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TechCrunch Startup News
Published by TechCrunchHosted by Steve White
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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Oct16Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis; plus, Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they eruptOct 16, 2026Oct15Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligenceOct 15, 2026Oct14Niobia takes the guesswork out of some of tech’s most expensive mistakes; Giraffe Bio aims its bespoke biomolecules at the looming copper shortageOct 14, 2026Oct13Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company; plus, WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contractOct 13, 2026Oct12Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis; plus, Petra Power looks to modernize energy for data centersOct 12, 2026Oct9A startup founder who served time in prison is looking to court an untapped market: ex-consOct 9, 2026Oct8Greenairy is building smart plant towers to clean the air in your office; plus, Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from SequoiaOct 8, 2026Oct7Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet; plus, name Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform MeliusOct 7, 2026Oct6Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era; plus, after Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly investsOct 6, 2026Oct5Photon held a funeral for mobile apps; plus, Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startupOct 5, 2026Oct2World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months; plus, turning idle car inventory into rental revenueOct 2, 2026Oct1Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for CognitionOct 1, 2026Sep30Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot; plus, EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4BSep 30, 2026Sep29AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion; Physical AI chip developer SiMa AI hits $1.45B valuationSep 29, 2026Sep28Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140MSep 28, 2026Sep25Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting; plus, Feather is building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developersSep 25, 2026Sep24Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely; plus, PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in CanadaSep 24, 2026Sep23a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school; plus, AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraftSep 23, 2026Sep22A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offlineSep 22, 2026Sep18Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and complianceSep 18, 2026Sep17Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel; plus, Hang Ten Systems nabbed another $53mSep 17, 2026Sep16Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents; plus, health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuationSep 16, 2026Sep15Superhuman acquired notetaker Fathom; plus, OpenAI bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging, and AI infrastructure company Cornelis raised $205MSep 15, 2026Sep14Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world; plus, Mecka AI nears $500M valuation amid rush for robot training dataSep 14, 2026Sep11Defense tech Mach Industries doubled its valuation in 3 months; plus, Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment dealSep 11, 2026Sep10CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks; plus, Sequoia doubles down on CymphonySep 10, 2026Sep9Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch; plus, Poseidon Aerospace eyes first pilotless test flight, and Stoke Space raises another billionSep 9, 2026Sep8Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business; plus, Krafton doubles down on IndiaSep 8, 2026Sep7Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race; plus, Qualcomm backs UltrahumanSep 7, 2026Sep6Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in BostonSep 6, 2026