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Fundraising

Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform | TechCrunch

The customer support industry has seen a massive influx of startups like Sierra, Decagon, and Parloa trying to...

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Startups

Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships | TechCrunch

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement...

Kevin A. Damoa, Founder & CEO, Glīd, Claire Kroft and Ankit Malhotra, winners of the Startup Battlefield 2025, pose onstage during day three of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone Center on October 29, 2025 in San Francisco, California.
Startups

Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia | TechCrunch

The applications are in. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions. Eight Australian startups have earned their...

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AI

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks | TechCrunch

Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark...

A rice farmer in Mitti Labs Andhra Pradesh AWD program
Climate

Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient | TechCrunch

As rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns put Asia’s water-intensive rice farming under pressure, Mitti Labs, a New...

Cognition founder and CEO Scott Wu
In Brief

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation | TechCrunch

Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly already talking to investors about raising another funding...

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AI

Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch

By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the...

Rendering of Hadrian's planned third facility in Mesa, AZ.
In Brief

Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation | TechCrunch

Defense tech Hadrian announced on Thursday that it had raised a fresh $1.37 billion round at a valuation of...

AI

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom | TechCrunch

The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom...

Startups

Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B | TechCrunch

Loading the player…Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or...