Fundraising
Maven Ventures General Partner Sara Deshpande has been investing in the consumer tech space for a decade. Over time, the seed-stage venture firm has backed…
The firm has numerous legs to it, ranging from a venture studio to standard funds, where it does everything from co-founding companies to deploying capital.
Farmers have got to do something about pests. But nobody really likes the idea of using more chemical pesticides. Thomas Laurent’s company, Micropep, thinks the answer might already be in…
The startup is not disclosing its valuation, but sources close to the company say the figure is just under $400 million post-money.
Dental care is a necessity, yet many patients lack confidence in their dentists’ ability to provide accurate diagnoses and appropriate treatments. Some dentists over treat patients, leading to unnecessary expenses,…
Exoticca’s platform connects flights, hotels, meals, transfers, transportation and more, plus the local companies at the destinations.
Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google’s corporate venture arm. The…
Nathan Rosenberg, the founder of farm automation platform Farmblox, said if there is one thing to know about trying to sell technology to farmers, it’s that you can’t tell them…
Level AI offers a suite of AI-powered tools to automate various customer service tasks.
Quality assurance in the app development world is a necessary, but often resource-draining, undertaking. According to Statista, 23% of companies’ annual IT budgets are allocated to in-house or third-party contracted…
Platforms like TikTok and Spotify have experimented with events on their platforms. But rather than concentrating on concerts and large gatherings, event startup Posh is focusing on intimate gatherings of…
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Legal tech Clio raises $900M at a $3B valuation, plans to double down on AI and fintech
Clio, a Canadian software company that aims to help law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, has raised $900 million in a Series F round that values the company at $3 billion. The valuation is nearly double the $1.6 billion valuation the Vancouver, British Columbia company achieved in…
After a 30-year career in IT, Protexxa founder raises $7.2M for cybersecurity employee hygiene
McGowan said she founded the company due to the rapid rise in cyber attacks these past years and the increased fears people have about cybersecurity.
After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help build…
17-year-old Eric Zhu’s startup was built in a high school bathroom — now it’s raised $2.3M and is emerging from stealth
Eric Zhu started building Aviato, an analytical platform for private market data, in a very atypical place for an entrepreneur: the bathroom in his Carmel, Indiana, high school. Now the 17-year-old’s…
Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and many of its generative AI startup rivals, Cohere doesn’t have a big consumer focus.
Fragment’s digital ledger API applies real-time, double entry accounting to find where things aren’t adding up.
Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is packed with deals, antitrust musings, AI and…
Marathon Fusion emerges from stealth with a plan to help fusion power plants extract tritium, a necessary fuel.
A team of former Google DeepMind researchers are betting that their unique behavior engine for NPCs will make games more fun and dynamic.
Both of Hofy’s co-founders, Sami Bouremoum and Michael Ginzo, along with the rest of the startup’s leadership team and 120 employees, are joining Deel to build Deel IT.
Slope’s founders both have a background in AI, so large language models power the company’s underwriting infrastructure.
Pindrop builds deepfake-combatting and multi-factor authentication products targeting businesses in banking, finance and related industries.
If the music stops, which startup gets a chair? Renegade Partners’ co-founders are finding out
Renegade Partners co-founders Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek have seen it all in their careers — notably over the past four years when they launched…
Matera raises $100M from Warburg Pincus to help the US catch up to Brazil in instant payments
To say that Pix, the instant payment system created by the Central Bank of Brazil, has been a resounding success is an understatement. With Pix, money moves directly between core…
Wittaya Aqua enables seafood farmers to consolidate existing data points across the seafood supply chain.
Community colleges aren’t immune from the current reckoning higher education is facing. Student enrollment is declining while institutions keep raising tuition prices, which can prevent…
Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early-stage games accelerator), founder of…
Astor’s ‘community’ approach to financial advice aims to help women feel more confident about investing
Astor is a free personal finance platform for women that merges community and investing in an approachable way, came to be.
Female-founded startups have raised $15.5 billion so far this year, but that’s not really good news
The reality of the situation is that startups with all women founders will still probably raise 2% of venture capital funding this year.
