The Byte Surge

Live News

15.5°C
  • London
October 16, 2026
Follow Us:

Tag: Fundraising

The Byte SurgeBlog
AI

HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments | TechCrunch

When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big...

Retro-Header
Apps

Friend-focused photo-sharing app Retro snags $21M | TechCrunch

Retro, the friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram product engineers Nathan Sharp and Ryan Olson, has raised...

Ethan Thornton, founder CEO Mach Industries
Startups

Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months | TechCrunch

Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension...

Low angle view of Andreessen Horowitz office building facade with company logo
In Brief

a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’ | TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm’s aim with the...

Robot hand holding money
Fundraising

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics | TechCrunch

New York-based General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through...

Profound founders
In Brief

AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round | TechCrunch

Profound, which builds marketing software to help brands appear in AI search results, on Tuesday said it has...

Blue glowing futuristic semiconductor and circuit board.
Fundraising

Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs | TechCrunch

For decades, chipmakers have sought to make semiconductors faster by shrinking silicon transistors and packing more of them...

money emerging from a firehose
Venture

How Bain Capital Ventures plans to deploy its fresh $1.6B fund | TechCrunch

Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture division of private equity firm Bain Capital, has raised a new $1.6...

Startups

Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs | TechCrunch

It’s been a while since Jackson Wagner left his job as a product lead at Scale AI in...

TechCrunch Disrupt Jeff Lawson
Startups

Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

Jeff Lawson has already helped build a company with more than $4 billion in revenue and 300,000 customers...