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This mental health chatbot aims to fill the counseling gap at understaffed schools

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called Sonny to help. As described in the Wall Street Journal, Sonny is a chatbot that relies on a combination of human staff and AI. When students text their questions to Sonny,...

The lesson of Larry Ellison’s misadventures in farming

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

Larry Ellison’s leap into farming with his company, Sensei Farms, serves up a classic reminder: being a genius in one arena doesn’t mean success in another. As the WSJ reports, the Oracle co-founder set out to reinvent agriculture on Hawaii’s Lāna’i Island, which he scooped up for $300 million back in 2012. Eight years and...

Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

For decades, patents have been a bone of contention in the technology world, seen by some as a way to protect intellectual property, but by critics as a blunt weapon against innovation. In the age of AI, they are once again getting revisited. New York startup Patlytics has developed an AI-enabled patent analytics platform to...

Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

Pre-Series A founders, this is your moment! If you’re ready to showcase your game-changing innovations on a global stage, the battlefield awaits. Applications for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 — the premier startup pitch competition — are officially OPEN. This is your shot to shine! Step onto the global stage and showcase your groundbreaking startup to...

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

The tech layoff wave continued through 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, 2024 saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Large companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap, and Microsoft conducted sizable layoffs in 2024, while smaller-sized startups also experienced cuts, and in some...

Thoma Bravo raises €1.8B for its first European fund

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has closed its inaugural European fund at €1.8 billion ($1.9 billion), through which it plans to take equity stakes in midsized software companies across the continent. Europe has no shortage of homegrown venture capital funds — the likes of Atomico and Cherry Ventures have closed early- and growth-stage funds in...

Serverless cloud platform Koyeb now lets developers spin up Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

Just a few weeks after chipmaker Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in funding, developers can now try out Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators on Koyeb. Tenstorrent sells AI processors built around the RISC-V instruction set architecture, and has developed its own open source neural network library, TT-NN, and open source low-level programming model, TT-Metalium. Tenstorrent is part...

University spin-out Afynia secures $5M seed to commercialize its microRNA panel test for endometriosis

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

Canadian biotech startup Afynia Laboratories, a spin-out from McMaster University in Ontario, has picked up $5 million in seed funding to commercialize a blood test for endometriosis — a medical condition that can afflict people with a uterus, causing problems like chronic pelvic pain and fertility issues. Endometriosis affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. Getting...

DocUnlock wants to solve a customs bottleneck

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

When goods enter the U.S., they have to be declared to U.S. customs so the importer can be charged the proper taxes. That applies to everything from a consumer ordering clothes from a brand based overseas to every single item on a massive container ship. When it comes to commercial importing, filling out the necessary...

Apptronik’s humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves

AIMPWAFebruary 26, 2025

Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots, on Tuesday announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil. The deal arrives two weeks after Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A financing round aimed at scaling up production of its Apollo robot. The Jabil deal is the second major pilot announced by Apptronik....

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The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’

AIMPWAJune 15, 2025

While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused...

Alexa von Tobel has high hopes for ‘fintech 3.0’

AIMPWAJune 15, 2025

It’s been 10 years since Alexa von Tobel sold her financial planning startup Learnvest to Northwestern Mutual for $250 million. Since then, von Tobel became Northwestern Mutual’s first chief digital officer, then chief innovation officer, before launching an early-stage venture firm of her own, Inspired Capital, with former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. She’s...

The investor experience at TechCrunch All Stage: One floor, infinite deal flow

AIMPWAJune 14, 2025

TechCrunch All Stage isn’t a waiting room for warm intros — it’s a floor full of founders, ideas, and breakout potential. For VCs, it’s a rare chance to skip the filters and meet the future of tech in one place, on one day, with no layers between you and the next standout story. Whether you’re...

Clay secures a new round at a $3B valuation, sources say

AIMPWAJune 13, 2025

Clay, a sales automation startup, has raised a Series C round at an approximate $3 billion valuation, led by Capital G, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. Clay and Capital G didn’t respond to a request for comment. The new round comes just a month after the New York startup announced that...

Zevo’s EV-only car-share fleet is helping Tesla owners make money

AIMPWAJune 13, 2025

Hebron Sher remembers daydreaming in 2019 when Elon Musk promised Tesla’s cars would become robotaxis, capable of going out in the world to make money for owners. Sher was already a user of the car-sharing platform Turo, and the idea of turning a Tesla into an even bigger moneymaker was an attractive proposition. But as...

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