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For decades, Fortune 500 companies have had to hire market research companies to gain meaningful insights into customer satisfaction. These services come with a large price tag and often take weeks to complete. Market research startup Keplar uses Voice AI to conduct customer interviews to provide clients with faster analysis and at the cost of a part of traditional research consulting firms. On Wednesday, the 2-year-old announced a $3.4 million seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, citing participation from SV Angel, Common Metal and South Park Commons. Keplar's idea was conceived in 2023 when Google engineer Dhruv Guliani (right above)…
The European startup scene has seen an increase in European unicorns, with American VCs setting up shops across the pond. But what does this mean for European founders, as European funding dominates the early stages, while late stage capital flows primarily from the US? Also, will the continent carve its own identity in an increasingly AI-driven world? Today, to be fair, we were Shamira Bankuya, the newly appointed partner of Dawn Capital, discussing it all. She and Dominique Madri Davis discuss the impact of AI on European startups, regulatory landscapes, and the journey from Uganda to venture capital. Listen and…
In a StrictlyVC download this week, TechCrunch Eic Connie Loizos will sit with former Vice President Al Gore and Lila Preston, a sustainability-focused investment company, Generation Investment Management, to explore the 9th Annual Sustainability Trends Report and how the global climate transition is accelerating despite political reversals. While traditional media focuses on the Trump administration's rollback, the three discussed why renewable energy economics has fundamentally changed, with 65% of energy investment currently flowing to renewables, but only 35% on fossil fuels, a complete reversal from a decade ago. They delve into how China became the world's first “electrostate,” with EVs…
Luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday that it will not resume vehicle manufacturing operations until at least September 24th due to a cyber attack earlier this month. In a new statement, the company said it had notified its colleagues, suppliers and partners that production halts will expand in the third week. The company said this was due to a “controlled reopening of its time-consuming global business.” Laura Savvas, a spokesman for Jaguar Land Rover, owned by Indian giant Tata Motors, refused to provide more updates when TechCrunch reached it. The BBC reports that IT and manufacturing shutdowns are…
From stealth mode to center stage, Mach Industries brings AI into one of the world's most complex and controversial sectors: defense. In TechCrunch's 2025 disruption, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, will take the AI stage and share what it takes to build in a high-stakes environment where speed and autonomy are the most important, and why next-generation infrastructure starts with rethinking the basics. AI Arms Race Inside – and founders aiming to rewrite it Thornton launched Mach Industries from MIT in 2023, with a bold mission: to build next-generation local government defense technology to protect freedom on…
More than a decade ago, Jason Citron pitched an early-stage company in the startup battlefield competition at TechCrunch, and an early-stage company as a crude founder pitching his vision. Today, he is building a discrepancy in one of the most successful consumer platforms of the era. It is valued by billions and redefines how the community connects, shares and shares games online. This October, he returns to the chaotic stage with “From Startup Battlefield to Discord.” This will unpack Tech Crunch's 2025-29 scaling journey in Moscon West, San Francisco from 2025-29. If you are a founder aiming to expand your…
Venture Capital Firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the company's Limited Partners, that their personal information has been stolen by hackers in a previous data breaches. In a statement on September 4th, the VC giant said it completed its review in early August following the data breaches. The venture company said in a formal data breach notification filed with the California Attorney General this week that hackers broke into the company's human resources system in mid-October 2024. The hackers have extended their data from Insight's servers and said they began encryption of the system, a feature of…
Lovable soon became one of the most talked about startups this year, and is one of the fastest growing software companies in history, making records and headlines. To celebrate TechCrunch's 20th anniversary, co-founder and CEO Anton Osika takes a stage in confusion to discuss the adorable and future of consumer technology. Join TechCrunch from 2025 to 2025 on October 27-29 in Moscone West, San Francisco, with more than 10,000 founders, investors and technology leaders shape the following: Build breakout brands at record times Lovable allows anyone to create apps and websites just by talking to AI. Its mission: 99% of…
The Altman brothers certainly have the tricks to being a venture capitalist. On Tuesday, this was applied specifically to Jack Altman, a brother to Openai CEO Sam Altman, co-founder of the $3 billion HR Software Startup Lattice. Jack Altman has announced a $225 million fund for his solo run farm Alt Capital. And it took him a week from start to finish, he told the Wall Street Journal. Growing up in early 2024, his first fund was $150 million, so this is a big step. He used it to invest in about 20 early stage companies, he said. Jack is…
Harjot Gill was running Fluxninja. This is the Observability startup that co-founded several years after selling his first startup Netsil to Nutanix in 2018, and I noticed some strange trends. “We had a team of remote engineers who are starting to adopt AI code generation at GitHub Copilot,” Gill told TechCrunch. “We saw recruitment happening, but it was very clear that the second order effect would cause a bottleneck in the code review.” In early 2023, Gill launched Coderabbit, an AI-powered code review platform, and acquired Flexninja. Gill's predictions have been realized. Developers are currently using AI coding assistants to…