Category: Ventures
Why VivaTech 2026 is the place to see Europe’s AI strategy take shape | TechCrunch
TechCrunch is partnering with VivaTech 2026 to spotlight some of the most important conversations shaping the future of...
How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless | TechCrunch
Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes to...
How to invest when everything is moving too fast | TechCrunch
TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working...
Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manas | TechCrunch
After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman...
Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names | TechCrunch
Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders. This has led to another...
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out | TechCrunch
In late May, Neil Rimer said something during a sit-down I had with him in Athens that I...
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation | TechCrunch
Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially miniaturized, factory-built power plants designed to...
No product? No problem. This Disrupt 2026 session shows how to get pre-seed funding with conviction, storytelling | TechCrunch
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the...
Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her ‘Mafia’ skills) | TechCrunch
Ryan Beiermeister has joined Founders Fund as a partner, she announced on Monday. Beiermeister is well-known in Silicon...
AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M | TechCrunch
Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the...
