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TechCrunch Startup News

Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.

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Kevin Hart’s VC firm led $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple, also, Electroflow promises to make LFP material for 40% less than Chinese producers

Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool

Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science, plus, Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist

CommanderAI building Salesforce for the waste management industry, also, a year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B

Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks; also, AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews

The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel; plus, ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common ground

Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup, raised huge $21M seed; former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance

Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix food supply chains, also Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries

Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar

Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand; plus Y Combinator's ‘Early Decision’ is for students who want to graduate first, build later

Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD; plus, Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business

Telo raises $20 million to build tiny electric trucks for cities; also, Sila opens U.S. factory to make silicon anodes for energy dense EV batteries

Tim Chen has quietly become of one the most sought-after solo investors; and AI company Superpanel raises $5.3M seed to automate legal intake

Bluesky says it’s getting more aggressive about moderation and enforcement, also, Oura ring maker raising $875M Series E

Nvidia eyes $500M investment into self-driving tech startup Wayve, also, UK fintech Tide becomes a TPG-backed unicorn

Indian fintech Jar turns profitable by enabling millions to save in gold

How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business, also, Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI

Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built

Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round; also, Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s “warehouse work” with embodied-AI robots

Same-day delivery comes to space, as Impulse promises satellite transport in hours, not months, and more

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