Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
Episodes · 25
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
Jun 23, 2026 · 3m
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
Jun 22, 2026 · 5m
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names; plus, General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
Jun 19, 2026 · 5m
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Jun 18, 2026 · 4m
Startup Foundation Alloy developed a new alloying technique; plus, Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
Jun 17, 2026 · 8m
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world; plus, Theker building a factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
Jun 15, 2026 · 6m
Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source; Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their businessplus,
Jun 12, 2026 · 12m
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in; plus, Zest launches a restaurant discovery app
Jun 11, 2026 · 10m
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station; plus, so long FAANG and hello to MANGOS
Jun 10, 2026 · 6m
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
Jun 8, 2026 · 4m
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
Jun 5, 2026 · 9m
Brynn Putnam's Board raised $20M; plus, ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves
Jun 4, 2026 · 6m
Pacific Fusion’s latest prototype packs 440 gigawatts into an 80-nanosecond burst; plus, Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory; plus, Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
Jun 1, 2026 · 9m
Corgi doubled in value in 3 weeks; plus, Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
May 29, 2026 · 8m
SOND, a sleep tech startup, exits stealth with $7M; plus, Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M
May 28, 2026 · 11m
Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation; OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
May 27, 2026 · 4m
Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app; also, Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled ARR
May 26, 2026 · 9m
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century
May 25, 2026 · 6m
Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering; plus, Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation
May 22, 2026 · 6m
Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind; plus, NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer
May 21, 2026 · 10m
Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment; plus, Stilta helps companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
May 20, 2026 · 8m
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses; plus, Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
May 19, 2026 · 8m
Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware; plus, Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders