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Exhibition stand design that works: What top brands do differently at trade shows
While they have been around for decades, trade shows are still a popular marketing channel, where brands can…
ASML alum’s Euclyd eyes €100M raise to build AI chip systems: report
A Dutch startup founded just over a year ago in an attic in Eindhoven is seeking to raise…
AI coding startup Factory raises $150M from Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital at $1.5B valuation
Factory has secured $150 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Khosla Ventures leading…
UK’s £500M Sovereign AI Fund promises cash, compute, visas – but will it deliver?
Founders and investors are cautiously optimistic of the UK Government’s AI ambitions, they tell Tech Funding News on…
InsightFinder raises $15M from Yu Galaxy to fix AI failures
InsightFinder has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Yu Galaxy, bringing its total funding…
STORM Therapeutics raises $56M from M Ventures, Pfizer Ventures to start Phase 2 trial for cancer drug
STORM Therapeutics has closed a $56 million Series C round and has begun dosing patients in its Phase…
British Business Bank commits £100M to Apposite to close UK life sciences scale-up gap
The British Business Bank has made its largest funding commitment to date, investing £100 million in Apposite Healthcare…
How Anthropic’s Mythos model prompts security concerns and quantum investment
Anthropic’s new AI model has been deemed too dangerous to release to the public, raising urgent questions about…
Allbirds drops shoes, pivots to AI, soars over 600% in value to $148M: Report
Allbirds, known for sustainable footwear popular among Silicon Valley professionals, announced it will exit the shoe business and…
YC-backed Slash nabs $100M from Khosla Ventures for business banking platform
Slash Financial, a fintech that nearly collapsed after the Kanye West controversy, has now reached unicorn status. The…
New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets
The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.
Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report
AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.
Accel raises $5B to back late-stage bets
Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion in fresh capital to back late-stage companies building AI.
Anthropic shrugs off VC funding offers valuing it at $800B+, for now
VCs are frothing at the mouth to write more checks to Anthropic at a valuation that matches or beats OpenAI's.
Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z
Pillar hopes to offer sophisticated, institutional-grade tools to small and medium-sized enterprises. "Our goal is to make hedging as accessible and ubiquitous as payments or accounting software," he said.
In just a couple weeks, StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together
The first StrictlyVC of the year will be coming to San Francisco before you know it. There are still a few tickets available to join us and our stacked speaker lineup April 30, so register today!
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch signals IPO readiness as AI agents fuel revenue surge
While many startups founded prior to the emergence of ChatGPT are struggling to position themselves for the AI era, Vercel, a 10-year-old dev tool and website hosting platform, is benefiting from the explosion of AI-gene
Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65B valuation for open AI chips
The deal is interesting for a number of reasons, including that SiFive's chip designs are based on RISC-V, not x86 or ARM.
Last 24 hours: Save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
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How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless
Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Here’s how to get there and why the opportunity starts well before the main stage.
Final 2 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
Ticket discounts of up to $500 will end tomorrow, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 go up again. Miss this, and you’ll be paying more for the same access to one of the most antici
Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced the close of a $95 million Fund II.
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VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups
Eclipse will put some of that money towards incubating, or building startups.
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The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets
On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participan
OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund
Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.
Harshita Arora Joins YC as General Partner
We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. She brings deep fintech and infrastructure experience, a founder's instinct for product, and the perspective of someone who's b
Startup Battlefield 200 applications open: a chance for VC access, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K
Nominate your startup, or one you know that deserves the spotlight, and finish the process by applying. Selected 200 have a chance at VC access, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K for Startup Battlefield 200. Applications cl
Ticket savings of up to $500 this week for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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Adding Canada Back to Our List of Accepted Countries of Incorporation
After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we are adding Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation.
Congratulations to EquipmentShare on Going Public
Today, EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public. From Missouri to 373 locations nationwide, they've built the operating system construction has been missing—built by contractors, for contractors. Congrats to Jabbok, Willy, an
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surgin
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of sof
Announcing the YC AI Stack
We've partnered with nearly two dozen companies to offer students who attend YC events a suite of over $25,000 in free credits for AI devtools.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of hi
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capabl
Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire featur
Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment
Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary s
The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds
When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny , t
2026 Demo Day Dates
We’re excited to share the Demo Day dates for 2026 so founders, investors, and our broader community can plan ahead.
Meesho Goes Public
Meesho goes public today. From S16 to IPO, they’ve built one of India’s largest e-commerce platforms—empowering millions of small merchants to grow their businesses. Congrats to Vidit and Sanjeev on a decade of relentles
Congratulations to Groww
Today, Groww, India's leading digital investing platform, goes public. Tens of millions use Groww to invest simply and confidently in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. As YC's first company to list in India, we couldn't be
BillionToOne Goes Public — The Startup That Made Genetic Testing Universal
Today, BillionToOne goes public, becoming YC's fourth publicly traded biotech company. More importantly, they have built one of the most important genetic tests in the U.S. Today, 1 in 11 babies born in the US are tested
Meet YC's Newest Visiting Partners
We're excited to announce that nine exceptional founders are joining us as Visiting Partners at YC: Matt Riley, Harshita Arora, Grey Baker, Christopher Golda, Raphael Schaad, Christina Gilbert, Francois Chaubard, Vivian
YC x Coinbase RFS: Build Onchain
We are entering the era of Fintech 3.0. Regulatory clarity, growing consumer adoption, and low-cost chains have paved the way for a golden age of building in crypto — and at YC, Base, and Coinbase, we want to fund builde
Ankit Gupta Joins YC as General Partner, Bringing Deep ML Expertise
We’re thrilled to announce that Ankit Gupta is joining YC as our newest General Partner. Ankit has already worked with dozens of YC founders as a visiting partner in recent batches. He has a rare blend of deep machine le
Dalton Caldwell’s Move to Partner Emeritus
After 12+ years, 25 batches, and working with more than a thousand startups, Dalton Caldwell is transitioning to Partner Emeritus at YC. Dalton joined YC in 2011 and has contributed in a number of roles over the years, m
Welcoming Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas as YC’s Newest General Partners
Over the last few batches, visiting partners Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas have become two of the most trusted voices in the YC community. They were both founders in YC’s Summer 2010 batch, and now, 15 years and two industry-
Tyler Bosmeny built Clever into a $500M company–now he’s helping YC founders do the same as General Partner
We’re thrilled to welcome Tyler Bosmeny back to YC, this time as a General Partner.
Michael Seibel's Legacy Continues at YC: Transition to Partner Emeritus
If you’ve been around YC, you know Michael Seibel has been a huge part of it for over a decade. He’s done it all - YC Founder (w07, w12), Group Partner, and Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator. Along the way, he’