How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems
Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. It has long been home to…
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?
SpaceX went public this week in the largest IPO ever, making CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.…
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis
Box founder Aaron Levie got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs…
Google Cloud’s VP for startups on reading your ‘check engine light’ before it’s too late
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure…
Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’
There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is…
OpenAI and Anthropic are making their play for healthcare, and we’re not surprised
AI companies are clustering around healthcare, and fast. In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch,…
VC predicts the consumer AI products OpenAI ‘won’t want to kill’
Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of…
How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor’s CEO
Three-year-old startup Mercor has become a $10 billion middleman in AI’s data gold rush. The company connects AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic…
Equity’s 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, Blockbuster IPOs, and the Future of VC
TechCrunch’s Equity crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode!…
Breaking down the boom in the Nordic’s startup ecosystem
The always-a-good-time Slush conference took place last week in Helsinki and, as always, it was a showcase of…
Startups should rethink how they pursue sales and traction, according to VC Tim Chen
After a small startup exit and being turned down by every VC firm he applied to, Tim Chen…
From SB 243 to ChatGPT: Why it’s ‘not cool’ to be cautious about AI
Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like…