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Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation

LangChain raised $125 million at a $1.25 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents was raising fresh funds at a valuation of at least $1 billion. The deal was led by IVP, as we previously reported. New investors … Read more

Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, raises $250M and launches beta

Sesame, a conversational AI startup and smart glasses maker, has raised a $250 million Series B round and is opening up its beta to a select group of testers, the company announced Tuesday. The startup, headed by former Oculus co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe and Ankit Kumar, former CTO of AR startup Ubiquity6, is working … Read more

Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai already raised at $4B+ valuation

Fal.ai, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new round valuing the company at over $4 billion, four people familiar with the deal said. The company raised approximately $250 million, two of the people said. Major investors in the round are Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, according to … Read more

Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs 

Periodic Labs, a new startup by one of OpenAI’s most respected researchers, Liam Fedus, and his former Google Brain colleague, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, came out of stealth last month with an enormous $300 million seed round. It was led by Felicis and included a who’s who of angels and other top VCs.  The startup began … Read more

Celebrity chef Mario Carbone backs AI-powered loyalty startup Magic in $10 million seed round

Mario Carbone’s flagship restaurant in Greenwich Village has around 75 seats, representing one of the most sought-after reservations in New York City. For diners hoping to score a slot, the process is almost an art form—a blend of opening Resy at the exact right second, or knowing someone who knows someone. But for Carbone, deciding … Read more

Exclusive: Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo raises $500 million round led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital and Greenoaks

As fervor around stablecoins grows from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, one of the most high-profile new crypto projects has drummed up a massive coffer of funds to back its ambitious plans. Tempo, a payments-focused blockchain developed by the fintech giant Stripe and the blockchain venture firm Paradigm, has raised $500 million in fresh funding … Read more

24 hours to spotlight your startup at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

You’re looking for big ways to grow your startup, whether that means securing investors, landing enterprise deals, or generating a nonstop pipeline of leads. This is your final moment.  You have less than 24 hours — and only a couple of tables left — to lock in the most valuable growth opportunity of the year at TechCrunch … Read more

How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems

Andrew Lissimore has been running the audio apparel site Headphones.com for nearly a decade now. While audiophiles have a high affinity toward their gear and want to try out new gadgets, Lissimore wasn’t satisfied with continuously spending money on platforms like Meta and Google to acquire new customers; he wanted to find a way to … Read more

The real reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup

Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said Thursday it’s working with Google’s DeepMind division to fine tune — and even improve — the operation of its forthcoming Sparc reactor using AI. The companies’ plan will simulate the plasma that will burn inside CFS’s reactor using specialized DeepMind software known as Torax. They also plan on … Read more

Defunct electric aircraft startup Lilium’s tech lives on over at Archer

Electric aircraft startup Lilium may have ceased operations a year ago, but its insolvency filing wasn’t quite the end of the German-based company. There were multiple failed attempts to restructure the company, including a last-ditch effort by Mobile Uplift Corporation, a company set up by investors from Europe and North America, to acquire the operating … Read more

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