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TechCrunch Startup News

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3:52

IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/24

For decades, couples going through in vitro fertilization have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on the procedures with no guarantee of success. It’s not only an emotionally draining process, but a financially exhausting one as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:39

Hyperlume wants to make chip-to-chip communication...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/21

Data centers consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023 and are estimated to use up to 12% by 2028. The majority of the energy data centers suck up is used to help transfer data from chip to chip. A company called Hyperlume is looking to make that process more energy-efficient while also speeding it up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:09

Augury raises $73M on a $1B+ valuation for AI to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/21

As companies like Nvidia and SoftBank make industrial robotics into a key focus for future R&D, a startup has raised funding today for another facet of how AI is being used on the factory room floor. Augury, which develops AI-based hardware that measures vibrations, sound, temperature and other factors to understand how machines are working Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:43

Level Zero Health banks $6.9M to prove wearable...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/20

Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that’s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-seed funding round despite being only a little over a year old. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:15

Legal tech startup Luminance, backed by the late Mike...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/20

Generative AI is getting better at interpreting dense texts, and this progress has proven to be a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. It makes sense then that we’ve been seeing a new burst of activity in the legal tech space Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:37

Germany’s Helsing doubles down on drones for Ukraine,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/19

Helsing, the German defense tech startup backed by Spotify’s Daniel Ek and others, is producing 6,000 HX-2 strike drones in addition to the 4,000 HF-1 strike drones financed by Germany that are currently being delivered to Ukraine. “We are scaling up production of HX-2 in response to additional orders from Ukraine.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:37

Mistral releases regional model focused on Arabic...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/19

The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical. On Monday, Paris-based AI startup Mistral — which is vying to rival the likes of U.S.-based Anthropic and OpenAI — is releasing a model that’s a bit different from its usual LLM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:24

Tofu is building an omni-channel marketing platform...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/18

When EJ Cho started his first company in 2018, he was exposed to what it takes to market a product. He was surprised to find a market filled with different single-use tools. “It was a very frustrating experience,” Cho told TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:01

Phase raises $13M to speed up the UX design process...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/18

UX and UI designers work closely with engineers throughout product development to build and implement design concepts and wireframes for functional user interfaces. Regular communication, feedback and testing are required for the collaboration to work smoothly and deliver a user experience that aligns with the intended design goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:21

Apptronik, which makes humanoid robots, raises $350M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/17

Apptronik, a University of Texas spin-out that was quietly building humanoid robots before it became quite so fashionable, on Thursday announced a $350 million Series A round of financing. B Capital and Capital Factory co-led the round, which also featured participation from Googl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:35

Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats...

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2025/02/17

Uber Eats customers in Jersey City can now have their orders delivered by one of Avride’s autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. The launch, which kicked off this week in New Jersey, is Uber’s latest foray into autonomous vehicles and represents an expanding relationship with Avride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:58

No-code app builder Softr expands beyond Airtable...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/14

If you’re working for a small company and want to build a client portal or an internal tool, it can be difficult to find the budget and resources to allocate a developer to that small project.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:12

SpotDraft taps AI to help streamline contract management

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/14

More and more legal professionals are embracing AI, surveys show. Per a recent poll from legaltech company Clio, 79% of firms used some form of AI for casework last year, up from just 19% in 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:39

Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/13

The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:01

Voyantis aims to help companies figure out their...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/13

How much is a customer worth to a company? That’s the eternal question. To arrive at an answer, customer and sales teams are often forced to use spreadsheets and other manual data analysis methods. The problem is, these methods tend to be slow and error-prone, leading to gaps in reporting processes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:09

Archer Aviation doubles down on defense aircraft with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/12

Escalating geopolitical tensions and a new administration with a hawkish defense agenda has led many startups to embrace dual-use strategies to secure revenue through military applications. And it’s a trend that is already heating up in aerospace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:24

3D mood board and marketplace Mattoboard picks up $2M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/12

Mattoboard, the makers of web-based software designed to simplify the creative process for interior designers and architects, is getting into AI. On Tuesday, the startup announced its $2 million seed funding round, which will support the launch of a new feature called Design Stream, an AI-driven visual search and discovery tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:45

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/11

In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:28

PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/11

The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an AI chatbot to serve useful output. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:10

Hiveclass, a platform for virtual PE classes for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/02/10

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and schools transitioned to online learning, both Joe Titus and Paul Suhr were concerned about how to maintain their children’s activity levels in the absence of mandatory physical education classes and sports. The two friends’ solution was Hiveclass, a New York-based edtech platform that hosts online courses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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