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Oct 15, 2026At-home health testing has been mired in overblown claims and outright fraud. But German startup TimeTeller, which has developed a saliva test kit to help anyone understand their circadian rhythm, is led by CEO Angela Relógio, who is the polar opposi...
Oct 15, 2026The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what happens next in the tech ecosystem. Across three days, from October 13 to 15, at Moscone West in San Francisco, the Disrupt Stage will bring toge...
Oct 15, 2026Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is officially underway, bringing together 10,000+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders under one roof at San Francisco's Moscone West. Big ideas are colliding, connections are forming at every turn, and the s...
Oct 15, 2026A first venture usually follows a well-worn playbook: a gap in the market, obsessive refinement of concept and pitch, eventual conviction that the solution is as bulletproof as it is revolutionary. Then, the dreaded phase of product-market fit. Inst...
Oct 15, 2026Jessica Herrin was pregnant with her first child and working at Dell when she began testing jewelry trunk shows in Austin on nights and weekends. The venture became Stella & Dot, a business that sold more than $2 billion in products through a network...
Oct 15, 2026### By Nnamdi Okike You have likely never heard of Tosin Eniolorunda. You should have. Over the past decade, Tosin and his team built Moniepoint into the operating system for more than 6 million Nigerian businesses, processing over $300 billion a y...
Oct 15, 2026A total of 38 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in September, adding $71 billion in value to the board. Semiconductors, financial services and space technology led for new counts with the remainder hailing from a broad swath of industries...
Oct 15, 2026Brendan Wallace has spent much of the past decade investing in technology that impacts how real estate is bought, built and managed. Now, the Fifth Wall co-founder sees AI changing the kinds of companies worth backing and expanding the definition of ...
Oct 15, 2026- For its sixth fund, Nauta has raised €60 million, €30 million of which comes from the British Business Bank. - This represents half of the €120 million initial closing of Nauta's fifth fund, with the fund eventually reaching €190 million. - Nauta...
Oct 15, 2026- Duvo raised $32 million in a Series A financing round led by Balderton, just 10 months after its $15 million seed round. - Tomáš Čupr, the founder, thinks that AI should be used to make employees more productive rather than merely reducing jobs. ...
Oct 15, 2026Scimplify, a startup that helps companies source the chemicals they use to make their products, has raised $25 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today that the Series C round was led by Hitachi Ventures. It was joined by two Scimplify customer...
Oct 15, 2026Zocdoc, the New York-based healthcare booking marketplace, has acquired Sohar Health, a New York startup that automates insurance eligibility checks, in the first acquisition in Zocdoc's history. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed."As we bui...