Equity's 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, Blockbuster IPOs, and the Future of VC
TechCrunch's Equity crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode! Hosts Kirsten Korosec,...
Why the operating room is ripe for AI, according to Akara
There's plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that's actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordin...
Hardware's brutal week: iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power go bankrupt
The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy. Each company faces its own mix of tariff ...
Eclipse's Jiten Behl thinks the next unicorns won't be built in software
Jiten Behl, partner at Eclipse Ventures and former chief growth officer at Rivian, thinks we're entering an era of major re-industrialization in the U...
Netflix growing up, data center jet engines, and the circular AI economy
A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn't even the first one. What started as a novelty story quickly became a reminder of how autonomous ...
ElevenLabs just hit $6.6B, but its CEO says the real money isn't in voice anymore
ElevenLabs has made a name for itself building realistic AI voices. What started as two Polish engineers annoyed by terrible movie dubbing has gr...
Nothing wants your money, AWS wants your trust, and Spotify wants your data
AWS announced a wave of new AI agent tools at re:Invent 2025, but can Amazon actually catch up to the AI leaders? While the cloud giant is betting big...
This VC charges $0 for PR, and has 12 unicorns to show for it
Tech is racing ahead while society struggles to keep up. Masha Bucher, founder and GP of Day One Ventures, built her firm around closing that gap by c...
Supabase CEO on the "painful" decisions that built a $5B company
Vibe coding has taken the tech industry by storm, and it's not just the Lovables and Replits of the world that are winning. The startups building the ...
The Nordic startup scene has quietly become one of tech’s fastest-growing hubs
Ten years ago, raising €1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region’s tech scene. Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar...