Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria
Thrive Holdings has bought more than 70 businesses and has a team of 35…
After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M
Groq is looking to raise $650 million in new funding from existing investors, sources…
Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Kutcher's departure was partly due to different views on which startup stages to target…
Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation
Elon Musk's tunneling startup The Boring Company is in talks to raise a $4…
Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.
You showed up at Stanford as a coder. How did you end up breaking…
Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names
Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders. This…
Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups
The firm, which was founded in 2018 by Huang, a former partner at Sequoia,…
Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston
Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders…
The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI
On top of that, Dylan landed this big fish as an investor even though…
The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs
With each new season comes another YC Demo Day. On Tuesday, the Spring 2026…
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation
Valar's technology is based on a helium-cooled, high-temperature gas reactor. The company says it…
Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
Reach Capital announced Tuesday the close of a $265 million Fund V. The thesis…
The groupthink boom: what three top VCs really think about the AI frenzy
This week at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in Athens — part of the Panathenea festival…
Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading
Earlier this year, shares of traditional SaaS companies tumbled amid investor fears that software…
Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules
Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco…
Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He…
