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Picogrid scores new funding to connect the military’s stovepipe systems

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

Stellar Sleep app gets initial funding to awaken root cause of chronic insomnia in users

Stellar Sleep’s mobile app taps into psychological methods to help users break the cycle of those frequent nights awake.

Meet Tanda, your friendly neighborhood savings, lending network

Tanda offers a peer-to-peer savings and lending network to small businesses as a way to retain employees, reduce turnover and minimize burnout.

Y Combinator-backed Automat turns videos into workflow automations

Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose were hired together out of college at Google Creative Lab, Google’s tech and culture incubator, and spent three and a half years launching products like the AI Test K

Datasaur lets you build a model automatically from a set of labels

Long before people were talking about ChatGPT and generative AI, companies like Datasaur were dealing with the nuts and bolts of building machine learning models, helping label things to train the mod

Runway lands $27.5M to streamline financial planning for businesses

Siqi Chen, the former president of Sandbox VR, the brick-and-mortar VR experience franchise, didn’t always have a strong grasp of finance. And it’s something he felt self-conscious about.

Y Combinator-backed 0pass seeks to replace passwords in the enterprise

Several years ago, Noah Stanford teamed up with Michael Melone to found 0pass, a startup that aims to make it easier for companies to replace usernames and passwords with biometrics, like Touch ID and

PermitFlow advances construction permitting automation with $5.5M in new capital

PermitFlow has software for developers and general contractors to streamline the construction permit application and management processes.

Simple HealthKit is taking on health equity with at-home diagnostics, treatment

Simple HealthKit provides at-home and in-clinic diagnostics, performs its own testing and telehealth services and works with pharmacy partners for treatment and follow-up care.

Pano has a burning desire to apply AI smarts to wildfire detection

As the weather gets hot and dry, things get a little bit tense these days. While it’s been possible for humans to be on the lookout for fires (there are even organizations that make it easy to v

Garry Tan’s return is a full circle moment for Y Combinator

Initialized Capital was venture capitalist Garry Tan’s answer to a need first highlighted by Y Combinator. As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to

Garry Tan is the next president and CEO of Y Combinator

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been

Investment clubs are cool again, and maybe community is, too

The rise of group investing is just as much about culture as it is about cash.

This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out su

Why Twitter anons are sending crypto to celebrities

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about a hack that gave new, ironic meaning to the word “trustless.” This week, we’ll get into one of the most polarizing aspects

Arena raises money from Peter Thiel and David Petraeus for its decision-making AI

Can AI automate enterprise decision-making? It’s an exceptionally broad and challenging task — assuming it’s within the realm of possibility. But that’s what startup Arena clai

How fintech startups are navigating the extension-round rush

We asked eight fintech investors: How popular are extension rounds proving? Are you seeing more companies opt to raise extensions rather than new rounds compared to, say, 2021 and 2020?

Eclipse Foods isn’t out to substitute dairy — it’s on a mission to replace it

The company’s ice cream mix is the base for Smashburger’s new non-dairy milkshakes, representing “the first nationally available non-dairy milkshakes at a fast-casual restaurant chain.”

Announcing the startups pitching at the TC City Spotlight: Columbus pitch-off

Today, TechCrunch is virtually hosting TC City Spotlight: Columbus — an event shining a spotlight on the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. The event will feature panels high

Astroforge raises $13M seed round for asteroid mining ambitions

Although we’ve long understood that asteroids are not simply the rubble of the universe, but potentially profitable stores of precious minerals, humanity has never been able to unlock this value. Y
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