VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market fit
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do’s and don’ts for building hit products.
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Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.
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Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprise customers
Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: It’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.
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Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
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Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S., and by that he doesn’t just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.
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Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax
“It’s causing a lot of people to run who I don’t want to be running,” native Californian Palmer Luckey said. “But I’m planning on staying in California. I’m going to keep fighting it.”
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Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
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Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
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Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as “America’s answer to Shenzhen.”
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Guidewire buys Hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash
The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.
