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TechCrunch Startup News

Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who"s raising, who"s exiting, who"s changing the world.

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5:01

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/20

Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, launched a side project called Endless Summer, a photobooth app for iPhone that creates AI-generated vacation photos starring you in locations around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:16

How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/17

After struggling to retain customers at his e-commerce site Headphones.com, founder Andrew Lissimore built his own loyalty solution — and it’s now a startup called Lantern. The Shopify-native platform helps brands boost retention through customizable loyalty, referrals, and account management tools.Also, Deel says it's been profitable for three years and surpassed $1 billion in ARR, including having a month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:37

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/16

Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that's using that data to build AI agents that understand how they move through space and time, a concept called spatial-temporal reasoning.Also, electric aviation startup Beta Technologies has priced shares for its initial public offering between $27 and $33, in hopes of raising as much as $825 million, according to a regulatory document filed

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10:43

Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/16

Liberate’s AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims.Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:40

Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/15

Sonic Fire Tech has developed a device that can extinguish flames using acoustic energy below the range of human hearing. The startup is building a demo capable of protecting a home.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:36

FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/15

Co-founded by a former Uber Freight product manager, and backed by Uber's lead seed investor, FleetWorks is quickly scooping up customers in the trucking world.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:27

Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to build...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/14

Flint raised a $5 million seed round led by Accel, with participation from Sheryl Sandberg’s fund, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, and prior investor Neo.Also, Coco Robotics is working toward automating its fleet of delivery robots using its millions of miles of collected data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:35

India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/14

An Indian drone startup called Airbound raised nearly $9 million in seed funding as it begins a drone-delivery pilot with a private hospital and works toward one-cent delivery using its ultra-light, blended-wing-body aircraft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:57

Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/13

Kalshi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, announced that it raised over three hundred million dollars at a 5 billion dollar valuation. The company’s value has increased two and a half times since its last fundraise just three months ago, when it was valued at two billion dollars. Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost one of its co-founders to Meta. The Wall Street Journal reports that AI researcher Andrew Tulloch

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6:48

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/10

Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:52

Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/09

Novoloop has signed a deal with a contract manufacturer to produce its Lifecycled TPU material. Also, Knapsack creates a unified workspace that integrates design and coding tools to ensure design and engineering teams are on the same page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:24

Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/09

Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:01

Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/08

Trump's Department of Energy wants to cancel billions more in awards that were granted by the Biden administration, and startups are in the crosshairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:21

One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/08

By coating regular rebar with a thin layer of stainless steel, Allium Engineering could reduce the amount of concrete needed to build a bridge while also prolonging its life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:14

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/07

The third-party app store known as AltStore, one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union, is preparing to connect its platform with the open social web known as the fediverse. Also, ÄIO has developed a process to turn agricultural waste like sawdust into fats for the food and cosmetic industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:52

A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/07

19-year-old Dhravya Shah, who is originally from Mumbai, has built a memory layer for AI applications with Google's AI chief's backing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:58

Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/06

Heidi Health raised a $65 million Series B led by Steven Cohen’s Point72. Also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund to invest in MIT early-staged founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:41

Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/06

Social event planning app Partiful, which calls itself “Facebook events for hot people,” has firmly replaced Facebook as the go-to platform for sending party invitations. But what Partiful also has in common with Facebook is that it’s collecting a tsunami of user data, and Partiful could have done better at keeping that data secure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:00

A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/03

Zehra Naqvi grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s and recently started Lore, a search platform for people to research and discover internet obsessions. The company has already raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding. It is set to emerge from stealth on October 6th.Also, when Jamie Gull graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a master’s degree in aeronautics, there was one place he wanted to go next: the desert. The Mojave desert, to be specific. A company called Scaled Composites

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10:54

How startups could be affected by a prolonged...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/10/02

The U.S. government shutdown could stifle deal flow, freeze visa processing for workers, and cause other problems for startups and the broader tech sector, especially if it lasts longer than a week, according to experts who spoke to TechCrunch. Also, Bryan Onel’s father was a locksmith. As for Onel, he described himself as the digital equivalent. Ethical hacking was Onel’s hobby growing up. He studied AI at university and then turned that hacking hobby into a profession. Onel told TechCrunch, “I

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