French biotech startup Generare has closed a €5 million seed round (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) to step up development of what it touts as a highly scalable…
General Catalyst, one of Silicon Valley’s largest capital firms, is gearing up to launch what’s known as a “continuation fund” worth between $800 million and $1 billion, according to a…
Venture capital firm NFX laid off four employees in September as the firm looks to “rebalance” its resources from its software and product teams to its investing team, general partner…
Swedish firm ZeroPoint Technologies, a spin-off from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, was founded by Professor Per Stenström and Dr. Angelos Arelakis with the goal of delivering efficient real-time…
A Chinese startup has combined a mini-PC and a folding keyboard creating a unique portable productivity device. Source
The U.S. Department of Justice says bankrupt EV startup Fisker’s plan to make owners pay for labor costs related to multiple recalls is illegal, according to a new filing. The…
Kobold Metals has raised $491 million of a targeted $527 million round, which could value the company at over $2 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
Stockholm-based Lovable has raised $7.5mn in pre-seed funding for its newly-launched AI coding assistant that promises to make everyone a dev. Dubbed GPT Engineer, the AI coding tool generates production-ready code…
It doesn’t simply take a village to raise a startup. It takes a whole ecosystem, driven by the collaboration between governments, corporates, ecosystem builders — and of course, visionary founders.…
Fledgling fintech startup OpenBB is revealing the next step in its plans to take on the heavyweights of the investment research world. The company is launching a new, free version…
A few months ago, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games to create a persistent universe for its franchises in Fortnite, one of the most popular online games. The Verge…
The next generation of New York City investors are already making their mark in the Big Apple. They come from big-name venture firms like Female Founders Fund and Lerer Hippeau…
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s $6.6 billion fundraising round, the fifth Cybertruck recall in less than a year, and a neat project that’s…
The past week hasn’t been the kindest to the electric vehicle industry. Now, it’s capped off with news that the EV startup Fisker is the subject of an investigation from…
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Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Bankrupt EV startup Fisker is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a new filing from the financial regulator. The SEC says in the filing it…
Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We’ll talk to some of the brightest minds and leaders in the industry — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS companies,…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, which takes place from October 28-30 at Moscone West in San Francisco, is rapidly approaching. Today we’re thrilled to announce the 200 startups selected to participate in…
This one's nasty — in one of the more high-profile, macabre incidents involving AI-generated content in recent memory, Character.AI, the chatbot startup founded by ex-Google staffers, was pushed to delete…