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Peak XV is increasing Surge’s seed checks to $5 million as its new cohort targets global markets, signaling tougher Series A conditions.

TechCrunch Founder Summit will bring founders to Boston on Nov. 4 for sessions on fundraising, AI-native building, hiring, leadership, and startup growth.

TechCrunch names five investors to judge Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026, bringing enterprise, AI and industrial expertise to the startup contest.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will bring founders and investors together to examine fundraising, hiring, AI agents, and the hard realities of startup scale.

Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath says AI alone no longer distinguishes startup pitches, raising the bar for founders seeking funding and enterprise buyers.

Arena, the popular free AI model leaderboard startup, launched its commercial service last September and has now grown into a $100M business.

OpenAI has not yet held pre-IPO investor meetings or established a timeline for its public offering, according to sources familiar with the matter.

a16z led a $33 million seed round in Ornn, a compute marketplace startup building a venue to trade the power and processing capacity that drives AI workloads.

Voice AI infrastructure provider LiveKit has secured $100 million in new funding, reaching a $1 billion valuation. The company powers OpenAI's ChatGPT voice features and is expanding its real-time voice and video solutions.

Humans&, a new AI startup founded by former researchers from Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has raised $480 million in a seed round, achieving a $4.8 billion valuation with backing from Nvidia and Jeff Bezos.