Meta’s Tamagotchi bet and what it means for AI startups
TechCrunch's Equity crew unpacks Meta's consumer AI strategy and the founders building…
Reykjavik’s 50skills banks €5.3M to put agents inside HR teams
The Icelandic people-workflow platform is hiring across sales, marketing and community after…
Brussels and the EIB court pension money for Europe’s scale-ups
Thirteen institutional investors have signed a voluntary pact to fund European technology…
Bain’s venture arm banks $1.6B to bet on the post-AGI era
Bain Capital Ventures raised a $1.6B fund, its eleventh, to back AI…
Open weights pay off as Arcee AI clears a $1B valuation
Arcee AI raised an undisclosed Series B that values the open-weight model…
Rune collects $40M to put AI racks behind solar farms
Rune raised $40M led by Spark Capital and launched RELIC, a computing…
Iceland’s Treble banks $18M to simulate how AI hears the world
Reykjavik-based Treble raised $18M for its acoustic simulation platform, which generates training…
Sikka’s Hang Ten banks $53M in a second seed weeks later
Hang Ten Systems raised $53M in a second seed round less than…
Startup capital hits $42B for August as mega-rounds persist
Global startup funding climbs 122% year over year to $42B in August.
Lyte closes $165M Series C for sensor-first robotics
Ex-Apple engineers' robotics perception startup Lyte banks $165M at a $1.6B valuation.
