Julie Bort

On the first day of Y Combinator the founders of PearAI got “cancelled." They used the hate to launch a new product, rai...

Digital bank Chime has reportedly filed its confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC, with an eye toward a 2025 debut. © ...

Just five months after launching a $100 million fund, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic have backed their first 18 startups. ...

The fund will offer grants to those building on BlueSky’s open source AT Protocol. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserv...

It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks' record-breaking $10 billion fund raising, one of ...

Databricks is close to finalizing a $9.5 billion round at a $60 billion valuation, including a secondary sale for employ...

These startups have fascinating new technologies, business models, founder stories or are pushing an industry forward in...

ServiceTitan, which offers financial and customer management software for the trades, went public in a big way on Thursd...

Threat exposure management startup Flare thinks it has an answer to info-stealers with a service that watches the dark w...

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucke...

Nowadays is a seed-stage company doing something really useful with AI. It automates large event planning from emails to...

Marc Benioff says that Salesforce has become the "largest supplier of digital labor, and this is just the beginning.” © ...

Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and...

ServiceTitan made a few interesting disclosures about what it will do with the money from its IPO and who it will sell t...

An Apple employee sued the tech company as part of an effort to limit the visibility employers have on personal devices ...

With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon ...

Rather than opening an IPO window, ServiceTitan's IPO could be the first of something else entirely, VCs warn. © 2024 Te...

While most seed investors believe founders should spend their raised cash however they want to, those VCs will still be ...

An analysis of all nearly 5,000 companies YC has backed to date reveals a surprising truth: YC startups don’t have to be...

The attorney general for the District of Columbia is suing instant payday loan fintech Earnin for “deceptively marketing...

Bling Capital, one of the more prolific and well-connected seed VC firms, has nabbed another $270 million for a new flag...

With ServiceTitan's public IPO documents, we may be witnessing the birth of a new boilerplate warning: LLMs. © 2024 Tech...

Marc Benioff famously got into tech as a child coder writing games. He’s always loved tech gadgets. During an episode of...

Attempts to regulate AI to date have focused on some mythical future instead of understanding what new risks AI actually...

What’s the secret to success? It isn’t any of the trends that so many founders in Silicon Valley subscribe to, a16z's Ma...

After a career as a corruption investigator, Aaron Narva had an idea for a startup in the age of LLM AI: help hospitals...

By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Curso...

To raise VC money next year, it won't just be about sales and growth, but about the "quality" of that growth, VCs say. ©...

One of the lessons that the wild Silicon Valley venture funding environment of the past few years has clearly taught is ...

Level Zero Health’s co-founders Ula Rustamova and Irene Jia are swinging for the fences. They are attempting to in...