TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is returning to San Francisco from October 13 to 15, and a limited-time promotion offers attendees a 50% discount on a second pass when purchasing one full-price ticket. The deal expires May 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT, giving prospective participants just two days to secure the savings. What the Promotion Includes The […]
ElevenLabs, the leading voice AI company, has revealed a prestigious list of new investors in its $500 million Series D fundraise, first announced in February. The round includes institutional giants like BlackRock, Wellington, D.E. Shaw, and Schroders, alongside strategic partners such as NVIDIA, Salesforce, Santander, KPN, and Deutsche Telekom. Individual investors now include actor Jamie […]
Anthropic is pushing toward a $900 billion valuation in its latest funding round. Sources familiar with the matter say the AI company expects the round to close within two weeks. Investors have just 48 hours to submit their allocations. Anthropic Valuation Soars Past $900 Billion Target TechCrunch reported that the round is expected to be […]
Crypto venture capital funding fell sharply in April, reaching its lowest monthly total in nearly two years as investors adopted a more cautious stance toward early-stage digital asset companies. According to data from CryptoRank, crypto VC funding totaled $659 million across 63 rounds in April, a 74% decline from the $2.6 billion raised across 84 […]
The crypto market saw a stark divergence in trends on May 1, 2026, as venture capital funding hit a near two-year low while the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market surged past $30 billion. Meanwhile, a new report from Latin American exchange Bitso reveals that stablecoins have overtaken Bitcoin as the most purchased digital asset in […]
San Francisco, April 20, 2026 — OpenAI’s latest moves look like standard tech acqui-hires on the surface. But a closer examination reveals they are tactical responses to fundamental pressures. The company recently acquired personal finance startup Hiro and new media company TBPN. According to analysis from TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, these small deals point to two […]
For startup founders, especially in artificial intelligence, recognizing the perfect moment to sell might be the most important skill they never wanted to learn. According to prominent investor Elad Gil, that moment is often shorter than anyone expects. In a recent podcast, Gil outlined his theory of the “12-month window”—a brief period where a company […]
In a major bet on the future of software development, AI coding startup Factory announced a $150 million funding round on April 16, 2026, catapulting its valuation to $1.5 billion. The investment, led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Blackstone, signals intense investor confidence in AI’s role in reshaping how […]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2026 – Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has a straightforward response to critics questioning the cloud giant’s massive, simultaneous investments in rival AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic: get used to it. Speaking at the HumanX conference this week, Garman framed Amazon’s recent $50 billion commitment to OpenAI—following an $8 billion […]
Singapore-based AI infrastructure company Firmus announced a massive $505 million funding round on April 7, 2026, catapulting its valuation to $5.5 billion. The investment, led by global technology hedge fund Coatue, marks one of the largest single raises for a data center specialist this year. This latest capital infusion brings Firmus’s total funding to $1.35 […]
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