Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
The Latest
AI
Instagram co-founders’ AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all
9:42 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as planned. The company announced in January the award-winning app would…
Enterprise
Adobe’s GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketers
9:04 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their brand. At its annual…
AI
TechCrunch Minute: What Stability AI’s CEO departure means for other AI startups
9:00 am PDT • March 26, 2024
What do you call an AI company that is suffering from very public gyrations regarding its business health, place in the market and leadership structure? Well, you might call it…
AI
YC-backed SigmaOS browser turns to AI-powered features for monetization
8:30 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Web browsers have realized they are one of the best ways for users to access the present set of AI tools, so they are working on being the first-choice containers…
Featured Article
Confetti, a team-building platform used by Apple, Google and Microsoft, raises $16M
Not many startups can claim Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta as paying customers, but Confetti can. And the list doesn’t stop at a quintet with a collective market value of $10 trillion — the New York-based company says it works with Zoom, Netflix, Stripe, TikTok, Shopify, Adobe, LinkedIn, HubSpot and 30% of the Fortune…
8:18 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Transportation
Tesla is pushing a free one-month trial of its FSD Beta driver-assistance software to US customers
8:13 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Tesla is about to start giving every customer in the U.S. a one-month trial of its $12,000 driver-assistance system, which it calls Full Self-Driving Beta, provided they have a car…
Startups
Former Nextdoor exec raises $25 million for PipeDreams, a startup rolling up HVAC companies
8:04 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer also couldn’t ignore the potential to solve a problem he…
Ionobell, a seed stage startup, claims its silicon material will be cheaper than the established competition.
Startups
Fireworks.ai open source API puts generative AI in reach of any developer
7:00 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Just about everyone is trying to get a piece of the generative AI action these days. While the majority of the focus remains on the model vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic…
The startup is attempting to solve hydrogen’s supply problem by focusing not on novel materials, but on manufacturing.
Where we’ll be next
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Washington, D.C.
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StrictlyVC – London
London
Biotech & Health
Food-as-medicine startup Chiyo helps postpartum moms with nutrition after raising $3 million
6:30 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Unlike other meal service providers that want you to be customers for life, Chiyo’s goal is to get you off of its program.
Startups
Just 4 days left to cash in on early-bird savings to TC Early Stage 2024
6:00 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Time is slipping away! With only 4 days left, the clock is ticking on your chance to snag the early-bird savings for TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. Don’t miss out —…
Crypto
0G Labs launches with whopping $35M pre-seed to build a modular AI blockchain
6:00 am PDT • March 26, 2024
As the crypto space heats back up, so has funding for new startups. 0G Labs, a web3 infrastructure firm,” has raised $35 million in a pre-seed round, the team exclusively…
Since the last time we spoke, Viam didn’t pivot exactly, according to founder and CEO Eliot Horowitz — it’s more of a “rebrand.” Roughly six months ago, the Manhattan-based startup…
Hardware
Picogrid scores new funding to connect the military’s stovepipe systems
6:00 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Autonomous systems have become essential to military operations around the world, but there’s almost no infrastructure available to unify these systems at scale. As a result, operators in the field…
Startups
Thoras.ai automates resource allocation for Kubernetes workloads
6:00 am PDT • March 26, 2024
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Thoras.ai founders Nilo Rahmani and Jennifer Rahmani weren’t even a twinkle in their parents’ eyes, but their parents were forced to flee…
Crypto
Web3 investment firm Borderless Capital acquires CTF Capital to bring AI and quant expertise
5:49 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Borderless Capital, an investment firm that specializes in web3, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring CTF Capital, a quantitative trading and asset management firm headquartered in Miami, with technology and…
Privacy
Worldcoin hit with another ban order in Europe citing risks to kids
5:36 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Controversial crypto biometrics venture Worldcoin has been almost entirely booted out of Europe after being hit with another temporary ban — this time in Portugal. The order from the country’s…
Biotech & Health
Metyos is building a biowearable to monitor chronic kidney disease
4:00 am PDT • March 26, 2024
Alexandre Boulanger is better known for building self-balancing exoskeletons at Wandercraft. For his next trick, the Paris-based robotics entrepreneur is fronting work on a far lighter kind of wearable: An…
AI
AI is a data problem — Cyera is raising up to $300M on a $1.5B valuation to secure it
2:51 am PDT • March 26, 2024
A cybersecurity startup called Cyera is betting that the next big challenge in enterprise data protection will be AI, and it’s raising a big round of funding as demand picks…
