Cursor continues acquisition Spree with Graphite deal
Graphite is an AI code review assistant that was last valued at $290 million.
Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.
VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power
The next consumer tech revolution may require an introduction of a new personal device.
Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital
The massive fund haul will allow the Silicon Valley firm to continue to invest in cash hungry AI startups.
Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round
Led by Naveen Rao, the former head of AI at Databricks, the new hardware startup is valued at $4.5 billion.
Fal nabs $140M in fresh funding led by Sequoia, tripling valuation to $4.5B
The round, which was Fal’s third fundraise this year, also included a secondary sale for early investors, sources tell us.
SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund SkildAI at $14B, nearly tripling its value
Skild AI is developing a hardware-agnostic foundation model for robots that can be customized for various uses.
Sources: AI synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A at a $1B ‘headline’ valuation
The one-year-old startup, which does market research on simulated populations, had a multi-tier valuation round, sources tell TechCrunch.
This startup built a Fitbit for your brain to combat chronic stress
Awear won the Battlefield 200 health stage pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy
While VCs have long used big investments to spur category winners, they are taking this strategy to new extremes.