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Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.

Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding.

On June 9, over 1,000 founders, investors, and decision-makers will gather for TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. This isn’t just foot traffic. It’s a full day of concentrated deal flow.

Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires.

While technically a borough, staying in West Chester, PA feels like a getaway in a charming, walkable small city. The streets are wide and lined with red brick, the architecture spans

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Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.

Today, heritage brands occupy a difficult position. Squeezed between private label that sets value and insurgent brands that speak to values. Having worked on several, I have found that they often take the same approach of maximizing margins, targeting younger consumers, and launching line extensions and PPA. But in my experience, “heritage” is not a ‘one size fits all’ strategy. It is a starting condition, and different starting conditions require different discipline*, especially when budgets...

Category Benchmarks are the reference point for the category. They define quality expectations. They anchor price ladders. They shape what “normal” looks like. They are widely distributed, culturally familiar, and top-of-mind. Their risk is gradual dilution of differentiation. This paradox is structural because the systems that protect their current position often make long-term growth harder. This article is part of Branding Strategy Insider’s newsletter. Join the world’s smartest marketers and subscribe here for actionable insights delivered directly...

Personally, I’ve been a big fan of Gelato as a print on demand vendor for a while now. They’ve always seemed like a company with their “finger on the pulse”, going eco-friendly before most of their competitors, building a worldwide…

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Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins face scrutiny, players like Stripe re-enter the conversation, and startups either find traction or flame out. The hype cycle is over, or at least taking a break. So what comes next?  On […]

Apply to speak at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by April 17 for a chance to lead a roundtable or breakout session for 1,000 founders and investors. If you’ve built, backed, or operated inside high-growth startups, your experience could shape how the next wave of founders scales.

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Everyone says that launching an Etsy store is easy, and for the most part it is. You don’t need to worry about website design, and you’re launching products on a marketplace that already has millions of buyers, so that takes…

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Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after being a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.

The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.

AI has brought the startup world the rise of companies that instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.

In the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, Ukrainian startups have done more than survive: they are still building and growing.

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