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TechCrunch will block Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, 2025. If you are aiming for a big fundraising goal, you will be leaning on this session on October 29th at Builders Stage. The three powerhouse voices in ventures and AI-driven innovations share what they really need to close out the major round long before they're in the room with investors. Why this session is important Raising late capital is beyond achieving revenue targets. It involves telling the right stories, tracking the right metrics, and building complex relationships over time. Expect keen insights, honest reflections and practical frameworks that…
Large AI labs like Openai and Google Deepmind cut connections with Scale AI after Meta invested $14 billion in data vendors and hired CEOs. However, AI Labs still need data. It leaves an opening for other startups that can provide. The major players and factors in the AI data market are changing. Mercor, an AI employment platform that sells data services to AI Labs recently, may be one of the biggest benefactors of this shift. Today, in Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony HA, and I (Max Zeff) are digging deeper into the changes in the AI data market. Co-founded less than…
The countdown is as follows: The application hosting side events at TechCrunchSrupt2025 will close tonight at 11:59pm. If you're looking at ways to amplify your brand at this week's tech epicenter, now is the time to lock it up. Your side event is a dinner where everyone is still talking, a panel that triggers a deal, or a happy hour where you start a new collaboration. Over 10,000 attendees in San Francisco will not be taking place in addition to the global spotlight of TechCrunch promotions. It resonates. Image credit: Slava Blazer Photography Today's deadline is the final The application…
When Seth Winterroth quit his job at GE Ventures and helped launch Eclipse Ventures in 2015, Robotics fell into his mind. More specifically, the number of early-stage robotics startups that struggled to launch due to lack of interest. “These are teams that just finished postdocs at Waterloo, or CMU, or MIT, and started robotics companies. What we've heard continuously from startups is, “Hey, we're really struggling to develop venture capital in our facility,” Winter told TechCrunch. “At that time, most venture capitalists in Silicon Valley went into the application layer of a very mature application layer or some very mature…
Buried in a sea of flashy novelties unveiled by Apple this week, Tech Giant has also revealed new security technologies for the latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Devices. According to Apple, the new security technology was specially created to combat the types of vulnerabilities that dependent on surveillance vendors most. This feature is called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and is designed to help stop memory corruption bugs. This is some of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by manufacturers of telephone law devices used by SPYware developers and law enforcement agencies. “The known merctic spyware chains used against iOS share…
TechCrunch's 2025 brings three people who helped shape the modern internet to builders. On October 28th, Adam Bain, Dick Costolo, and David Fischer (now 01 Advisors) will seek exclusive fireside chats about what they need to build, expand and fund startups amid today's ever-changing landscape. Before supporting breakout companies like Tipalti and Spoton, he was the operator behind some of the most iconic high-tech companies. David Fischer – Former CRO of Meta, Fischer has expanded annual revenues from under $1 billion to over $100 billion, connecting 200 million companies with customers around the world. Previously, he built Google's initial sales…
According to the French government, Apple has notified many individuals that their devices are being targeted in spyware campaigns. France's National Cybersecurity Response Force said Thursday it was aware that on September 3, Apple sent new notifications to affected customers whose Apple devices may have been hacked. The Cybersecurity unit said receiving threat notifications means that at least one of the devices linked to a customer's iCloud account is “targeted and potentially damaged.” It is unknown how many individuals, including France, received the September 3rd threat notification when spyware was used, and when the intrusion began. An Apple spokesman did…
Children are marking the UK's cybersecurity field, but not in the way their parents want it. According to the National Intelligence Committee (ICO), students were behind more than half of the school's personal data breaches. In warnings to teachers and educational institutions, the ICO outlined an analysis of 215 data breaches reports resulting from security incidents within the school, finding that 57% of hacks were plucked by students. It was discovered that students had guessed commonly used passwords or simply wrote down login details for each ICO, making almost a third of violations possible. However, the ICO said a small…
Perplexity is an AI-powered search startup that competes with Google by providing conversational answers to user queries, securing a new capital of $20 billion at a $20 billion valuation. According to a July report from Bloomberg, the new funding comes just two months after the company raised $100 million at a $18 billion valuation. According to data from Pitchbook, the rapidly growing AI company since its founding three years ago has raised $1.5 billion in total funding. It is unclear who led Perplexity's latest capital injection. Bloomberg reported that the funding in July is an extension of the previous $500…
It has been a long way from 20-year-old Fintech Kralna reaching the IPO. However, on Wednesday, the company successfully completed the New York Stock Exchange, raising $1.4 billion, primarily from existing investors themselves. The Fintech giant sold its shares at $40, above the $35-$37 range, and came out of the gate at a valuation of $15 billion. The shares opened for $52, but soon settled at around $46 in the daytime. Of the 34.3 million shares sold by Klarna, only 5 million shares were sold by the company, he said. The rest was sold by existing investors, such as the…