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Monarch Tractor was in a tricky spot late last year as the autonomous electric tractor startup juggled growth and an uncertain fundraising environment. Now, with $133 million in new funds,…
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Startups
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…
Choosing between New York City’s nearly 25,000 restaurants can be overwhelming. The pressure is especially high when you’re trying to impress a first date (or investor) or entertain family from…
On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan did a deep dive into the CrowdStrike outage that affected around 8.5 million Windows devices around the world,…
Nine months on, and Jigsaw is now formally handing Altitude over to Tech Against Terrorism, which will continue its development and maintenance.
Late last week, there was a worldwide tech outage that affected everything from airports to banks to healthcare. Flights were grounded across the United States.…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco is fast approaching, and we’re seeking highly motivated volunteers to support our events team. If you dream of becoming a startup founder, marketer, or…
Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and many of its generative AI startup rivals, Cohere doesn’t have a big consumer focus.
Indian food delivery and quick commerce startup Swiggy is pivoting one of its smaller businesses, Swiggy Minis, into a link-in-bio service.
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Fragment’s digital ledger API applies real-time, double entry accounting to find where things aren’t adding up.
Identity management is one of the most common fulcrums around which security breaches have pivoted in the last several years. One of the main reasons it has become the gift…
Featured Article
Pesa unlocks new markets to keep remittances flowing to emerging economies
Founders of Pesa, a remittance fintech, know too well how costly, inaccessible and unreliable remittance services drive people to opt for risky informal channels — like WhatsApp groups — to transfer money. Their firsthand experience using informal channels and realizing how prevalent their use was among Africans living in the…
A little more than a year after launching the ROG Ally, Asus is releasing a refined version of its portable device, the ROG Ally X. This Windows-based machine starts shipping…
As a part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch interviewed Lakshmi…
With President Joe Biden dropping out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris may become the Democrats’ new nominee. In announcing his plans, Biden offered his “full support and endorsement…
U.S. President Joe Biden has announced he no longer plans to seek reelection, a decision that follows weeks of growing pressure from some Democratic Party supporters, including high-profile tech investors…
Hardware
Made by Google 2024: Pixel 9, Gemini, a new foldable and other things to expect from the event
Google is expected to announce four Pixel devices: the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL and Pixel 9 Pro Premium, running Android 15.
WazirX, one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has “temporarily” suspended all trading activities on its platform days after losing about $230 million, nearly half of its reserves, in a security…
Featured Article
From Yandex’s ashes comes Nebius, a ‘startup’ with plans to be a European AI compute leader
Subject to shareholder approval, Yandex N.V. is adopting the name of one of its few remaining assets, an AI cloud platform called Nebius AI which it birthed last year.
