Mach Industries is emerging from stealth mode to take center stage, bringing artificial intelligence into one of the world’s most complex and controversial sectors: defense. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, CEO and founder Ethan Thornton will step onto the AI Stage…
Venture capital firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the firm’s limited partners, that their personal information was stolen by hackers in an earlier data breach. In a statement on September 4, the VC giant said it completed…
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is introducing an always-on AI agent to help sellers on its platform run their businesses. The company is updating its AI tool for third-party sellers, called Seller Assistant, to handle tasks on the seller’s…
More than a decade ago, Jason Citron took the Disrupt stage to pitch his early-stage company in the Startup Battlefield competition. He was a scrappy founder pitching his vision. Today, he has built Discord into one of the most successful…
Waymo has reached an agreement with the ride-hailing company Lyft to launch a robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026. The company announced it will begin testing its fleet of all-electric and autonomous Jaguar I-Pace vehicles in the Nashville area in…
When most kids rebel against their families, they might become a ski bum, join a band, or go to art school. Shen Ming Lee decided to start a company. Lee told TechCrunch, “I grew up in the conventional palm oil…
Lovable has quickly become one of the most talked-about startups of the year. It is breaking records and making headlines as one of the fastest-growing software companies in history. To mark the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch, co-founder and CEO Anton…
Icarus Robotics cofounders Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer spent hours interviewing astronauts about what it was like working in space as they developed their startup idea. Their big takeaway was that the work was often more about cargo logistics than…
In an AI-driven software world where speed is the defining currency, Blacksmith has raised a new round of funding led by Google Ventures. This investment comes just four months after its seed round and is intended to accelerate how code…
As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies must approach safety differently than when robots operated separately from people. Sonair believes its sensors can help these companies achieve their safety goals with a solution that is both superior and more…
