A new generation of consumer social startups is emerging. From platforms focused on getting people to meet in real life to dating apps replacing Tinder or Hinge, startups are revolutionizing the digital social scene. The founders of these startups are addressing issues like loneliness, dating app fatigue, and general dissatisfaction with current social media headlines.
It’s not just you: AI startups are receiving a lot of seed funding and, in the process, making things difficult for anyone seeking funding, even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders who are now locked into early-stage expectations.
The window is almost closed. On August 19, eight startups will take to the Stripe Tour Sydney stage in front of investors, the global press and the Australian tech community. A startup is automatically entered into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco: no application, no further competition, a guaranteed spot on the world’s most iconic startup
Databricks announced a new funding round Thursday that values the company at $188 billion. The round was led by Coatue. Databricks did not reveal exactly how much it raised; He said the money is not yet in his hands and the round will close later this summer. (Other outlets have since reported the increase to
Valar Atomics, a startup that builds small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially factory-built miniaturized power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional reactors — is in talks to raise a new round of capital, according to three sources familiar with the company. The company, founded three years ago, is seeking
While the rest of the AI industry is quick to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of AMI Labs, Yann LeCun’s global model startup, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all. “We never used the