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114,164

Companies

$7.2T

Total Funding

28,233

Investors

215,107

People

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Tempo

Tempo

San Francisco, CA, US

Founded

2014

Stage

Series C

Disclosed Funding

$298.8M

Bridgecard

Bridgecard

Lekki, Lagos, NG

Founded

2021

Stage

Seed

Disclosed Funding

$500k

Chordio

Chordio

Issaquah, WA, US

Founded

2022

Stage

Seed

Disclosed Funding

$500k

Shift Health

Shift Health

Provo, UT, US

Founded

2019

Stage

Seed

Disclosed Funding

$150k

Taobotics

Taobotics

Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN

Founded

2018

Stage

Pre-Seed

Disclosed Funding

$150k

Medigram

Medigram

Los Gatos, CA, US

Founded

2011

Stage

Seed

Disclosed Funding

$170k

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Why this little known Chinese chipmaker has caused a global stock rout

China's leading memory chipmaker CXMT has reportedly made progress on new designs.

Oct 13, 2026

Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch Disrupt

Fusion power plants will need a lot of lithium, and Licube is preparing to be a key supplier.

Oct 13, 2026

Applied Intuition Fields Offers at $30 Billion Valuation

For the last three years, AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI have sucked up a lot of investor attention—as well as nosebleed valuations.

Oct 13, 2026

Niobia takes the guesswork out of some of tech’s most expensive mistakes

The San Francisco startup aims to help battery and chip manufacturers identify defects on production lines, reducing downtime and costly mistakes.

Oct 13, 2026

Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads

Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.

Oct 13, 2026

Forget rockets — Longshot wants to fire cargo into space from a gun. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Longshot is trying to build a gun big enough to make space data centers a reality.

Oct 13, 2026

AI Agent Company Decagon Held Early M&A Talks With ServiceNow, Others

Buzzy AI agent startup Decagon could be the latest company swept up in a growing wave of AI dealmaking.

Oct 13, 2026

Facebook will let you customize your feed algorithm using AI

Meta's bringing Instagram's “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content.

Oct 13, 2026

FDA clears Sora Neuroscience's brain mapping software

Cirrus uses fMRI imaging to acquire and generate maps of critical brain networks to assist with brain surgery planning.

Oct 13, 2026

Bumble to Delist in $1.3 Billion Deal With Ithaca Holdings

Bumble Inc. is being taken private by newly formed firm Ithaca Holdings for $1.3 billion, a fraction of its value when it went public in 2021 …

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Apple Inc. today expanded its product lineup with a smart display, a new iteration of its HomePod speaker and an upgraded set-top box. The company also introduced a collection of partner-developed smart home gadgets. Users can manage the devices via the Apple Home app that ships with the iPhone make

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Deliverance AI puts sovereign AI control to the continuity test

Sovereign AI control depends on customer-held keys, model resilience and financial discipline as Deliverance AI brings governed agents into enterprise systems.

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Microsoft’s top science exec is leaving to fulfill a childhood dream: Joining a Formula 1 team

When Peter Lee announced two weeks ago that he was leaving Microsoft, he said only that his next job would fulfill “a dream I’ve had since childhood.” The dream, it turns out, comes with a pit crew. The longtime Microsoft Research leader, who is leaving his post as president of Microsoft Science aft

Oct 13, 2026

Spranic builds spatial memory for physical AI

Spranic is building spatial memory for physical AI, using knowledge graphs to help robots adapt tasks and trace the information behind decisions.

Oct 13, 2026

UW receives $12M gift from Taiwan-based chip company led by alumnus Arthur Chiao

The University of Washington’s College of Engineering has received a $12 million gift from a semiconductor company whose chairman earned a master’s degree from the school more than 45 years ago. The donation is from Winbond Electronics Corporation America, a U.S. subsidiary of Taiwan-based Winbond E

Oct 13, 2026

Workday makes Sana its new home for AI-driven HR and finance

Enterprise management software company Workday Inc. today announced that it wants to turn its existing knowledge of people, money and business rules into an operational foundation for agentic artificial intelligence tools. At Workday Rising, the company’s annual global conference, the company said S

Oct 13, 2026

Trellix Wise for Private Cloud runs AI security operations inside customer environments

Cybersecurity company Trellix today launched Trellix Wise for Private Cloud to let enterprises run its artificial intelligence engine for security operations entirely inside their own environments. The new release targets the main reasons large organizations have held back from handing security oper

Oct 13, 2026

XMEMS starts mass-producing chips that cool AI glasses, smartphones and data centers

Silicon chip startup xMEMS Labs Inc. today said it has started mass production of its XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 chips for cooling artificial intelligence hardware. No one has commercialized solid-state active cooling at this scale before, according to the company. The chips are aimed at AI hardware runn

Oct 13, 2026

Business video automation startup Clueso raises $10M to kill off manual production processes

Clueso, creator of an agentic video creation platform that’s designed specifically for business teams, said today it has raised $10 million in a new early-stage round of funding. Dharana Capital led the Series A round, which saw participation from Founders Fund, Neotribe Ventures, Y Combinator and f

Oct 13, 2026

Broadcom adds hypervisor protection to VMware

Citing the growing speed and volume of artificial intelligence-enabled attacks, Broadcom Inc. today introduced VMware HyperArmor, software that protects the hypervisor underlying VMware Cloud Foundation and gives administrators more time to test and deploy security patches. Announced at VMware Explo

Oct 13, 2026

Flexport and AI startup Freightmate settle trade secrets suit ahead of trial

Freightmate AI has settled a trade secrets lawsuit filed by San Francisco-based freight forwarder Flexport on terms that will keep the Bellevue, Wash.-based logistics software startup’s products on the market. “We’re glad to have this resolved,” said Bryan Lacaillade, Freightmate’s CEO and co-founde

Oct 12, 2026

Quantum computer maker IonQ to buy cybersecurity startup Elisity for $1.3B

IonQ Inc., a publicly traded supplier of quantum computers, today announced plans to acquire Elisity Inc. for $1.3 billion. The price tag includes $150 million in performance incentives that are contingent on Elisity meeting certain business milestones. The all-stock deal is set to close by year’s e

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