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38 consumer startup founders lobby over Trump tariffs: One faces a surprise $200K bill
Small businesses could be crushed under President Trump’s increased tariffs, according to an open letter by…
TechCrunch Mobility: Jeff Bezos backs a secretive EV startup and Lucid snaps up Nikola’s assets
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future…
Mira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for a massive $2B seed round
Thinking Machines Lab, the new AI startup from ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly attempting to…
Bezos-backed EV startup Slate Auto’s pickup truck spotted in the wild
Just one day after TechCrunch revealed that Jeff Bezos is backing a secretive EV startup called…
Artisan, the ‘stop hiring humans’ AI agent startup, raises $25M — and is still hiring humans
It’s been a tough but exciting year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI…
Inside the EV startup secretly backed by Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto that could…
Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisers
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new AI venture, Thinking Machines Lab, has gained two new prominent advisers:…
Startup Battlefield 200 is calling. Apply to enter
Founders, the battlefield is calling! Startup Battlefield 200 applications are now live — and the race…
Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisors
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new AI venture, Thinking Machines Lab, has gained two new prominent advisors:…
Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino’s new startup is rethinking the electrical transformer
Former Tesla executive Drew Baglino has a new startup developing solid-state transformers for the electric grid,…
AI video startup Moonvalley raised a fresh $43M, SEC filing shows
Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, has raised a fresh $43…
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla takes a hit, tariff chaos begins, and one EV startup hits a milestone
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future…
A web3 startup aims to change the game in the tariff wars
With President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs coming out today — a day he is…
Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026
Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by billionaire co-founder of Robinhood Baiju Bhatt, has raised a…
Khosla’s Keith Rabois leads $11.5M Series A for startup Roam, calls it ‘the future of the housing market’
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mortgage interest rates dropped to historic lows — as low as 2.5%.…
An accounting startup has turned tax preparations into a Pokémon Showdown game
Accounting software company Open Ledger has launched a new product in time for tax day. Meet…
Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp
While working on their MBAs at Harvard Business School, Colombian immigrants Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez…
Qualcomm acquires generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI
Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, an AI research company headquartered in Hanoi,…
Why Your Startup Should Run an AI Hackathon (Yesterday) | by Sagiv Malihi | Aleph | Apr, 2025
First thing I learned? AI hackathons are definitely not just for engineers. This surprised even me…
Fashion startup CaaStle appears to be in trouble
CaaStle, a startup that launched in 2011 as a plus-sized clothing subscription service and in 2018…