Peak XV Partners, the largest India-focused venture fund, has realized about $1.2 billion in exits since it separated from Sequoia last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
Marques Brownlee, also known as MKBHD, is a tech-focused content creator with nearly 20 million YouTube subscribers, renowned for his reviews of the latest gadgets. He has dunked on the…
Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experience of consuming food, and now one of the startups leading on this idea is attracting investors from…
When seed-focused Pear VC raised a $432 million fund last year, the firm co-founder Pejman Nozad said that it meant his firm had reached its “own product-market-fit.” That fourth fund…
OctoML CEO Luis Ceze. (Madrona Photo) OctoAI, a Seattle software startup that sells tools to help build and run generative AI models more efficiently, has been acquired by chipmaker giant…
Wish your PC booted up faster? Well, if you think your computer has a sluggish startup time, how about waiting the best part of a week for the machine to…
Unsurprisingly, AI companies dominated the day, with startups looking to apply the technology to problems like estate planning and automating clinical trial data. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
A major shakeup is in the works at OpenAI. reported that the artificial intelligence research company is restructuring its business from a non-profit board into a for-profit corporation. The publication…
Colette Courtion, Joylux founder and CEO, and award-winning actress and entrepreneur Halle Berry. (Joylux Photo) Joylux, a Seattle startup selling electronic devices that can help women improve their vaginal health,…
Enlarge (credit: style-photography | iStock / Getty Images Plus) Among the first AI companies that the Federal Trade Commission has exposed as deceiving consumers is DoNotPay—which initially was advertised as…
Screenshot: YouTube OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company, she announced on Wednesday. “I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan wants to bring the famed accelerator’s Demo Day presentations back as in-person events by the end of the year. During Tan’s opening remarks during Wednesday’s…
At its Meta Connect 2024 conference, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company’s developing a “neural interface” that can be used to control its prototypical Orion AR glasses. The…
The same dread we have in Seattle during a snow event can be evoked with a mention of the so-called “Seattle Freeze.” (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Nothing like…
Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open-source project that made building event-driven distributed applications easier for developers. Like so many popular open-source projects, Dapr spawned its own ecosystem,…
Toyota Ventures started in 2017 to help startups figure out what the future will look like, with an eye towards ensuring Toyota as an automaker and brand would stay at…
The Lord of the Rings is one of the biggest franchises in the world. The name is synonymous with success, and almost everything related to the series is well-received by…
The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn’t materialized. For the most part, the technology has instead enabled people to speculate on a new asset class. A big hurdle…
Radian Aerospace has moved one step closer to achieving the “holy grail” of spaceflight: a reusable space plane that can take-off from an airfield and land on a runway like…
Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business. But the pandemic supercharged the market. Covid pandemic…