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Investors have poured billions into AI companies in recent years as the technology continues to dominate the Valley and consequently the world. But not all AI…
Weeks after stepping down as CEO of food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal is back with a $54 million raise…
On June 9, over 1,000 founders, investors and decision makers will gather TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. This isn’t just foot traffic. It’s a full day of…
A VC and some big-name developers are trying to solve the open source funding problem, permanently
By techtost.com
A group of notable open source developers team up with a VC investor to launch a non-profit company called Open Source Endowment in hopes of finally…
Dakota Rice returns as founder. On Wednesday, he announced that his new company, native AI insurance brokerage Harper, has raised $46.8 million in a combined Series…
Anthropic on Wednesday was announced that it has acquired Vercept, an artificial intelligence startup with deep roots in some of the biggest names in the Seattle…
You are not attending TechCrunch Disrupt to sit in the audience. You go to gain leverage. Whether 2026 is a build year, fundraising year, hire year…
Quantum computing will not replace supercomputers in 2026, let alone reach industrial scale. And yet, investors’ appetite for companies that pursue the elusive quantum advantage it…
Bill Gurley says right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe
By techtost.com
For nearly three decades, Bill Gurley has been one of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley—a general partner at Benchmark whose early bets on companies…
For the most sought-after founders, the prestige of a top accelerator is increasingly weighed against giving up a significant ownership stake in their company. Ali Partovi,…