TechCrunch Startup News

By TechCrunchNews Technology Tech News

TechCrunch Startup News episodes

June 13, 2025 Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient
The company, based in the U.K., offers a productivity suite to streamline the legal drafting and review process.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
4 min
June 13, 2025 Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup
Standard Nuclear was the winning bidder for Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's fuel-related assets at a bankruptcy auction.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 min
June 12, 2025 Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
6 min
June 12, 2025 Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
7 min
June 11, 2025 Mitra Chem is raising $50M for its cheaper, domestic battery materials
Mitra Chem is developing materials to make lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries store more energy.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 min
June 11, 2025 XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 min
June 10, 2025 An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs and other socially taboo products
Impact investor and advisor Christian Tooley posed a simple question to the audience at SXSW London last week: What if investors put aside societal prudence for profit? Tooley was mainly referring to vice clauses, the restrictions that limited partners place on venture firms to guardrail their investments.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 min
June 10, 2025 Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
6 min
June 09, 2025 Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
6 min
June 09, 2025 North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment
Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs poured $69.7 billion into North America-based AI and machine learning startups across 1,528 deals.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 min