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Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

Anthropic cut off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models, also PlayerZero raised $15M and Figma’s stock soared in its IPO

Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments

Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup

Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

This TechCrunch podcast features an interview with Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana, who discusses the concept of Total Addressable Market (TAM) for startups. Sardana categorizes TAM into three buckets: known, emerging, and invisible markets, providing examples of each. She emphasizes the importance of understa...

This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store ... and Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.

Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI

Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel

Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone

Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup

This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents

Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot

The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions