Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Department of Defense engineers in 2017, five years before the public launch of ChatGPT, was prescient. The startup’s technology helps companies distinguish legitimate human users from increasingly hidden bot traffic to help
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, a standard to allow AI models and agents to securely obtain external data and tools, has filed a lawsuit against human resources software startup Rippling, according to the complaint seen by TechCrunch. The lawsuit is a warning to anyone selling AI infrastructure to enterprise
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, co-founder and CEO of water lily. It has been edited for length and clarity. As a child, I was fascinated by the universe and wanted to understand how the world worked. Science taught me that even the most important and
World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month locked sale of the global token, WLD. Lock-up periods prevent asset buyers from selling or trading their tokens for a set period of time. The one-year lockup demonstrates
Corgi, an insurance technology, data room software and coffee shop startup, is reportedly raising another round that closely follows its latest raise and would double its valuation, sources told Forbes. The round is said to be a second extension of its Series B round and is already closed. Corgi announced its latest round, the $106
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia and we’re partnering with Stripe to find the most interesting early-stage startups in the country. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take to the Stripe Tour Sydney stage to present live in front of investors, press and the tech community. Three will win prizes. One will win