The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners,…
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…
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
"They are at the frontier and driving it forward. We want that to be…
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders…
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…
Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
"It allowed us to demonstrate that our approach to early-stage investing in Africa could…
How Bain Capital Ventures plans to deploy its fresh $1.6B fund
Like many other venture investors, BCV says it will use the fresh funds to…
Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech
Defense and venture capital used to rarely overlap, but that's no longer the case.…
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…
Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18
On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus, investors, founders, and tech leaders…
Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Indian IT services giant Infosys, will no longer serve as…
