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7:31

Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ an AI agent...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/13

Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend, Sophia Kianni, is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation. Also, Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works. Plus, the new startup raised $300 million co-led by

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10:37

AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/10

AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion. Plus, Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:27

Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/09

Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door. Also, Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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12:06

Bidbus pits dealerships against each other to bid on...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/08

Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors. Also, Savi just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:51

Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/07

Station F, the Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel in 2017, is gearing up for a new edition of its selective acceleration F/ai program that will cement its role as a stepping stone for AI startups. Also, Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150M from Meituan and Tencent at a $1B valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:20

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/06

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves. Also, Selby's VC firm Copper Sky Capital is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:44

Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/02

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip. Also, Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:39

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/07/01

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:14

Corgi says it didn’t steal an open source product;...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/30

Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding. Also, Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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16:12

Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/26

Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others. Also, General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:06

Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/25

The Jeff Bezos-backed startup finally revealed more pricing details for its debut EV, including a $29,950 starting price for the SUV variant, and boosted the base range to 205 miles. Plus, new details have emerged about Valor's latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:34

Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/24

Fika Jobs announced on Tuesday a $4 million pre-seed round, which will be used to continue developing the platform, grow the team, and prepare for a wider launch later this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:47

Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/23

After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:17

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/22

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:09

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/19

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.Also, General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:57

SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/18

Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:13

Startup Foundation Alloy developed a new alloying...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/17

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.Also, the company Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:54

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/15

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion. Also, unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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12:11

Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/12

SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy. Also, the funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:40

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2026/06/11

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in, with model makers.Also, backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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