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A fire rages in a kitchen.
Climate

Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic | TechCrunch

For over a century, fire protection has been limited to water and chemicals. And while they can prevent...

Terra Industries drone in flight
In Brief

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South | TechCrunch

African defense tech company Terra Industries on Monday announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed...

Stripe logo
In Brief

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch

Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg.OpenRouter helps customers select...

Cursor
In Brief

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition | TechCrunch

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on the Cursor...

Plasma flows through an illustration of a tokamak fusion reactor.
Climate

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M | TechCrunch

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade...

Kog CEO Gaël Dellalleau at AMD AI Dev Day
AI

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs | TechCrunch

The race for faster AI inference is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips a warm...

Selena Gomez
In Brief

Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup | TechCrunch

Singer and actress Selena Gomez and her mother are being sued over their mental health startup, Wondermind. The...

Neko Health co-founders, Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek,
In Brief

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York | TechCrunch

Neko Health’s promised U.S. expansion arrives on September 24, when the health-scanning startup opens its first American office....

Ali Ghodsi
Startups

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. | TechCrunch

There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They...

Erik de Winter (CCO), Pieter Van de Velde (CEO), Alessandro Mangano (Head of Engineering)
Transportation

As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space | TechCrunch

A trip to Europe often means adjusting to a lot of walking, but don’t let it fool you:...