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Flint raised a $5 million seed round led by Accel, with participation from Sheryl Sandberg’s fund, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, and prior investor Neo.

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Co-founded by a former Uber Freight product manager, and backed by Uber's lead seed investor, FleetWorks is quickly scooping up customers in the trucking world.

Aquawise uses satellite images and a physics-based AI model to monitor and predict water quality at aquaculture farms.

Lachy Groom backs Airbound in $8.65M seed round as it launches pilot in Bengaluru.

Slate Auto CEO Chris Barman drives her new electric truck — literally — onto the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Don’t miss this world-first EV reveal and conversation about the future of mobility. Register now to save up to $624 and an extra 15% to 30% on group passes before rates increase after October 17.

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ZoraSafe is designed to protect some of the least protected internet users out there: your parents and grandparents.

Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.

Cerca is a dating app that sets users up with mutual friends. The company is part of Startup Battlefield and will show off its tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 in San Francisco.

AI researcher Andrew Tulloch reportedly announced his departure to employees in a message on Friday.

Prediction markets startup Kalshi raised $300 million, while Polymarket nabbed up to $2 billion.

Super.money, the fintech arm of Flipkart, is looking to raise a round of funding at a $1 billion valuation, after securing $50 million from Flipkart to date.

a16z’s Anish Acharya calls India office reports “entirely fake news!”

Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek.

Datacurve uses a “bounty hunter” system to attract skilled software engineers to complete the hardest-to-source datasets.

"For us, Pittsburgh isn’t a 'backup plan' to the Bay Area," the language learning app said.

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