A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world
20 Oct 2025
8m
TechCrunch · Business
TechCrunch Startup News
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Episodes
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you
20 Oct 2025
5m
General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips, also, Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO
16 Oct 2025
7m
Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices; also, Eightfold raised $35M for an AI digital twin startup
16 Oct 2025
10m
Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense
15 Oct 2025
5m
FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster
15 Oct 2025
6m
Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to build and update websites, and Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab
14 Oct 2025
8m
India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries
14 Oct 2025
6m
Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8B; also,
13 Oct 2025
3m
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
10 Oct 2025
6m
Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production; and Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams
09 Oct 2025
7m
Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere
09 Oct 2025
3m
Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for GM, Ford, and lots of startups
08 Oct 2025
5m
One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built
08 Oct 2025
5m
Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse; also, ÄIO invented a method to make edible fat from ag waste like sawdust
07 Oct 2025
9m
A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his AI memory startup, Supermemory
07 Oct 2025
5m
Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund
06 Oct 2025
7m
Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos; plus, If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs
06 Oct 2025
7m
A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes; also, New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million
03 Oct 2025
11m
How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance
02 Oct 2025
10m
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