Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear TechCrunch By: Dominic-Madori Davis 23 October 2026 at 00:15 Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 22 October 2026 at 23:08 Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
The secret to fast startup growth isnβt early sales, top names in tech say TechCrunch By: Dominic-Madori Davis 22 October 2026 at 21:00 At this yearβs Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polsia's Ben Broca, and Theory Venturesβ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days.
Former OpenAI science lead launches Warp Science to automate wet labs with robots TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 22 October 2026 at 19:38 Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, the startupβs human chemists will train robots to perform various lab tasks.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements TechCrunch By: Michael Schick Β· Isabelle Johannessen 22 October 2026 at 17:00 Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were many industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching on the Showcase Stage. Here are the standouts.