Cascade raises $3.5M to help construction firms find and win projects TechCrunch By: Dominic-Madori Davis 22 July 2026 at 09:28 a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade's $3.5 million seed round.
Dimension Capitalβs $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 21 July 2026 at 21:27 The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.
Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants β then, everything else TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 21 July 2026 at 06:00 Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20Bβ$30B valuation TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 20 July 2026 at 19:39 The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents β and take on Stripe TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 20 July 2026 at 15:11 The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B TechCrunch By: Lauren Forristal 15 July 2026 at 11:30 If completed, the acquisition would unite two of the biggest names in digital payments.
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 15 July 2026 at 06:30 Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 10 July 2026 at 11:00 The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.
Donβt want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him TechCrunch By: Kirsten Korosec 9 July 2026 at 20:13 The new exchange-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.
Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI TechCrunch By: Sarah Perez 9 July 2026 at 14:40 While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required election ads to disclose.