Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic has snagged $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation in…
HaloBraid raises $7M from Seven Seven Six to end the six-hour hair salon appointment
Box. Boho. Knotlesss. Most Black women understand exactly what those words refer to: Braided…
Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
One of the most important things happening on Earth today is the solar energy…
Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
Terra said its competition right now is any defense company that has won government…
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station
It will also need it to hold its ground in a crowded field of…
Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors…
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
Encore AI, a startup that studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI…
Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave announced Tuesday a Series E round that values the…
Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits
Oratomic, which entered the race earlier this year with the goal of developing the…
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majority of its public portfolio…
Final 24 hours to save up to $410 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
This is it. The countdown is almost over. You now have until tonight at 11:59 p.m.…
After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund
Menlo Ventures announced $3 billion in funds on Tuesday, the largest raise in its…
Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, said on…
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Startup Groq has raised $350 million as it continues to pivot from an AI…
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund
But SPVs don't have the same kind of street cred as traditional VC funds. Yet Ernest remains confident that starting with them, and earning a solid rep with family offices, rather than launching…
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
"This is the same principle that you have in Bitcoin, where Bitcoin, as a…
