Another Y Combinator Demo Day took place on Thursday, but this batch looked a little different. While every cohort brings a fresh wave of founders, the startups presenting this week skewed far more toward deep tech than in past years. As we do every quarter, TechCrunch asked early-stage VCs to name the hottest startups in…
In Brief Posted: 12:21 PM PDT · September 12, 2026 Image Credits:Tesla / Tesla The long-awaited second generation of the Tesla Roadster might finally be ready for the public. In a post on X on Saturday, the electric vehicle company simply wrote, “Go for launch,” with a graphic showing a “10.01” date — so expect…
Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this October…
The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT…
Image Credits:TechCrunch / Halo Creative 1:33 PM PDT · September 11, 2026 Book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 by September 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Tables are limited and can sell out before the deadline. If you’re coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to find customers, meet investors, build partnerships, or put your product…
As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests. In the United Kingdom, complaints to the housing ombudsman more than doubled since the introduction of ChatGPT, rising from 2600 in 2022 to just over 7,000 last year. The United…
Bending Spoons is continuing its trend of buying once-sought-after software companies for pennies on the dollar. This time, the Italian company is buying Miro for $1.36 billion in cash (equity value of $1.79 billion), a mighty dip in valuation for the once-hot workplace collaboration startup that was awarded a price tag of $17.5 billion in…
Cognition’s valuation multiple is higher than Cursor’s was before selling to SpaceX…
Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones. Over and over again, they heard the same thing from fusion companies: “We would ideally buy many of the components to make our our control system,…
UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced a $20 million B extension round on Wednesday, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million. The company’s last major raise was four years ago, its co-founder and CEO Theo Saville told TechCrunch. Saville launched CloudNC in 2015 with Chris Emery, now the company’s chief science officer, and…
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