Entrepreneurship
AI Personal Assistant Startup Instinct Lands Billion-Dollar Round
Instinct, a San Francisco company building an AI personal assistant that runs errands for you, announced a $1 billion Series C on Monday. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Coatue backed...
AI Agents for Small Business Arrive Free Through Meta Muse
Meta rolled out Muse for Small Businesses on Tuesday, opening a free door to AI agents for small business that plug into software owners already pay for. It connects...
The $3 Trillion Problem Hiding in Corporate Contracts, and the AI Built to Find It
Terzo says Fortune 500 companies have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars that leaked out of deals they had already won. Across the global B2B economy, trillions of...
Startup Funding News: OpenAI Backs a $36M Biosecurity Bet
In the latest startup funding news, OpenAI has quietly backed Red Queen Bio, an AI-native biosecurity startup that has now raised $36 million to design antibody drugs meant to...
Brain-Computer Interface Funding Crosses $250M Mark
Precision Neuroscience closed an oversubscribed $250 million Series D for its brain-computer interface work, a raise big enough to push its valuation past $1 billion. Pershing Square Inc. and...
Digital Avatar Trend Tests Founders’ Personal Brand Strategy
TechCrunch reporter Dominic-Madori Davis spent a couple of days in Synthesia’s studio and walked out with an interactive digital avatar of herself that can answer questions out loud, in...
Construction Robotics Gets a Boost From Nexterity’s Pipefitting Bot
Lindsey Elliott spent years in ExxonMobil’s engineering and planning ranks before deciding the most overlooked opportunity in industrial tech was not another piece of software. It was a robot...
When Should Businesses Consider eLearning Staff Augmentation?
Training teams rarely run at a comfortable pace for long. A product launch moves up. A compliance update lands late. A client asks for three modules sooner than anyone...
AI Coworkers Get a New Home as Ando Raises $20M
Sara Du just raised $20 million for Ando, a team messaging app built so AI agents can join the conversation as real teammates instead of bolted-on bots. The pre-seed...
Manufacturing Procurement Software Lands $17M for Axya
Manufacturers still run purchasing on spreadsheets and email chains more often than most founders would guess, and a Montreal startup just raised money to change that. Axya locked in...
