This is not a cybersecurity incident. It is an interview-based report from TechCrunch Disrupt with the five partners of venture firm Benchmark. The partners discuss the firm's $2 billion raise across two funds this summer, including a $1.25 billion growth fund. They say they will keep a pace of two or three new investments per partner per…
Even Healthcare, an Indian healthcare startup, raised $50 million in an all-equity Series B led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Alpha Wave, at a $300 million valuation, triple its valuation 18 months earlier. Total capital raised now exceeds $120 million. The company is moving from partner hospitals to building and operating i…
Anthropic announced on Sunday that it is creating a "public benefit fund" to give the company "increased flexibility and scale" to support projects for societal good. The fund is a wholly owned entity within the company and will receive 5% of Anthropic's shares, with the option to add a further 2% for every 50% increase in the company's v…
TechCrunch reports that the documentary "You Can See Everything" about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos earned an estimated $15 million in its opening weekend, the second biggest documentary opening ever. It played in 855 theaters, had about 2,000 reported sellouts, and holds a 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. It was co-directed …
On 2026-10-19, Amazon Web Services released TorchNeuron, a tool that lets AI startups move PyTorch applications onto its custom Trainium chip by changing one line of configuration, with no code rewrite. The release is a competitive move against Nvidia, whose CUDA software has made its hardware the default for PyTorch workloads. AWS says i…
Tolan, an AI companion app that helps users manage daily tasks, relationships and emotions, raised $30 million from Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew, according to Upstarts Media. The round doubles its total funding. The company did not disclose its valuation; PitchBook estimates it at more than $268 million with medium …
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, disclosed on Saturday that attackers broke into an older system overnight and affected 1.4% of users of its online platform, OpenCode Console. Some of those users store API keys for AI services there. The company called it a "large-scale distillation attack", but skeptics say it was a straightforw…
AI inference chip startup Tenstorrent has raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation, more than double the $2.6 billion it fetched in late 2024. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, with participation from Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk and T. Rowe Price. The raise follows reported acquisition interest f…
Eugenia Kuyda, former CEO of Replika and founder of Wabi, has officially launched Wabi 2.0 for all users. It is a multi-threaded, multiplayer personal AI assistant that works like a messenger app. The agent builds mini-apps automatically once connected to a user's email, and threads can be shared as group chats. Wabi competes with assista…
Town, a two-year-old San Francisco startup founded by former Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Greze, announced a $108 million Series B co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, giving it a unicorn valuation. The company launched publicly four months ago and says it reached millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue within weeks. It has r…
Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe told TechCrunch Disrupt that autonomous driving will let the company build vehicles very different from its current SUVs and trucks. Rivian is prioritizing autonomy software development even at the cost of delaying profitability. The article is industry and business news and describes no cyber threat, vu…