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Harry Stebbings shares how a lack of confidence delayed his startup journey—now valued at $15.7BN—and notes that demand for AI inference is far larger than anyone comprehends.
Deedy analyzed about 60 features across roughly 5,000 startups and identified the 15 signals most strongly correlated with top-tier VC investment. The strongest signal is "having worked at a top fund," while an MBA background is actually a negative signal.
Paul Graham warns that investor conversations can seriously distract startups, citing an example involving a YC company that already has an easier time fundraising than average.
Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire spent a week building a bottom-up SpaceX financial model covering through the end of 2028, calling the final numbers "absolutely insane." The goal is to provide a public framework of figures for discussing SpaceX's complex business.
Promotional article highlighting the networking features of the upcoming TechCrunch Founder Summit on November 4 at Boston's SoWa Power Station, including Braindate-powered one-on-one sessions, roundtables, and breakout discussions for founders and VCs.
Andrew Chen announces an AMA with up to $1M invested in new startups, $10M in credits, and coworking at new SF offices, with a 48-hour window to apply.
OpenAI has reportedly lowered its funding target for its latest round from $30 billion to $20 billion, with only $11 billion secured so far amid a tepid response from large investors wary of heavy AI infrastructure spending.
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom echoes Theranos-style deception, urging investors to demand real due diligence before funding companies with trillion-dollar valuations but no profits.
A commentator shares thoughts on a VC-funded experiment pushing state-of-the-art AI to ship code directly to production in a game environment where failures are tolerable.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings, the holding company spun out of Thrive Capital, is acquiring ADT for about $7.6 billion in equity ($15.3 billion enterprise value) to build an AI-powered smart home security business, with OpenAI supplying models and forward-deployed engineers.
Serval (getserval) announced a $150M Series C round at a $3B valuation led by Sequoia, its third round in 12 months, bringing total funding to $277M, with notable customers including Fox Corporation, WPP, Live Nation, Lucid Motors, and Ramp.
讨论 Instinct 据报以约 300 亿美元估值融资，不到一年内估值从 100 亿美元飙升至三倍，推文质疑该估值是否因资金主要用于购买 GPU、易于追回而显得过高，并与 Snapchat、Reddit 等公司的估值作对比。
Marc Andreessen argues that AI could end James Burnham's 'managerial society' by letting visionary founders pair their genius with AI's ability to handle managerial work, forcing incumbents to innovate or die. He frames venture capital as a protest against managerialism, and Ben Horowitz expands on the idea in his piece on Databricks and the future firm.
TechCrunch 分析 Anthropic IPO 的资金赢家：风险投资机构将获得数十亿美元回报，但通过可转换票据和优先股投资约 180 亿美元的 Amazon 才是最大受益者，其票据头寸估值已达 979 亿美元。
Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive announced a $10 billion flagship fund to back at least 10 late-stage companies with checks of up to $1 billion, targeting capital-intensive fields like AI and defense. The fund is the largest ever raised in Texas history and represents the firm's first blind-pool fund.
Andrew Chen's new essay explores which founder archetypes — solo, non-technical, domain expert, young builders, and content creators — will thrive in the AI era, weighing both the advantages AI coding tools bring and the persistent challenges of building durable companies.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will take place on November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, featuring speakers from Toast, Bessemer Venture Partners, and other startups and VC firms discussing product-market fit, scaling, team building, and pitching investors.
OpenAI is reportedly working on raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and UAE investors, potentially making it the most valuable private company ever ahead of its planned IPO.
Jason Wei congratulates Stephanie Zhan on launching a new early-stage AI fund that will back bold bets from company formation, with LPs including Sequoia, Jeff Dean, Sachin Katti, and Philip Wong.
Builder.ai, a startup once valued at $1.5 billion that claimed to use AI to make building an app as easy as ordering takeout, declared bankruptcy in May 2025. Although its collapse was linked to its “AI-washing” image, the real cause was falsified financial figures—its actual sales in 2024 were far below the amount reported to investors, and it was accused of fabricating transactions with Indian company Verse to cook the books.