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Crypto and stablecoin startup Zerohash to raise $100 million at an almost $1 billion valuation

Stablecoin fever is still running hot. Zerohash, a crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup, is set to raise about $100 million at nearly a $1 billion valuation, according to two sources familiar with the deal. The publicly traded online brokerage Interactive Brokers is leading the funding round, said the two sources, who spoke to Fortune on … Read more

The exclusivity on OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition for AI coding startup Windsurf has expired

The exclusivity period on OpenAI’s $3 billion offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, an OpenAI spokesperson told Fortune. The expiration of the exclusivity period means that Windsurf is free to explore other options, roughly two months after OpenAI made the offer. It was not immediately clear if Windsurf is shopping the offer around … Read more

This AI startup offers employees a rent stipend benefit

Earlier this week I had an interview with one of the most hustle culture-driven founders I’ve talked to in a long time.  Sebastian Jimenez is the CEO and cofounder of Rilla, a software company that provides transcription solutions for sales and service teams. He doesn’t believe in work-life balance and expects his roughly 80 employees … Read more

Slate Auto: Everything you need to know about the Bezos-backed EV startup

In April 2025, a new company called Slate Auto came out of stealth and shocked the car industry. Not only was this startup focused on making an ultra-cheap, customizable electric pickup truck with funding from Jeff Bezos, but it had also been operating in secret for three years in Troy, Michigan — the backyard of … Read more

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Agora raises $50 million Series A led by crypto VC giant Paradigm

On Thursday, Agora became the latest stablecoin company to attract the attention of deep-pocketed venture investors, as the crypto startup announced a $50 million investment led by the blockchain-focused VC firm Paradigm. Cofounded by Nick van Eck—the son of the prominent investment management CEO Jan van Eck—along with crypto veterans Drake Evans and Joe McGrady, … Read more

Avoid the pitfalls that stall startup fundraising at TC All Stage

There’s no shortage of capital out there, but there’s even less room for error. Join a powerhouse panel at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston for “Fundraising Mistakes That Will Kill Your Round, and How to Avoid Them.” This Scale Stage breakout session is built specifically for early-stage founders who want to sidestep … Read more

Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building the next layer of AI search 

As generative AI reshapes industries, one of its most important yet invisible challenges is retrieval, the process of fetching the right data with relevant context from messy knowledge bases. Large language models (LLMs) are only as accurate as the information they can retrieve. That’s where ZeroEntropy wants to make its mark. The San Francisco-based startup, … Read more

Telegram blockchain startup TOP raises $28.5 million at $1 billion valuation

Crypto has a new unicorn. The Open Platform, one of the main app developers on the blockchain chosen by the messaging app Telegram, announced Thursday that it had raised a $28.5 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation.  The fintech specialist Ribbit Capital led the round, with participation from the crypto VC Pantera Capital. … Read more

Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in

Despite their imposing presence, quantum computers are delicate beasts, and their errors are among the main bottlenecks that the quantum computing community is actively working to address. Failing this, promising applications in finance, drug discovery, and materials science may never become real. That’s the reason why Google touted the error correction capacities of its latest … Read more

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