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Reload announces a $2.275 million raise in a round led by Anthemis and the launch of its first AI employee, Epic.

Mirai raised a $10 million seed round to improve how AI models run on devices like smartphones and laptops.

“I think we're the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site."

One of the most consequential decisions early-stage founders have to make is who they will bring on as their founding team. That’s why this season on Build Mode, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. 

Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it easier to get started, but those early infrastructure choices can have unforeseen consequences once startups move beyond […]

Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it easier to get started, but those early infrastructure choices can have unforeseen consequences once startups move beyond […]

Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers.

Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it's generating annual recurring revenue of more than $100 million, thanks to surging demand by small businesses and non-technical users.

SpendRule, launched last summer, is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare systems track their spending.

Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business. 

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

Will the Epstein revelations lead to broader fallout in Silicon Valley?

TechCrunch spoke to a16z partner Joshua Lu for some tips on standing out for the Speedrun program.

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged," according to a former employee.

As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital's earlier days.