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New $5M deep tech fund aims to lure founders from universities
Spend time at a university, and inevitably you’ll come across someone who has a plan to…
Meet the new VC firm secretly backed by Volkswagen
A new venture firm called Leitmotif has been on a quiet blitz for the last 16…
Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training
Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen.…
Carta settles two more lawsuits that alleged sexual harassment and discrimination
Cap table management firm Carta made headlines in 2020 when its former marketing VP Emily Kramer…
Here are five startups that are running Super Bowl ads this year
Super Bowl weekend is here with the Philadelphia Eagles set to take on the Kansas City…
Pendulum’s AI-driven platform helps enterprises better predict supply and demand
Supply chains have had a tumultuous few years, beginning in 2020, when COVID-19 upended legacy global…
Hitachi Ventures raises $400M fund to invest in everything from fusion to AI
Hitachi Ventures secured $400 million for a fourth fund, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. The size…
Data analytics startup Athenic AI wants to be an enterprise’s central nervous system
Jared Zhao originally got interested in data analytics during his time at UC Berkeley because he…
Meteomatics eyes U.S. expansion for its enterprise-focused weather forecasting tools
Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his Ph.D. in mathematics, focused on…
Coval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving cars
What do AI voice agents and self-driving cars have in common? Their performance can be evaluated…
Sales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memes
When George Avetisov was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup HYPR, he spent a lot…
Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025
The AI startup market is sprawling, from companies looking to develop new chips, to those using…
Failed fintech startup Bench racked up over $65 million in debt, documents reveal
Bench, the accounting startup that imploded over the holidays, filed for bankruptcy in Canada on January…