Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup
During a Y Combinator event on Tuesday night, Sam Altman had what YC partner Tyler Bosmeny called a “mic drop…
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in one week: Window to nominate and apply for the most promising startups ends May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 in equity-free funding is gone in a week. Startup…
Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment
Like many young people of her generation, Fai Nur was what she called a “chronically online teenager.” She obsessed over…
Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched…
Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.
Most members of Stanford’s class of 2026 are smart, ambitious, and poised for remarkable careers. Theo Baker already has one.…
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis
When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in…
Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures…
$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month
Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It…
General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z
One of the most entertaining moments in VC this week was a piece of rage-bait marketing from General Catalyst. In…
Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders
Meridian Ventures was born out of a shared experience: deferred MBAs. Now, founders Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney have raised…