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Startups

Silkroad Innovation Hub’s Road to Battlefield competition continues | TechCrunch

The Road to Battlefield competition, organized by Silkroad Innovation Hub in partnership with TechCrunch, Freedom Holding, Astana Hub,...

Blacksmith
AI

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year | TechCrunch

As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all...

Yulu electric scooters
Transportation

India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand | TechCrunch

As India’s quick-commerce platforms race to deliver everything from groceries to smartphones in minutes, electric mobility startup Yulu...

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Climate

Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device | TechCrunch

In the fusion power world, most of the attention gets lavished on the reactors themselves, where atoms fuse...

Discovered Materials founders Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas
AI

Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips | TechCrunch

Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and...

In Brief

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide | TechCrunch

NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working on ChatGPT.The NextSlide...

TechCrunch Disrupt Builders Stage
Startups

Today’s the last day to get up to $400 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket | TechCrunch

Let’s cut to the chase: Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off of our current $300...

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Startups

Host your own piece of Disrupt: Apply to run a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13–15, but some of the...

An audience member asks a question at the 2025 TechCrunch Disrupt event
Startups

The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI...

Conceptual image of a robotic arm holding a wrench.
Startups

Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company | TechCrunch

Developers detest drudgery. The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate...