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Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone. The company was founded in 2021 by Manchester Institute of Biotechnology scientists Dr. Andrew Currin, Dr. Tim Eyes, and Dr. Andy Almond and spun out of the university. The startup…

SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk 24 years ago, has finally made its IPO filing public. And once the company goes public, Musk will be at its center as CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board. The hefty filing, posted after markets closed Wednesday, shows a company that has developed far beyond its…

Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale…

Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform…

Image Credits:Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images 12:27 PM PDT · May 18, 2026 Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every industry: AI is creating jobs for some…

When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple of years,” Susan said on stage at a recent StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. More than…

In Brief Posted: 1:17 PM PDT · May 16, 2026 Image Credits:z_wei / Getty Images The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das.  Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in…

Newly unredacted crash reports reveal some of the troubles Tesla has had as it tries to scale its robotaxis…

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers’ data without a password…