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Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-29 08:30:00

With over 400 million chronic patients, India is one of the world’s largest medicine markets. But while most e-pharmacies chase speed, affordability remains the real challenge. Truemeds took a different route: helping patients switch to lower-cost substitutes, a bet now paying off with new funding at about four times its previous valuation. The six-year-old startup has raised $85 million in a new round that includes $65 million in primary and $20 million in secondary funding led by Accel, along

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High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-02 15:05:01

In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, at double the valuation it hit six months earlier, sources told TechCrunch at the time. That deal didn’t happen, according to a source familiar with the matter. Instead, news broke in April that the startup planned to sell itself to OpenAI for roughly the same valuation: $3 billion. While that deal famously fell apart, one bigger question remains: If the startup was

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What It’s Like To Work at a Startup: Insights From Startup Professionals

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-06 12:00:47

For computing professionals, startups offer something few corporate roles can provide. They give you the chance to build cutting-edge technology, gain equity, and work at a pace big companies can’t match. Nearly a quarter of North American startups are in the tech and communications sector, so these opportunities are abundant. [1] But what is the day-to-day reality behind the promise? We polled IEEE Computer Society members to get the real scoop. Here’s a sneak peek into what you can expect. Wh

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Final call: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 ticket savings end tonight

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-07 00:00:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 marks 20 years of shaping the startup world — and tonight’s your last chance to save up to $675 on your ticket. From October 27–29, Disrupt returns to Moscone West in San Francisco. Join 10,000+ tech innovators, founders, VCs, and ecosystem builders for three days of high-impact programming, networking, and startup energy. But first: your savings. You have until 11:59 p.m. PT tonight to save up to $675. Once the clock strikes midnight, prices jump. Register now. Why yo

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Only 2 days left to save $675 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 ticket

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-09 15:00:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 marks 20 years of driving the startup world forward — and you’ve got just two days left to join the movement and save up to $675 on your ticket. From October 27–29, Moscone West becomes the home base for over 10,000 movers and makers in the tech world. Join us in San Francisco as we celebrate two decades of startup breakthroughs, VC connections, and industry-shifting ideas. The deadline to lock in savings is August 6 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Don’t wait — register now to save b

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Where to find ideas

news.ycombinator.com Rob Snyder 2025-12-10 05:37:15

Starting to fill up for Q3 - get my help setting up & debugging your pre-PMF sales / GTM! More info HERE, my Calendly is HERE. — There are two kinds of people in startupland who bother me more than just about anyone: The get-rich-quick influencer who says things like: “You can literally just prompt AI to find underserved niches and build a profitable AI startup.” The academic who hasn’t built anything, yet feels comfortable telling you to use their complicated startup framework to find and va

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Uzbekistan’s first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-10 12:00:00

At a time when the world feels increasingly divided between East and West, Uzbekistan has emerged as a rare middle ground, as the Central Asian nation’s homegrown unicorn, Uzum, has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China’s Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital. The all-equity round brings the Tashkent-headquartered startup’s post-money valuation to approximately $1.5 billion — a nearly 30% jump from the $1

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Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-10 10:30:00

Indian startup Jeh Aerospace founders Vishal Sanghavi and Venkatesh Mudragalla have had a front row seat to the commercial aircraft sector and its growing production bottleneck. The two former Tata Group executives spent close to two decades in different positions at the company and worked on projects that included participation from global aerospace companies, including Boeing, Sikorsky, and Lockheed Martin. Now, armed with $11 million in Series A funding, the pair are working to ease global

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Foxconn sells former GM factory to mystery buyer after failing to make EVs

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-11 15:43:02

Foxconn has sold the former GM factory it has owned for three years after failing to stand up any meaningful, large-scale electric vehicle production there. The pivot marks the second major failure of Foxconn to deliver on its promises to help revive U.S. manufacturing. The iPhone-maker once promised to build a giant LCD factory in Wisconsin — a project that Donald Trump called the “eighth wonder of the world” during his first term — and wound up underdelivering to an extreme degree. Foxconn s

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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-11 20:51:25

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites, according to a report from Cloudflare. In the report, Cloudflare claims that when Perplexity encounters a block, the startup wi

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Legal AI startup Harvey hits $100 million in annual recurring revenue

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-12 15:00:01

Artificial intelligence startup Harvey on Monday announced it has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue, or ARR, just three years after its launch. Harvey runs an AI-powered legal platform for lawyers at law firms and large corporations. Its technology can help with legal research, drafting and diligence projects, and the company is also building industry-specific use cases. Winston Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of Harvey, said the startup's ARR milestone has largely been driven by u

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New IVF Startup Claims It Can Predict an Embryo's IQ

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-12 18:30:17

The 21st century has seen startups rise from a relatively niche business approach to a multi-trillion-dollar phenomenon. Between 2021 and 2023, startups generated an estimated $7.6 trillion in global value. From 2019 to 2023 — a rocky period for the economy overall — the number of startups in the US still increased by 16 percent. But with all that success comes a whole lotta risk. It's estimated that over two-thirds of startups fail to deliver a positive return to investors. Many fail before th

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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret emergency shutdown feature - here's how to use it

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-13 20:28:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Usually, whenever a new feature comes out for Windows, Microsoft advertises it widely in a blog post to let everyone know. Or if they don't, people discover the feature soon after an update. However, a helpful feature sometimes slips through the cracks, only to be unearthed years later. Also: Hate Windows 11? Here's how you can make it work more like Windows 10 That was my reaction when I found this obscure Emergency Restart method for Windows 11 after stumbling across a post

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Google bets on STAN, an Indian social gaming platform

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-14 05:05:45

Google has backed STAN, an Indian social gaming platform that connects gamers with creators, communities, and publishers. Google’s investment comes as part of an $8.5 million equity funding round, which also saw investment from Japanese gaming giants Bandai Namco Entertainment, Square Enix, and Reazon Holdings. Aptos Labs and King River Capital, as well as existing backers General Catalyst and GFR Fund, also participated. Google joined the round via its AI Futures Fund, which launched in May to

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Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M+ to build AI agents across verticals

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-14 15:15:00

Applied AI research company Fundamental Research Labs (formerly known as Altera) announced today that it has raised $33 million in Series A funding led by Prosus with participation from Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison. The company has a curious structure as it is working on multiple AI applications in different fields. When it raised its seed funding, Fundametal Research Labs was developing bots that could play Minecraft with you. Today, the company has a games team, a prosumer team

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Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-12-15 16:00:00

Paying with a handwave once sounded like science fiction, but contactless palm recognition service Amazon One has already been used more than 8 million times, according to the company. That’s Amazon, though, which explains why it has been deployed in Amazon stores and more than 500 Whole Foods Market stores in the U.S., but only 150 third-party locations. Meanwhile, fintech startups like Latvia’s Handwave are stepping onto the field, aiming to provide third-party retailers with a similar but in

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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret restart method - here's how to access it

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-19 20:35:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Usually, whenever a new feature comes out for Windows, Microsoft advertises it widely in a blog post to let everyone know. Or if they don't, people discover the feature soon after an update. However, a helpful feature sometimes slips through the cracks, only to be unearthed years later. Also: Hate Windows 11? Here's how you can make it work more like Windows 10 That was my reaction when I found this obscure Emergency Restart method for Windows 11 after stumbling across a post

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Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 05:54:02

Hi HN, we’re Abhinav, Andy, and Jeremy, and we’re building Lucidic AI ( https://dashboard.lucidic.ai ), an AI agent interpretability tool to help observe/debug AI agents. Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/Zvoh1QUMhXQ. Getting started is easy with just one line of code. You just call lai.init() in your agent code and log into the dashboard. You can see traces of each run, cumulative trends across sessions, built-in or custom evals, and grouped failure modes. Call lai.create_step() with any metad

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Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-21 10:55:38

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the Protected Tactical Satcom program to build out secure battlefield communications via satellites. The Space Force has already awarded contracts to defense primes Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop prototype payloads for satellites heading to far-away geostationary orbit. Now, the program is entering a

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Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-21 10:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering programs

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-21 22:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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The Secret Stanford Program No One's Heard About

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-22 04:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Food delivery service Calo scores $39M in Series B extension as it sets eyes on the UK

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-22 14:35:57

Middle Eastern food delivery startup Calo said Tuesday it has raised $39 million in a Series B extension that was led by Aljazira Capital. The fundraise, which was more than 1.5x of its original $25 million raise in December, also saw participation from existing backers such as Nuwa Capital, STV, Khwarizmi Ventures, and Al Faisaliah Group. The company is using this funding to expand into territories like the U.K. and to explore different partnerships in physical space. Calo primarily offers re

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Golden Dome may not be the golden ticket Silicon Valley is hoping for

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-23 05:00:00

Golden Dome, the Trump administration’s gambit to build a next-generation missile defense system, has startups and longstanding defense contractors preparing to duke it out for a piece of a $151 billion multi-year contract. The process to qualify for the $151 billion contract vehicle, essentially an umbrella program, is stacked against most startups – not because of their tech. Instead, smaller companies may be thwarted by a multi-layered, expensive bureaucratic process used to ensure a company

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Food delivery service Calo scores $39 million in Series B extension as it sets eyes on the UK

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-24 02:35:57

Middle Eastern food delivery startup Calo said Tuesday it has raised $39 million in a Series B extension that was led by AlJazira Capital. The fundraise, which was more than 1.5x of its original $25 million raise in December, also saw participation from existing backers such as Nuwa Capital, STV, Khwarizmi Ventures, and Al Faisaliah Group. The company is using this funding to expand into territories like the UK and also explore different partnerships in physical space. Calo primarily offers re

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AI data analyst startup Julius nabs $10M seed round

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-24 00:42:48

Julius AI, a startup that describes itself as an AI data analyst, announced it has raised a $10 million seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Horizon VC, 8VC, Y Combinator, the AI Grant accelerator participated in the round along with several high-profile angel investors, including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, among others. Founder Rahul Sonwalkar launched Julius after graduating from Y Combinator in 2022, and pivoting a

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Do startups still need Silicon Valley? Hear from the founders and funders challenging old assumptions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-26 00:30:00

As the startup world descends on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — happening October 27–29 at Moscone West — one question looms large: does building in Silicon Valley still give founders an edge? With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders gathering for this milestone Disrupt, the conversation around access, geography, and opportunity has never been more timely. On the Builders Stage, Anh-Tho Chuong (Lago), Davice Hall (Revolution), and Heather Doshay (SignalFire) lead a must-attend session f

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AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-26 10:45:41

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat Would you work 72 hour weeks? All Work, No Play Say a little prayer for AI workers in Silicon Valley. In the rush to conquer the AI sector, some startups have adopted a career schedule known as "996" — a draconian work regimen that first took hold in mainland China, according to Wired, in which employees work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week, for a total of a soul-crushing 72 hours. That's obvious

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Upsides and Downsides

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 08:23:09

Every startup founder knows about Geoffrey Moore's concept of "crossing the chasm"–that you have to change your marketing and sales approach as you gain marketshare fit a more conservative buyer. But most fail to internalize what crossing the chasm means when it comes to their product. I recently stumbled upon Adam Mastroanni's post on strong-link problems, and realized that it's the perfect framework for thinking about this shift. In essence, Adam says there are two types of problems: strong-

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Former Y Combinator, a16z experts hold invite-only summit for founders

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-01-02 10:50:21

On August 9, the people who previously ran startup incubator Y Combinator’s events and PR, along with a former Andreessen Horowitz social media manager, are holding a small, invitation-only event, TechCrunch has learned. The To Do List Summit will cap off at 80 early-stage founders and will teach them how to work with the press and run their own social media, the organizers promise. The fee for the event is $600. YC laid off most of the folks putting on this event between a small layoff about

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Legal AI startup Harvey hits $100 million in annual recurring revenue

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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret emergency shutdown feature - here's how to use it

Google bets on STAN, an Indian social gaming platform

Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M+ to build AI agents across verticals

Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments

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Food delivery service Calo scores $39M in Series B extension as it sets eyes on the UK

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Food delivery service Calo scores $39 million in Series B extension as it sets eyes on the UK

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Do startups still need Silicon Valley? Hear from the founders and funders challenging old assumptions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

Upsides and Downsides

Former Y Combinator, a16z experts hold invite-only summit for founders

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