TechCrunch Startup News
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Mar 20, 2025 • 4min
Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 20, 2025 • 7min
Rippling sues Deel, Deel denies ‘all legal wrongdoing’, and Slack is the main witness
It’s gloves off in one of the more tense rivalries in the world of startups. HR company Rippling Monday morning announced a lawsuit against Deel, another big player in the same space. The dramatic 50-page complaint alleges racketeering, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition, and aiding & abetting breach of fiduciary duty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 19, 2025 • 3min
Flexport accuses former employees of stealing its source code to create a rival startup
Flexport accuses Freightmate of being the product of "theft, not ingenuity" in its lawsuit against the startup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 19, 2025 • 5min
Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers
Cal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 18, 2025 • 6min
Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works
We’ve all experienced that moment of frustration when the GPS glitches and you miss an exit on the highway. The team at Tern AI, which is building a low-cost GPS alternative, says that’s because the current technology is limited by its reliance on satellite positioning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 18, 2025 • 4min
Bria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed data
AI-powered image generators, which are at the center of a number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies, are frequently trained on massive amounts of data from public websites. Most of these companies argue that fair use doctrine shields their data scraping and training practices. But many copyright holders disagree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 17, 2025 • 4min
Kerry Washington invests in wedding marketplace Cheersy
Kerry Washington is expanding her angel investment portfolio, serving as lead investor in the pre-seed round of the wedding marketplace Cheersy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 17, 2025 • 4min
Omni raises $69M to design tools that help companies better analyze their data
Employees at many companies today are expected to make decisions through careful data analysis, but the tools they need to do it are clunky, slow or — in some cases — don’t exist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 15, 2025 • 4min
Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 14, 2025 • 5min
How La Fourche, an online organic supermarket, is thriving after q-commerce’s busted flush
La Fourche is just seven years old but it has been quite a rollercoaster for the French startup. During this time, the online grocery retailer has gone through a global pandemic, followed by the rise of venture-backed quick-commerce startups that promised grocery deliveries in less than 15 minutes, followed by the implosion of that vertical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
