Published 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 “most favored nation
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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 — 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 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 “enhance AI safety, security, and responsible deployment,” as his fund’s website describes. He plans to write $100,000 checks as a safe, “pun intended,” he says, with a $10 m
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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 quarter’s 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: 2025-04-30 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: 2025-05-02 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: 2025-05-04 07:00:00
As the job market continues to get more competitive, it’s taking months for new grads to land employment, with many settling for roles that don’t 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
It’s been a couple of years since our last topic-focused, one-day event — but with AI transforming the tech landscape, we couldn’t miss the chance to gather 1,200 founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone shaping the future of AI for a deep dive into what’s 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 you’re building in tech and want to get smart on where the industry stand
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 23:30:00
Amazon started the Alexa Fund in 2015 to back early-stage voice startups. With the advent of large language models and Amazon launching Gen AI-powered Alexa+ along with a family of multimodal AI models, the fund now wants to broaden its scope and invest more in AI startups. In a blog post Amazon shared with TechCrunch ahead of publication, Alexa Fund leader Paul Bernard explained that the company now wants to invest in areas including AI-enabled hardware and smart agents. “While the Alexa Fund
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 02:00:00
As the year of the AI agent takes shape, a new trend is emerging: startups offering the picks and shovels that help employers build a workforce of bots. Manny Medina, best known as the founder and former CEO of the $4.4 billion valued sales automation company Outreach, just launched one such startup called Paid, he told TechCrunch exclusively. Paid doesn’t make AI agents. It offers a platform that makes sure they get paid, profitably. Paid announced Monday that it raised €10 million (about $
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 14:00:00
1. Access to mentorship and expertise One of the most valuable aspects of health tech accelerator programs is the access they provide to experienced mentors and industry experts. Health tech startups often face unique challenges, such as navigating complex health-care regulations, developing scalable technologies, and understanding the intricacies of health systems. Having mentors who have firsthand experience in these areas can provide critical guidance. These mentors often include clinicians
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 13:59:58
One of Silicon Valley’s most storied startup accelerators, Y Combinator, held its Winter 2025 Demo Day on Wednesday, showcasing what its latest batch of 160 startups are cooking up. Some of Silicon Valley’s most successful startups – including Stripe, AirBnB, and Reddit – started out in a YC batch. Today, YC’s newer startups are focused on building the next big thing in AI. In this batch, we noticed a surprising number of startups creating tools to enhance other companies’ AI agents. Rather tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 06:24:37
Silicon Valley has been captivated by the prospect of AI, not only as a productivity enhancer but also as a catalyst for creating successful companies with much leaner teams than in the past. Stories abound of AI startups quickly reaching tens of millions in revenue with headcount as low as 20 people. With less overhead, some startups may be inspired to take less venture capital funding, especially at the earliest stages. Terrence Rohan, an investor with Otherwise Fund who’s been investing in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 02:24:37
Silicon Valley has been captivated by the prospect of AI, not only as a productivity enhancer but also as a catalyst for creating successful companies with much leaner teams than in the past. Stories abound of AI startups quickly reaching tens of millions in revenue with headcount as low as 20 people. With less overhead, some startups may be inspired to take less venture capital funding, especially at the earliest stages. Terrence Rohan, an investor with Otherwise Fund who’s been investing in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 13:10:07
African venture capital firm Equator has raised $55 million for its first fund, which will back climate tech startups through one of the most difficult and often overlooked phases in their journey: the early stage. Climate tech startups in African countries have to navigate a tougher funding landscape than their counterparts in more developed economies, where governments often subsidize companies working on greener technologies. They have to instead rely heavily on development finance instituti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 08:00:49
Though the US stock market has officially lost its post-election Trump bump, some investors and tech founders still seem hyped on AI growth — at least in the short term — with tech companies like Broadcom surging ahead on the trading floor. That's good news for Google's cofounder Larry Page, who's reportedly launching a new AI startup called Dynatomics, according to The Information. Details on Dynatomics are scarce, but the centibillionaire has apparently hired a handful of engineers to work o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 00:05:00
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 15:00:17
One of Africa’s most active investors, known for early bets on unicorns like Flutterwave, Andela, and Wave, has secured fresh capital to invest in startups across the continent. This comes as funding deals and volumes in Africa saw only a slight dip last year, according to a report by VC firm Partech. LoftyInc Capital, which primarily backed startups at the pre-seed and seed stages for over a decade, has reached the first close of its third fund, LoftyInc Alpha, at $43 million. Unlike its earl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 01:27:44
Venture investment in startups run by women has always lagged the overall market, and with companies across sectors cutting back on their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, things seem grimmer than ever for female founders. But the data tells a different tale for 2024 — at least according to this one report by European venture platform Female Foundry: Venture investment to startups founded by women in Europe declined 12% in 2024 from a year earlier, but it was nearly in line with the 11%
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 14:20:04
Larry Ellison is probably best known for being the founder and CEO of Oracle and a close confidant of President Trump. But he’s also spent years quietly building a vertical farming startup. And after a lot of time and nearly $500 million in investment, the company is still struggling to take off, with its early indoor farms likened to more of a DIY project than something that has received nearly half a billion dollars in capital. The Wall Street Journal has a new story detailing all the problem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 04:00:00
“True circularity has to start with raw materials,” says Peña. “We talk about circularity across many industries, but for textiles, we must address what we’re using at the source.” Engineered from recombinant DNA, SELPs are copycat proteins inspired by silk and elastin that can be customized for qualities like tensile strength, dye affinity, and elasticity. Silk’s amino acid sequences—like glycine-alanine and glycine-serine—give fibers strength, while elastin’s molecular structure adds stretchi
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