Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush” marches on.
TechCrunch spoke to investors to find the hottest startups in the Spring 2026 YC batch. Some of them commanded valuations of over $175 million, VCs said.
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, rela…
Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there’s a data problem that needs to be solved.
With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.
Anthropic’s popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.