Gen Alpha founders are already pitching VCs. Here's what investors want them to know.
Five venture capitalists told Business Insider their tips for Gen Alpha founders. They discussed AI, social media, and college.
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The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
TechCrunch AI2 min readTechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang on landing your first 1,000 customers
Leaders from Gamma, Engine, and Google Ventures join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk how to get your first customers. Register now to save up to $100. Grab a second pass at 50% off.
TechCrunch5 min readThe Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Energy Top A Busy Lineup Of Large Rounds
As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large funding rounds, which featured AI infrastructure providers, a foundational model developer, a content protection platform for the AI age, and other AI-focused…
Crunchbase News - AI4 min readSatellite radar tech startup Kapta Space raises $24M from Bill Gates-backed fund and defense investors
Seattle space startup Kapta Space landed $24M in Series A funding to scale production of its low-cost metamaterial radar payloads for defense satellites.
GeekWire3 min readLumenUs helps automate tedious paperwork in times of grief
"The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about," said founder Sara Tashakorinia.
TechCrunch4 min readAmazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year.
TechCrunch AI4 min readBeyond TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The Side Events, Parties & Networking You Can’t Miss
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is just the beginning. From exclusive networking events and startup showcases to happy hours, dinners, and after-hours meetups, discover what’s happening across San Francisco during Disrupt Week, October 10–16.
TechCrunch12 min readHistory of Shopify: From a Snowboard Shop to Agentic Commerce, and How Tobi Lütke Runs It (2026)
A snowboard store that could not find decent software became a $11.6B-revenue commerce platform. The full Shopify history, Tobi Lütke's playbook, and River.
Taskade Blog45 min readTechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise
Four days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders gather in San Francisco's Moscone West on October 13-15. Save up to $100 on your price. Plus, save 50% on a second pass of the same type.
TechCrunch AI3 min read8 AI Use Cases: Budgeting, Money, and All Things Revenue
Make every dollar count with these AI use cases for all things revenue.
Salesforce Einstein + Agentforce Blog7 min readUK to ease non-compete clauses, marking boon for startups and scaleups
The UK prime minister today confirmed that the UK plans to ease restrictive non-compete clauses in workers' employment contracts, which could include banning them, marking a boon for the UK startup se...
Tech.eu2 min readActive Investors Kept Up The Deal Pace In Q3, Even As Funding Fell
Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders.
Crunchbase News - AI4 min readWhy Customer Workflows Are Becoming The Moat In The AI Era
AI companies can build durable moats by embedding their products in essential customer workflows, explains tech adviser Itay Sagie, who shares why founders should prioritize measurable customer dependence, while investors and acquirers should assess how integrations, trusted relationships and…
Crunchbase News - AI4 min readOne of Anthropic's earliest backers shares where he's investing now, and offers advice to founders
Matt Murphy, partner at Menlo Ventures, sits down with Business Insider's Ben Bergman.
Business Insider - AI1 min readYour digital photos and posts are scattered everywhere: This startup ties them all together
Seattle startup Eluum wants to rebuild social media around something more lasting than the next post or feed: your life story. Its app uses AI to pull scattered photos, videos and posts into one evolving record, a feature it calls MyLifeStory. Read More
GeekWire4 min readHow Lime's CEO turned the electric scooter company into a sustainable business and took it public
Lime CEO Wayne Ting tells BI's Katie Roof that transforming Lime was "not sexy" and "a game of inches."
Business Insider - AI1 min readSponsor Spotlight: Life after the IPO
Jill Hallquist from Fidelity's digital transfer agent business, and Lenka Haase of Fidelity stock plan services offer advice to companies going public.
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