TechCrunch Venture Full text
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
Filed by TechCrunch — Venture
All sources
TechCrunch Venture Full text
2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is Sept 18. 2 days left to get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on the Expo Hall floor.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
How Bain Capital Ventures plans to deploy its fresh $1.6B fund
BCV's latest fund targets early-stage founders harnessing AGI and building the infrastructure to run it efficiently.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance
Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced a $34 million Series A round led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Musk’s long-time backer is giving SpaceX stock to its investors
Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 revealed
Meet the next batch of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before Sept 25 to save up to $200.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
3 days left to exhibit: Get your brand in front of VCs and high-value leads at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is Sept 18. 3 days left to get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on the Expo Hall floor.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women’s health research with vaginal microbiome data
Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by Sept. 18 to showcase your startup, capture leads and connect with 10,000+ tech leaders.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
Secure your pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to hear how founders, operators, and investors are redefining AI defensibility. Save up to $200 by Sept 25.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
5 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders. Tables are limited and applications close Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply now.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying…
TechCrunch Venture Full text
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road
"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good."
TechCrunch Venture Full text
One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Book your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit table. Get in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders in SF. The last day is Sept 25.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events
Final chance to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Apply by midnight tonight to create connections, opportunities, and visibility. No more extensions.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play
Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its stadium, with firm founder Craig Shapiro pitching it as a way to showcase for the firm's startups.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg is taking the Disrupt stage with Bruce K. Lee for a candid conversation on entrepreneurship, investing, deal flow, healthcare, wellness and how he’s leveled up his approach to business.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks
UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch
Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco. Apply before the application closes on September 4
TechCrunch Venture Full text
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
Stories marked Full text are reproduced here under the terms their publisher allows, with the writer credited and the original linked. Everything else is a headline and a short quotation that links straight to the publisher. How we quote · Our sources