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Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch

Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant that sold it to Google for $5.4...

Startups

Could Kickstarter replace your seed round? | TechCrunch

Loading the player…For years, crowdfunding had a reputation as the place founders went when they couldn’t raise venture...

AI

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents | TechCrunch

The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it...

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The AI race won’t wait, and neither will this TechCrunch Disrupt 25% discount | TechCrunch

Every founder building in AI right now is asking the same question: Are we moving fast enough, and...

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Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation | TechCrunch

Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 million Series B...

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Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition | TechCrunch

Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of the AI coding startup Factory, said in a post on X on...

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AI

Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

AI models keep getting more capable. But every leap forward demands more compute, energy, and infrastructure. How far...

Venture

Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for | TechCrunch

Two Google alumni have closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups, betting that the era...

Startups

More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week,...

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Biotech & Health

After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building “glasses for voice” | TechCrunch

Konrad Zieliński lost his voice to cancer years ago while he was a student at the University of...