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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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8:27

Robomart unveils new delivery robot to challenge...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/28

Robomart's RM5 autonomous delivery robot can carry up to 50 pounds and deliver multiple customer orders at once.Also, OpenAI has started hiring in India as it looks to expand its presence in the fast-growing South Asian tech market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:43

Eyebot gets $20M Series A to boost to expand eye care...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/27

Eyebot secured $20M Series A for 90-second prescription kiosk.Also, Pintarnya raised $16.7M to power jobs and financial services in Indonesia. The Indonesian startup, now backed by $16.7M in Series A funding, helps workers find full-time and side gigs while offering financial solutions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:37

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/27

FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics. Also, Y Combinator is asking the court to deny Apple’s appeal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:03

As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/26

Several Indian startups, including Dream Sports, MPL, and Zupee, are shutting down their real-money games after parliament passed a bill banning such games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:02

YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/26

The thousands of trucks zipping along U.S. highways are often only about half full -- something Oway wants to change with its 'ride-share for freight' software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:51

Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome....

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/25

Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia has asked a U.S. judge to turn Chrome into a foundation it controls, funding billions in climate projects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:00

Group14 lands $463M to make silicon anodes for EVs,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/25

The battery materials startup raised significant Series D funding to expand its manufacturing capability. At the same time, it bought out partner SK's stake in a joint venture. The company helps automate complex enterprise workflows (like continuous integration and testing) — or, in other words, it makes DevOps capabilities more efficient as AI technology takes hold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:15

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/22

Prices for hacking tools that allow governments to break into mobile phones keep going up, thanks to efforts by tech firms shoring up their cybersecurity.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:19

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/22

FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics.Also, YC backed Garage is a marketplace that sells specialized equipment commonly used in local governments and public safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:27

Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/21

A new gadget called Dex allows kids to take pictures of objects and the AI translates the word into different languages.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:09

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/21

Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product. Also, The round, which pushes Databricks' valuation to $100B, was co-led by Insight Partners and Thrive. CEO Ali Ghodsi says he's found an enormous untapped AI agent market to spend the funds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:02

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/20

The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:56

Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/20

David Petrou, founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass, wants to enhance group chats with AI.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:25

Les Amis, the app helping women form friendships,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/19

Les Amis is an app designed to make it easy for women to form friendships and attend local events. Also, why did Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell? The company raised a $5 million seed round and is releasing it's AI-powered spreadsheet to the general public.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:13

Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/19

This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank Green, the longtime online creator/entrepreneur/educator/sock salesman. Though the app was soft launched last month, Focus Friend is only now gaining momentum on the App Store charts — likely because Green and his brother, author John Green, are posting about it more — reaching No. 4 among all free apps and No. 2 among productivity apps. Also, another crypto company is headed for the public markets. This time,

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9:10

Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/18

It humorously calls this family the Model Zoo because one is like the size of a fly's brain and the other the size of a chicken's. Also, Ultrahuman acquires viO HealthTech to launch enhanced cycle and ovulation tracking. Cycle and Ovulation Pro is available starting Friday as a premium PowerPlug in the Ultrahuman app for $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year for users in the U.S., U.K., EU, Australia, and Canada; and Loveable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months. Loveable is a vibe coding startup

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8:02

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/18

While an Anthropic spokesperson confirmed that the AI firm did not acquire Humanloop or its IP, that’s a moot point in an industry where IP lives in the brain. And what Humanloop’s team is bringing to Anthropic is experience developing the tools that help enterprises run safe, reliable AI at scale. Also, India’s Rapido begins testing food delivery to take on Swiggy, Zomato. Rapido's beta food delivery service has popped up in three key localities in Bengaluru before a broader rollout. Learn more

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8:08

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/15

Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams. Also, Monarch Tractors won’t be built by Foxconn after Ohio factory sale. The tractors were the only vehicles being built by Foxconn in Ohio after Lordstown Motors, Fisker Inc., and IndiEV went bankrupt.Learn more about your ad

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4:46

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/15

Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operations ahead of its planned launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this year.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:06

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/08/14

Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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