Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’
Investment in consumer tech startups has been in a downturn since 2022, as a turbulent macroeconomic climate and rising inflation hav...
Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back
Over the past few days, several posts on LinkedIn and Twitter/X went viral after one of the most talked about AI companies in San Francisco...
Shopify competitor Swap raises $100M six months after raising $40M
VC firms DST Global and Iconiq are piling into the London- and New York-based e-commerce startup Swap Commerce. On Wednesday the startup an...
How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge
Smart home startup Quilt introduced a three-zone heat pump on Tuesday that promises to maintain efficiency even in the kinds of demanding c...
McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over
If there is one point of consensus among the CES 2026 keynote speakers, it is that AI is reshaping technology with a speed and scale unlike...
LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product
LMArena, a startup that originally launched as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, announced on Tuesday that it raised a $150 million S...
Can a social app fix the ‘terrible devastation’ of social media?
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have raised new funding for their social media startup West Co. The start...
Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments
No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocket...
The 16 top logistics, manufacturing, materials startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200...
Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable
Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmer...