Justin McLeod, the CEO of Hinge, is stepping down from his role to launch a new AI dating product called Overtone. Match Group, the dating giant that owns apps like Hinge, Tinder, and OkCupid, is backing Overtone with pre-seed financing…
Naveen Rao, the former head of AI at Databricks, has raised 475 million dollars in seed capital at a 4.5 billion dollar valuation for his new startup, Unconventional AI. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures, with…
It has been quite a year for Coreweave. The AI cloud infrastructure provider went public in March in one of the biggest and most anticipated IPOs of the year, though it did not live up to its initial hype. Another…
Market research is a $90 billion industry that helps brands understand how to best present themselves to potential customers. However, that critical insight has traditionally been expensive and slow to obtain. Cashew Research aims to change that dynamic using artificial…
Fal, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has announced that it raised a $140 million Series D funding round. The investment was led by Sequoia, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Nvidia, and other existing…
Kabir Narang, a founding general partner at B Capital and an early backer of several Indian startups, has left the global venture firm. TechCrunch learned and confirmed the departure with the company. Narang is laying the groundwork for a new…
SpaceX is planning to go public in mid-to-late 2026 and is looking to raise 30 billion dollars at a valuation of around 1.5 trillion dollars, according to a new report from Bloomberg News citing multiple unidentified sources. That would make…
Amazon’s Ring doorbells can now identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature called Familiar Faces. The company announced the controversial feature earlier this September, and it is now rolling out to Ring device owners in the United States.…
Boom Supersonic announced on Tuesday that it will begin selling a version of its turbine engine as a stationary power plant. Its first customer will be the data center startup Crusoe, which has agreed to purchase 29 of Boom’s 42-megawatt…
OpenAI has hired Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its new chief revenue officer. The news was first reported by Wired and later confirmed by OpenAI in a company blog post. Dresser’s new role follows more than 14 years at Salesforce,…
