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Alation acquires Numbers Station to bolster its AI agent offerings

AIMPWAMay 20, 2025

Enterprise data intelligence platform Alation acquired Numbers Station to help give its customers access to AI agents that run on top of their structured data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Numbers Station, which builds AI-native data applications, is a Series A-stage startup that’s raised more than $17 million in venture capital from firms...

Adaptation Ventures is a new angel investor group focused on disability and accessibility tech

AIMPWAMay 20, 2025

The global assistive technology market was valued at more than $22 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow substantially by 2030. Despite the potential market size, many founders building tech to help people with disabilities struggle to secure the kind of early funding needed to get their companies off the ground in the first...

Brex partners with former competitor Zip, with an eye on reducing cash burn to get to an IPO

AIMPWAMay 20, 2025

Brex has once again made the surprising, but perhaps realistic, decision to partner with another one-time competitor. This time Zip, the CEOs of both companies told TechCrunch exclusively. In April 2022, fintech Brex announced it was making “a big push” into both the enterprise and software. The news was notable considering that Brex originally was...

Gravitee, a platform that helps companies manage APIs, raises $60M

AIMPWAMay 20, 2025

Gravitee, a platform designed to help companies manage their APIs and other digital traffic pipelines, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC. The new capital, which brings Gravitee’s total raised to just over $125 million, will be used...

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Affiniti’s 20- and 22-year-old founders raise $17M led by SignalFire just 6 months after an $11M seed

AIMPWAMay 20, 2025

Affiniti founders Aaron Bai, 20, and Sahil Phadnis, 22, are building the kind of expense management software for main street small businesses that tech startups have enjoyed for years. Their growth has been so impressive that six months after raising an $11 million seed round, they raised a $17 million Series A, led by Signal...

Sylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and service used cars in Egypt

AIMPWAMay 20, 2025

Cairo-based Sylndr has raised $15.7 million as it expands beyond online used car sales into auto financing, servicing, and tools for dealers. The round was led by Development Partners International’s Nclude Fund and included follow-on investments from Algebra Ventures and Nclude. The company, which operates in Egypt’s fast-growing but under-digitized vehicle market, said the latest...

Save $900 on Disrupt 2025 tickets before prices rise on May 25

AIMPWAMay 19, 2025

Tick-tock! Time’s almost up to save up to $900 on individual passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025! Or go big and grab an Early Bird ticket now and get a second for your +1 at 90% off — but only for a limited time. These unbeatable deals disappear May 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT — don’t...

Deel wants Rippling to hand over any agreements involving paying the alleged spy

AIMPWAMay 19, 2025

Deel has lobbed a new volley in the ongoing legal battle with rival HR tech startup Rippling. Deel filed a motion, containing a series of letters, asking the Irish court to make Rippling hand over information. In one letter, Deel wants unredacted versions of witness affidavits, including the famed one by former Rippling employee, Keith...

Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees

AIMPWAMay 17, 2025

Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring. But it’s now placed three new ads on YC’s job board for “AI agents only” and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it...

AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research

AIMPWAMay 16, 2025

AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. Sully Omarr, one of the founders of Ottogrid, announced the deal Friday in a post on X. He didn’t disclose the terms. Ottogrid will sunset its product, according to Omarr, but give customers “ample...

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Uzbekistan’s first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation

AIMPWAAugust 5, 2025

At a time when the world feels increasingly divided between East and West, Uzbekistan has emerged as a rare middle ground, as the Central Asian nation’s homegrown unicorn, Uzum, has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China’s Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight...

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

AIMPWAAugust 5, 2025

Indian startup Jeh Aerospace founders Vishal Sanghavi and Venkatesh Mudragalla have had a front row seat to the commercial aircraft sector and its growing production bottleneck. The two former Tata Group executives spent close to two decades in different positions at the company and worked on projects that included participation from global aerospace companies, including...

What founders should think about if looking to raise a Series C

AIMPWAAugust 4, 2025

Startup founders face a perplexing and even contradictory capital market in 2025, according to Sapphire Ventures partner Cathy Gao. “Capital isn’t scarce. But access to that capital is harder than ever,” she said. Gao, who spoke at TechCrunch’s All Stage conference in July, said it’s possible for startup founders, especially those in the later Series...

A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.

AIMPWAAugust 4, 2025

Dribbble has permanently banned dozens of designers from its platform following a new effort to pivot to a marketplace and chase monetization. This includes one of the platform’s most well-known designers, Gleb Kuznetsov, founder of the San Francisco-based design studio Milkinside. Dribbble deleted his account with its over 210 million followers because he shared his contact information with prospective clients through...

CICU Urges MSME Ministry To Modernise Tool Rooms, Simplify Support Schemes

AIMPWAAugust 4, 2025

Ludhiana, Aug 4 (KNN) A delegation from the Chamber of Industrial & Commercial Undertakings has called upon the government to modernise aging industrial infrastructure and streamline complex support schemes that are hampering growth in the country’s micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) sector. The industry representatives argue that current bureaucratic processes are preventing smaller businesses...

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