Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.

The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.

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The notetaker offers a generous free plan, and that has resulted in over 400,000 monthly active users. The company said that over 1 million people have recorded meetings until now.

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Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.

Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.

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Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this October.

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers. 

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36 billion, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued at $17.5 billion in late 2021.

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.

The buzzy startup raised another $600 million in a Series C extension round, bringing the total of the round to $900 million.

The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.