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The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety. That’s why we’re bringing Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley to the stage to speak about those very issues.

For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City — and we're bringing the kind of access you’d expect from an under-wraps event to the whole startup, VC, and dealmaking community.

The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Australian tech community. One startup walks away with automatic entry into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco — no application, no further competition, a guaranteed spot on the world’s most […]

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.

The prediction market’s Panamanian operation seems odd, even for a company whose CEO had his apartment raided by FBI agents.

It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage […]

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.

The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks.

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.

DPDP compliance costs for Indian startups: what to budget before 13 May 2027 Summary. Full compliance with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act is due on 13 May 2027. That is the date consent, notice, security safeguards, breach intimation and data-principal rights all become enforceable, and it is roughly 10 months away. The DPDP Rules 2025 were notified on 13 November 2025 and land in three phases: the Data Protection Board of India stood up immediately, penalties and Consent Manager registration begin on 13 November 2026, and everything else bites on 13 May 2027. The penalty schedule is not proportionate to your size: up to ₹250 crore for failing reasonable security safeguards, ₹200 crore for failing to notify a breach, and ₹150 crore for missing Significant Data Fiduciary obligations. There is no revenue or headcount exemption. The cost gap is where founders get hurt. Vendors routinely quote ₹15 lakh to ₹2 crore for DPDPA compliance, while a startup under 10,000 users can be substantively compliant for under ₹50,000 a year. India's privacy and data governance market is worth roughly $1 billion to $1.5 billion today, per IDfy founder Ashok Hariharan speaking to Inc42 in April 2026, and a lot of that revenue depends on you not reading the rules yourself. This is a budgeting guide, not a legal opinion. The rules are short. Read them, then price the work. The deadline that actually matters There are three dates, and only one of them is a real deadline for most startups. Phase Date What switches on Does it affect a typical startup? Phase 1 13 November 2025 Data Protection Board of India established, Rules notified No direct obligation, but the Board can already receive complaints Phase 2 13 November 2026 Consent Manager registration opens, penalty framework and enforcement powers begin Only if you intend to register as a Consent Manager Phase 3 13 May 2027 Notice, consent, security safeguards, breach intimation, retention, children's data, data-principal righ

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.

Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, […]