The Brutalist Report - techcrunch
- European Solo GP Robin Capital closes first fund with €15M to play with [1d]
- Sequoia’s Matt Miller is exiting the firm after making headlines earlier this year [1d]
- India’s Rapido exposed user and driver data through leaky website feedback form [1d]
- Sam Altman once owned some equity in OpenAI through Sequoia [2d]
- Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round [2d]
- Boon raises $20.5M to build agentic AI tools for fleets [2d]
- A bad experience with an accounting firm spurred this founder to start Aiwyn [2d]
- Meet the robot with two Guinness World Records for basketball [2d]
- TuSimple pivot from self-driving to AI animation is complete with CreateAI rebrand [2d]
- Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup backed by a16z [2d]
- Real estate VC Fifth Wall is raising $500M for a new fund [2d]
- In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation led by Thrive, sources say [2d]
- Backed by a16z and NEA, Backflip raises $30M Series A to turn text into AI-generated designs [2d]
- Tapestry, a new app for tracking social media, news, blogs, and more, will launch in ‘early 2025’ [2d]
- Waymo fills the Cruise void overseas and a salute to icon Jean Jennings [2d]
- Instagram teases AI tools for editing appearances, backgrounds in videos using prompts [2d]
- Over 20 venture firms pledge to not take money from China, Russia [2d]
- Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model [2d]
- $25 billion valuation Chime takes another step toward an IPO [2d]
- Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy [2d]
- Hyme Energy signs global deal with Arla to scale thermal storage tech [2d]
- BlueQubit raises $10M to take Quantum software into real-world applications [2d]
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