Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 28 October 2026 at 19:15 The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.
VCs will make billions on Anthropicβs IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 27 October 2026 at 21:15 Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 23 October 2026 at 15:25 A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
What some of Anthropicβs backers are worth before its IPO TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 23 October 2026 at 12:02 Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.
As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 22 October 2026 at 18:34 The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.
Former OpenAI science lead launches Warp Science to automate wet labs with robots TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 22 October 2026 at 14:38 Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, the startupβs human chemists will train robots to perform various lab tasks.
Blackstoneβs Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 21 October 2026 at 18:51 Blackstoneβs AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 20 October 2026 at 13:55 Eric Schmidtβs fortune is about to get even bigger.
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 19 October 2026 at 14:37 After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.