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TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we’re partnering with Stripe to find the country’s most exciting early-stage startups. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take the stage at StripeTour Sydney to pitch live in front of investors, press, and the tech community. Three will win prizes. One will earn an automatic…

Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch.  

Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers’ supply chains

Syrian super app Labby has secured a $10 million investment from a consortium of investors from the UAE and Saudi Arabia, in what Syrian officials have described as the country’s first direct foreign investment in a technology startup. The transaction marks a significant milestone for Syria’s nascent startup ecosystem as international investors begin backing locally…

High-Voltage, and High-Resolution CT Scanner for Non-Destructive Research and Industrial Inspection

AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices, and messaging the vendor to organizing a delivery. But when it comes to making a payment for the shipment, they still need to involve a human.

AI infrastructure company Infinityannounced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation on Monday from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup is building software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. One big reason Nvidia became the top player…

Matthew Friedel, entrepreneur and teaching faculty at UWM, is also co-founder of its Disruptive Technologies Lab, a research hub for technologies like AI and blockchain. His work is helping fuel Milwaukee’s growing community of tech startups. (UWM Photo/Andy Manis)

A farmer in rural India takes a photo of a dying plant. She wants to research it on the internet but she doesn’t speak English. She shouldn’t have to.

General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm. It might be the first deal to put up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips built to run already trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models…