Exclusive: H Company quietly acquires open-source AI agents startup

Secretive French AI startup H Company has quietly acquired Mithril Security, another Paris-based business, Sifted has…

AI sales tax startup Kintsugi has doubled its valuation in 6 months

Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has…

Accel leads $4m seed round in AI voice agent startup Solda.AI

Berlin-based AI voice agent startup Solda.AI has raised a $4m seed round led by Accel, with…

AI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 months

Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has…

Troubled startup CaaStle is now facing two new lawsuits and more allegations

CaaStle, the embattled fashion startup whose board of directors accused its founder, Christine Hunsicke, of financial…

Why Perfectionism Is Stalling Your Startup, and How to Rethink It

Workplace perfectionism, especially at startups, walks a fine line between valuable asset and destructive liability. While…

Aleph Alpha acquires AI text processing startup thingsThinking

German AI startup Aleph Alpha announced on Thursday it would acquire AI text-processing startup thingsThinking for…

Can this small European startup solve AGI?

At a panel earlier this month hosted by the European Commission, Mistral’s Audrey Herblin-Stoop, Peter Sarlin…

Evernote founder’s video startup mmhmm becomes Airtime, launches new products

Evernote founder Phil Libin is ready to liven up your video meetings. The entrepreneur’s video startup,…

Ethically trained AI startup Pleias releases new small reasoning models optimized for RAG with built-in citations

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Founders, apply for Startup Battlefield 200

Founders, the battlefield is open. And the bold are stepping forward. Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch…

British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries

Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is,…

Datadog acquires AI-powered observability startup Metaplane

Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Metaplane, an AI-powered…

$42.1 million poured into startup offering energy-efficient solutions for costly and unwieldy operational data and AI workloads

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Exclusive: Kindred Capital backs AI agents startup Cakewalk in $7.5m seed round

AI agents startup Cakewalk has raised a $7.5m seed round led by Kindred Capital and San…

Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup

As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest…

Crypto scams still targeting startup founders and investors

Secretly recorded footage of a scam in action reveals how phony investors conned a startup and…

Bezos-backed startup designed an EV that can change like a ‘Transformer’

Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of…

Bezos-backed EV startup pitched investors on ‘Transformer’-like customization

Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of…

Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere

Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that…

Trump EPA targets two-man geoengineering startup for ‘polluting the air’

Humans have found it hard to quit fossil fuels, which is why some argue that we’ll…

LatAm startups are winning big in Startup Battlefield

For startups around the world, the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield program offers unmatched exposure, credibility, and connections…