Published on: 2025-06-24 04:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Despite Google I/O capturing as much attention as anticipated, some startups still took their chances and shared announcements this week, while others simply had to go with the flow when their news made headlines. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:OpenAI This week’s most interesting startup stories came from curre
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 12:22:47
Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Raise to Talk will let you summon a voice assistant with a flick of your wrist. Code related to the feature has been found in the leaked settings app from One UI Watch 8. The feature should be a part of Wear OS 6, which could be announced at The Android Show. Google I/O might not be until May 20, but Google’s kicking things off today with The Android Show, where Google’s announcing everything new that’s coming to our operating system of choice. Wear OS 6
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 20:10:52
Perplexity AI is in late-stage talks to raise $500 million at a $14 billion valuation, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to CNBC Monday. Accel, the Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, will lead the round, according to the source, who spoke anonymously because the round is not yet finalized. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the late-stage numbers. The funding is on the lower end of Perplexity's planned raise, which CNBC reported in March. During those early-stage talks,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 20:07:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week was busy for startups: While there were no IPOs of note, there were other exits and even unusual liquidity events, as well as a significant number of funding rounds of various sizes and stages. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Tim Robberts / Getty Images This week brought us M&As from serial buyers, an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 04:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week was low on M&A and IPO news, but there was still some drama to follow, if that’s your thing — and more importantly, some worthy startups getting funded. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images From frivolous to more serious, there was no shortage of legal startup developm
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 03:29:11
In Brief Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion, according to a new Bloomberg report that says talks are in the “early stages.” If successful, the deal would be the second-largest startup funding round ever, behind only OpenAI’s $40 billion raise last month. The funding could help alleviate X’s substantial debt burden, which is costing the company a whopping $200 million monthly in servi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 12:04:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week confirmed that deals can still happen in a troubled world, but price considerations and adjustments are now part of the picture. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Ather Energy Uncertain times are rarely good for M&As, which raises fears that tariff turmoil may have compromised the startup exit outlook fo
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After a sluggish couple of years, fintech appears to be making a comeback. In the first quarter of 2025, fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3 billion — marking the highest level of funding since the first quarter of 2023, according to CB Insights research. The average deal size of $17.7 million also marked the highest since 2021. Notably, several crypto-related startups are among those raising larger rounds in 2025, a reflection of renewed investor appetite in the space. But inve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 16:12:00
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “megaround,” and seven companies raised rounds $1 billion in size or larger. How will 2025 compare? It’s still the first half of the year, but so far it looks like 2024’s momentum will continue this year. There have already been multiple billion-dollar rounds this year, and mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 17:03:53
Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly VC-backed startup minted unicorns so far this year (as of the end of March). These include healthcare companies like Hippocratic AI and satellite space companies like Loft Orbital. This list will be updated throughout the year, so check back and see the powerhouses raising this year! March Fleetio — $1.5 billion: This Alab
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2025. Elon Musk is looking to put "proper value" on his artificial intelligence startup xAI, sources told CNBC's David Faber. The comments came during a call with xAI investors last week, sources familiar with the matter told Faber. While the Tesla CEO didn't explicitly address an upcoming funding round, the sources interpreted the comments as a sign that xAI is getting set up for a significan
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Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly VC-backed startup minted unicorns so far this year (as of the end of March). These include healthcare companies like Hippocratic AI and satellite space companies like Loft Orbital. This list will be updated throughout the year, so check back and see the powerhouses raising this year! March Fleetio — $1.5 billion: This Alab
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 20:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week brought us mixed messages. A fresh IPO filing, but a bleak outlook for exits overall. New funding rounds, but founders frustrated over lack of capital. And in the midst of it all, some VCs are still finding ways to create liquidity and raising funding for more bullish times. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Cred
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a “Raise to Talk” gesture for Wear OS smartwatches, which could seemingly allow users to trigger Google Assistant/Gemini by lifting their smartwatch. The feature appears similar to Apple’s Raise to Speak feature for triggering Siri on Apple Watches. This new gesture could join existing methods like the button press and the “Hey Google” hotword to trigger Google Assistant (and soon, Gemini). It could potentially also be a Pixel Watc
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a “Raise to Talk” gesture for Wear OS smartwatches, which could seemingly allow users to trigger Google Assistant/Gemini by lifting their smartwatch. The feature appears similar to Apple’s Raise to Speak feature for triggering Siri on Apple Watches. This new gesture could join existing methods like the button press and the “Hey Google” hotword to trigger Google Assistant (and soon, Gemini). It could potentially also be a Pixel Watc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-30 20:45:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. If there is one certainty in this uncertain moment, it’s this: U.S. tariff policy is likely to change again. As of Friday morning, there is a 90-day pause on “reciprocal” tariffs placed on most countries. However, 10% base tariffs remain and President Trump has ratcheted up tariffs against China to about
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-01 09:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startups aren’t isolated from the world. But this week, funding news felt positively uncorrelated from the overall news cycle, offering somewhat of a reprieve — or perhaps just more time to prepare to invest in “planetary and societal health,” as one new fund plans to. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Getty Images
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A customer checks Apple's latest iPhone 16 Plus (right) and Apple's latest iPhone 16 Pro Max (left) series displayed for sale at Master Arts Shop in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on September 26, 2024. President Trump's reciprocal tariffs could lead Apple to raise the price of the iPhone 16 Pro Max by as much as $350 in the U.S., UBS analysts estimated on Monday. The iPhone 16 Pro Max is Apple's highest-end iPhone on the market, and currently retails for $1,199. UBS is predicting a nearly 30% i
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Last year, funding into African startups edged past $2 billion, returning to pre-pandemic levels and presenting a mixed bag as expected. Signs suggest 2025 will follow the cautious trends of the past two years. A sharp decline in mega-deals, mirroring global venture capital tightening since the boom of 2020-2021, pushed local and international investors to prioritize sustainable business models and clear paths to profitability. This shift spelled trouble for well-funded startups that fell shor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-15 07:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week showed more optimism among startups than in other corners of the world, with entrepreneurs feeling confident enough to acquire other companies, raise fresh funding, and even say no to more money. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Hinge Health Not quite four weddings and a funeral, but almost. Hinged: Hi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-25 00:00:00
Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch. Three companies raised more than one “mega-round” last year, and seven companies raised rounds at $1 billion or larger. How will 2025 compare? It’s still early in the year but the number of U.S. AI companies that have raised more than $100 million is almost in double digits, and there has already been one
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-25 21:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Sometimes problems are just that: problems. But often, they are also fodder. This week brought us a mix of startups facing adversity, sometimes of their own doing, and others that are thriving. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Ramp / co-founders Karim Atiyeh, Eric Glyman, and Gene Lee Some startups racked up reve
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Despite clouds of uncertainty looming over the economy and geopolitics, people still want to travel. To meet that demand, Mews, an Amsterdam-founded ‘unicorn’ building an SaaS platform for hotel management, has raised a fresh $75 million. The funding is coming at a crossroad in the travel industry. On one hand are positive signals. Analysts at Oxford Economics forecast that the industry will grow by 12% this year, working out to 1.75 billion “arrivals.” And budget for travel equates to money f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 09:55:22
Despite the tight venture capital market, unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase, CB Insights, and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly minted unicorns so far this year. The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups. But cybersecurity, health tech, and fintech have also done well. This list will be updated throughout the year, so check back and see the powerhouses ra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 21:40:53
Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech companies hunger for power to train AI models and governments decide to commit to the industry. For example, X-energy raised $700 million this month, and Paris-based Newcleo raised $151 million last year, and one would be remiss to not mention the $700 million invested into Oklo, NuScale and Nano Nuclear for similar projects in the U.S. While nuclear fusion still looks relati
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