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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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5:47

Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/26

An investor explains the "buy, fix, and hold" model employed by Bending Spoons and similar companies that buy distressed startups.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:07

Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India’s next...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/26

Google and Accel will jointly invest up to $2 million in each startup through their new partnership.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:23

Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/25

Career exploration platform Find Your Grind raises $5 million to help more students discover alternative professions. Also, the discovery of a massive lithium deposit suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:37

X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/25

The small modular reactor startup is capitalizing on surging interest from tech companies and data center developers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:35

This startup wants to build a fusion reactor — on a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/24

Startups are still racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant on land, but Maritime Fusion thinks the path will be easier out at sea. Also, AI testing startup Momentic has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Standard Capital, with participation from Dropbox Ventures. Existing investors at Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform and Karman Ventures also participated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:53

Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/24

Sierra’s rapid growth suggests that enerprises are embracing AI agents.Also, Phictly helps fans find niche clubs for their favorite books, shows, and movies, offering intimate, spoiler-safe communities with flexible pacing and tracker tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:49

The European startup market is ready for the limelight

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/21

The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:17

Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/21

The quickly growing prediction betting market raised fresh capital from Sequoia and CapitalG, according to someone familiar with the deal. Also, Point One Navigation, now valued at $230 million, is building out well beyond automotive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:10

After SEC investigation, Curastory founder resigns,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/20

Curastory’s founder and CEO, Tiffany Kelly, has resigned from the role and replaced herself with Dave Dickman, former CEO of the influencer marketing platform Tagger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:03

Cavela lands $6.6M to help brands beat pre-tariff...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/20

When Anthony Sardain began developing Cavela in 2023, an AI startup that helps brands automate supplier sourcing, he did not foresee that new tariffs would drive customers to become increasingly wary of manufacturing products in China. Function Health, which offers a regular lab testing service to help people track their health, wants to change that by consolidating health data and making it usable for its customers by connecting that data to an AI model. To further that effort, the company

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6:27

Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/19

“The best ideas in drug discovery were often blocked not by biology, but by synthesis,” Boiko told TechCrunch. Synthesis is the creation of new molecules by using chemical reactions. It’s like a recipe or Lego pieces, where small pieces, ingredients, molecules, come together to form a wider puzzle picture, a food dish, a larger molecule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:47

Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/19

Instead of getting an AI-generated travel plan, Boop aims to give users access to itineraries from real people who went on real trips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:33

Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt as consumers...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/18

With consumers increasingly asking questions to ChatGPT, not Google, product discovery is changing — and the promise to give brands visibility and control over this fast-growing search channel has made Peec AI one of Europe's hottest startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:49

Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/18

On Monday, Luminal announced $5.3 million in seed funding, in a round led by Felicis Ventures with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, and Ben Porterfield. Also, as U.S. giants like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic race to develop the large language models that underpin their AI products, startups such as Sakana AI, Mistral AI, DeepSeek, and AI 21 Labs are carving out their own niche with specialized models designed for specific regions, industries, or unique features. Learn more

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8:52

Is Jeff Bezos returning to the trenches with a new AI...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/17

Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: the billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive. Plus, Bone AI, a South Korean startup, is combining AI and manufacturing to build next-gen defense robotics and challenge the region’s industry giants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:30

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/17

Israeli startup Milestone raised a $10 million seed funding round to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:01

Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/14

The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:47

VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/14

The goalposts are moving for AI startups when it comes to growth, product features and just about everything else.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:51

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/13

WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:05

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2025/11/12

Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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