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Flipkart is set to debut its food delivery service later this month, backed by millions of users, lower platform fees, and logistics support from Minutes and Ekart. The ecommerce giant is gearing up to challenge Zomato and Swiggy. With a large base to cross-sell food orde…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected his ex-defence chief's calls for a wartime election, calling the prospect a 'huge risk' amid the more than four-year war with Russia.
Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform, raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation in 48 hours. The company has 600 customers, mostly looking to ditch legacy accounting systems. Rillet's AI agents can work alongside humans on corporate bookkeeping, and the company ha…
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites for AI inference in orbit, has secured an additional $250 million funding, bringing its valuation to $2.3 billion. This capital will support manufacturing expansion and efforts to secure crucial launch capacity for its ambitious …
Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. A founder who has raised over $1 billion shares what he's learned about fundraising and financial metrics.
Coinbase's Base is launching a new startup accelerator program focused on AI agents, trading, payments, and financing products. The program will select 10 startups for an eight-week virtual program and provide each selected team with a $100,000 investment.
A Saudi company has received $533 million in funding to continue the expansion of its project, which is expected to attract 50 million visitors annually and contribute to the country's non-oil GDP.
AI dictation startup Wispr secured $280 million in Series B funding, reaching a $2 billion valuation, as it expands beyond dictation into meeting note-taking and new human-computer interfaces.
Crypto startups raised $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with all funding going to regulated businesses.
Nvidia has revised its plans to support a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio and is now expected to initially guarantee less than $120 billion, down from the $250 billion previously discussed, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar wit…
Sarah Buchner, a former carpenter, founded Trunk Tools, an AI startup for the construction industry. She grew up in a low-income household in Austria and worked in construction for over a decade before building a health and safety app and pursuing a Ph.D. in data science.
Centricity has secured ₹280 Cr (approximately $29 Mn) in a funding round led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund, aiming to enhance its wealthtech platform and expand its B2B2C distribution, private wealth, and NRI client businesses.
Lovable raised $400M in a Series C at a $13.3B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund.
Investors are focused on AI IPOs, but the real story begins after the IPO, when limited partners receive distributions and decide where to deploy that capital next. This can reshape venture fundraising and concentrate capital among the industry's largest firms.
This week, several startups raised significant funding rounds, including Hadrian, Base Power, and Valar Atomics, which secured financings of $1 billion or more. Other companies in sectors such as AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech, and mining also announced sizable ne…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is a conference for founders, investors, and tech leaders. The event will take place at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15, 2026. The conference will feature a packed lineup of speakers, over 200 expert sessions, and numerous networking…
Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names leading the tallies for deal count and size. Khosla Ventures topped the ranks last month, while Y Combinator was by far the busiest backer by deal count.
Hadrian secures $1.37B round, valuing company at $8B.
Y Combinator has seen a growing number of repeat founders, who have already participated in the program at least once. Crunchbase News analyzed a dataset of repeat founders and found that most have gone through YC twice, with some returning as soon as two years later and …
Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC has completed an extension of its Series B funding round, bringing the cumulative total to approximately $38 million (6 billion yen). Logistics group AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings joined as a new investor, with JPYC planning to use the capital…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading faster than the response efforts. The outbreak has accounted for 3,874 confirmed cases, including 1,751 deaths, as of Monday. The WHO chief has urged the authorities to quickly …
Adeel Khan, a former principal, built MagicSchool AI, a platform designed as an all-in-one AI operating system for K-12 educators and students. The tool acts as a daily assistant for teachers, performing tasks like building rubrics and generating practice worksheets. Khan…
Chinese commercial rocket company i-Space has secured nearly RMB1 billion in the first tranche of its Series E funding round. This capital will primarily fuel the R&D and batch production of its Hyperbola-3 reusable rocket and Focus-2 liquid-oxygen methane engine.
Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July, with startup capital totaling $65 billion, up 100% year over year. The month notched the highest-ever number of billion-dollar venture rounds on record, with 14 startups raising billion-dollar rounds.
Embodied-AI startup PaXini has secured RMB1 billion in strategic funding, bringing its total fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, to advance R&D, expand capacity, and grow overseas for its tactile-sensing chips.
UCLA researchers launched an OnlyFans account called OnlyMarms to support a project tracking yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado, after traditional funding became harder to secure. Over 10 OnlyMarms-inspired meme coins have appeared on Solana, but it's unclear who created …
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The company is riding growing enterprise demand for its AI-powered security testing platform.
Nigeria seeks stronger domestic funding to sustain HIV response
Nigeria is intensifying efforts to secure domestic financing for its HIV response amidst declining international donor support, which threatens to undermine decades of progress in prevention, treatment, and care.
Kimi Completes $35 Billion F-Round Financing, Valuation Rises to $350 Billion; SpaceX Short Seller Holds Over $260 Billion in Position, Book Profit Exceeds $7 Billion
Kimi, a Chinese AI startup, has completed a $35 billion F-round financing, valuing the company at $350 billion. Meanwhile, SpaceX's short seller holds over $260 billion in position, with a book profit exceeding $7 billion.
Freehand, an enterprise AI startup, has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to scale its autonomous AI agents, which manage complex supply chain spend and back-office operations for Fortune 500 companies.