Published on: 2025-04-19 02:13:04
Hey, I'm Aziz đ A software engineer with a passion for building tools that empower creators and entrepreneurs. Like many founders, I used to get stuck at the very beginning. Turning an idea into something real always felt overwhelming, and that led to a lot of unfinished projects. To solve this, I built StarterPilot, an AI-powered web app that helps you go from idea to launch in minutes. It validates your startup concept, generates a name and logo, and even builds a landing page using intell
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 07:15:17
Techstars, a nearly 20-year-old startup accelerator, announced new terms for startups that enter its three-month program. The organization will now invest $220,000, which is $100,000 more than it offered previously, in companies starting with its fall 2025 batch. The capital will be divided into two components. The group is offering companies $20,000 in exchange for 5% ownership in the business. Startups will also receive $200,000 in the form of an uncapped SAFE note with a âmost favored nation
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 11:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility â your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free â just click TechCrunch Mobility! Enough with my typical small talk. Letâs jump into the news right away this week. And thereâs plenty of it, including Lyftâs entry into Europe, AV startup Nuro heading to Japan, the first drive of the Lucid Gravity SUV, a few New York International Auto Show highlights, and a SPAC. Yes, the SPAC is back. Or did this financial inst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 23:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly â your weekly recap of everything you canât 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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 07:00:00
For startups around the world, the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield program offers unmatched exposure, credibility, and connections to scale their businesses. TechCrunch has long been committed to spotlighting companies solving real-world problems in scalable and sustainable ways â making it a powerful launchpad for startups both in and outside the U.S. Several Latin American startups have thrived in this environment. Tackling critical challenges in their regions with bold, innovative solutions,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 02:05:45
Almost three decades after it first hit print, Hisao Tamakiâs legendary interpretation of A New Hope is getting new life as part of a luxurious new artbook celebrating Star Warsâ history with Japanese comics. io9 can exclusively reveal that during Star Wars Celebration Japan today, Dark Horse confirmed that The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope â The Manga will launch as a two-volume collection next year, spotlighting Tamakiâs iconic artwork from newly acquired scans of Tamakiâs original storyboards
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:33:28
Geoff Ralston, well-known in the startup community for his years at Y Combinator, is back in the formal investing ring, he announced Thursday. His new fund is called Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund, or SAIF, which is both an explanation of its thesis and a play on words. Ralston is specifically looking for startups that âenhance AI safety, security, and responsible deployment,â as his fundâs website describes. He plans to write $100,000 checks as a safe, âpun intended,â he says, with a $10 m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 03:45:13
If thereâs one thing my therapist can tell you about me (and wasnât legally obligated to not say anything about her clients), itâs that Iâm am terrified to ask anyone for help for any reason whatsoever. God forbid I inconvenience anyone for even a few seconds. So if I ever find myself returning to my car in a parking lot to find that my car wonât start, well, I guess I just live in that parking lot now. Thatâs at least what my mentality was before I got an emergency jump starter. The Gooloo GP40
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 11:55:11
Phones and electronics arenât the only things that people are rushing to buy before the dreaded tariff tax hits, thanks to the Trump administrationâs ongoing trade war with the world. According to research from Cox Automotive, the supply of new and used vehicles is starting to dwindle as consumers rush to secure a car before the price tag skyrockets. The analysis shows that the supply of new vehicles on the market, calculated by using an estimated daily sales rate, crashed from 91 days in March
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 23:50:55
Startups attracted $91.5 billion in venture capital funding in Q1, according to the latest report from data provider PitchBook. This figure not only exceeds the previous quarterâs allocation by 18.5% but also represents the second-highest quarterly investment in the last decade. Despite this seemingly positive news, Kyle Stanford, lead U.S. venture capital analyst at PitchBook, appears to be the most bearish about VC dealmaking since he started covering this market 11 years ago. The source of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 07:06:40
Former Y Combinator startup telli is helping companies alleviate the bottleneck that occurs when a high-volume of customers try to, for example, book appointments. Its AI voice agents kick in and handle basic operations while handing off more-complex processes to human operators. The Berlin-based startup has now raised $3.6 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Berlinâs Cherry Ventures and Y Combinator. Telli says its AI voice agents can perform a number of tasks, including automated callb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 03:00:01
An Adobe sign hangs along Main Street during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, 2025 in Park City, Utah. LONDON â Adobe has invested in Synthesia, a British artificial intelligence startup, in a bet that the technology will transform video production. Synthesia told CNBC that Adobe's venture capital arm injected an undisclosed amount of funds into the startup as part of a "strategic" partnership, without elaborating further on financial and commercial terms. The startup, which says i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 03:59:49
U.K. startup Marshmallow has blown up over the years by using innovations in data science to build car insurance policies for immigrants and other consumers who have been overlooked or priced out of traditional insurance. Now, with a million drivers insured and a profitable annual revenue run rate of $500 million, Marshmallow has raised a fresh $90 million to expand. Marshmallow plans to use the funding to move into financial services, as well as more insurance products that it hopes will appea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 03:00:00
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging to perform precise tasks, handle delicate materials, and adjust to changing conditions â a robot in a restaurantâs kitchen would get in the way more
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 07:01:05
Finland's bid to win Europe's start-up crown 60 minutes ago Share Save Maddy Savage BBC News, Helsinki Share Save Maria 01 Maria 01 plans to become the biggest start-up campus in Europe Yellow diggers are shoring up mounds of earth, as construction workers prepare to lay the foundations for what's set to become the largest start-up campus in Europe. The project is an expansion of Maria 01, a co-working and event space for entrepreneurs and investors, as well as larger corporations that want t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 11:54:44
Microsoft warned IT admins that some Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (DCs) might become inaccessible after a restart, causing apps and services to fail or remain unreachable. As the company explained, this is caused by the servers loading the standard firewall profile instead of the domain firewall ones after rebooting. "Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (such as servers hosting the Active Directory domain controller role) might not manage network traffic correctly following a rest
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 07:00:03
Apple released iOS 18.4 on March 31, and that update brought your iPhone new emoji and a new recipes section in Apple News. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, that update made some improvements in its Maps app, which now lets you plan a walking, running or hiking route. Creating a custom route is great for planning a hike or other outdoor activities, and it can keep you on track so you don't get lost. This feature can also tell you how far a custom route is, as well as what your eleva
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 15:32:01
Google held its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week, where it announced dozens of new features like its next generation AI processing chip, called Ironwood, and its latest AI model Gemini 2.5 Flash. It also announced a long list of AI startups that have signed to use its cloud. Among them are some of the most watched startups in the world. As we previously reported, this list includes Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup founded by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scienti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 22:59:58
A new ship-building startup called Blue Water Autonomy has emerged from stealth with the promise of developing captain-less naval ships. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company has raised a $14 million seed round from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Impatient Ventures. The startup was founded in 2024 by former members of the U.S. Navy, leaders of Amazon Robotics, and iRobot. Blue Water Autonomy joins an ever-growing list of startups that are taking advantage of a splurge in defense investment. Defense t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:58:19
A VIX volatility index chart on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Federal Reserve officials held their benchmark interest rate steady for a second straight meeting, though they telegraphed expectations for slower economic growth and higher inflation. Photographer: Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Already under pressure amid last week's multitrillion-dollar stock market rout, the venture capital industry now faces an even tough
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 12:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly â your weekly recap of everything you canât miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startups arenât isolated from the world. But this week, funding news felt positively uncorrelated from the overall news cycle, offering somewhat of a reprieve â or perhaps just more time to prepare to invest in âplanetary and societal health,â as one new fund plans to. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Getty Images
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 11:02:53
Just one day after TechCrunch revealed that Jeff Bezos is backing a secretive EV startup called Slate Auto, an early version of the companyâs low-cost electric pickup truck was spotted in the wild. Reddit user u/discostranger09 posted a photo to the r/whatisthiscar subreddit on Wednesday of a small, dark gray, two-seater pickup truck on a flatbed. The user said it was being offloaded from a container outside their office in the Los Angeles area. The photo was first reported by automotive outlet
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 07:00:00
As the job market continues to get more competitive, itâs taking months for new grads to land employment, with many settling for roles that donât align with their goals. To address this problem, Drafted, a new startup emerging from stealth, has built a jobs platform for students and early-career professionals, a subset of people who Drafted thinks is ignored by services like LinkedIn, Handshake, and Indeed. Drafted uses AI and video resumes to match candidates with jobs, going beyond the typica
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:00:00
Itâs been a couple of years since our last topic-focused, one-day event â but with AI transforming the tech landscape, we couldnât miss the chance to gather 1,200 founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone shaping the future of AI for a deep dive into whatâs next. On June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley, TechCrunch Sessions: AI lands right at the intersection of startups and the rapidly evolving AI boom. If youâre building in tech and want to get smart on where the industry stand
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:00:00
Legal tech has come a long way, but the bulk of an intellectual property or patent lawyerâs work today is still done with spreadsheets, word processors and PDFs. A startup out of Delaware, Solve Intelligence, is using generative AI to speed up that work, believing its tech is uniquely suited to the needs of patent attorneys who need both domain expertise and legal knowledge to do their work. Solve offers an in-browser document editor that works like Google Docs but is powered by an AI model to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 15:22:03
Windows 11 has become so synonymous with Microsoft's push into generative AI that it's easy to forget that it originally launched as a mostly cosmetic overhaul of Windows 10. But Microsoft continues to work on fundamental elements of the operating system's design. Case in point, Windows tester phantomofearth enabled an overhauled version of the Start menu from a recent Windows 11 beta build, the menu's first substantial rethink since Windows 11 launched a little over three years ago (via The Ver
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 15:00:00
Founders, the battlefield is calling! Startup Battlefield 200 applications are now live â and the race has begun. If youâve got a groundbreaking idea and the guts to pitch it to the world, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is your arena. Youâll face elite VC judges. Youâll compete against 199 of the worldâs most promising startups. And youâll fight for $100,000 equity-free â plus a level of global exposure that can change everything. Enter the arena: Submit your application Thousands will apply; 200 w
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is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is working on a new Windows 11 Start menu design thatâs bigger and more customizable than what exists today. Windows watcher phantomofearth discovered the new design in recent builds of Windows 11, where the updated Start menu has a larger layout and finally lets you disable the recommended feed of files and apps. The recommended feed had been a major pain point for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 11:45:00
Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET The Windows 11 Start menu has annoyed many people with its clumsy layout and lack of customization. Instead of enhancing and improving the previous menu designs from Windows 7 and 10, Microsoft opted for a backward redesign that left many of us wondering, "What were they thinking?" Hit by user complaints, Microsoft has taken baby steps to try to improve the menu. One option added in late 2022 lets you create folders in which to store your Start menu shortcuts.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 14:34:00
Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET The Windows 11 Start menu has annoyed many people with its clumsy layout and lack of customization. Instead of enhancing and improving the previous menu designs from Windows 7 and 10, Microsoft opted for a backward redesign that left many of us wondering, "What were they thinking?" Hit by user complaints, Microsoft has taken baby steps to try to improve the menu. One option added in late 2022 lets you create folders in which to store your Start menu shortcuts.
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