Uber-Backed Lime Files for IPO, Revealing $887 Million Revenue and a Path to Profitability After five years of public-market flirtation, Lime has officially filed for an initial public offering. The Uber-backed micromobility company, incorporated as Neutron Holdings Inc., submitted its S-1 ... IPO Mobility Tech Startups Transportation Uber May 8, 2026
Gusto Crosses $1 Billion in Revenue, Setting Stage for Potential IPO Gusto, the small-business payroll and HR platform founded 14 years ago, has crossed a major financial threshold. The company announced it surpassed $1 billion in actual revenue over the trailing 12 mo... Gusto HR Tech IPO SaaS Startups May 7, 2026
Moonshot AI Hits $20 Billion Valuation With $2 Billion Raise as Open-Source AI Demand Surges Chinese artificial intelligence lab Moonshot AI has closed a roughly $2 billion funding round that values the company at $20 billion, according to advisory firm Huafeng Capital. The round was led by L... AI China Funding Open Source Startups May 7, 2026
Deepinfra Raises $107M as Open-Source AI Inference Clouds Heat Up Deepinfra Raises $107M as Open-Source AI Inference Clouds Heat Up Published by SysBrix News on May 5, 2026, 5:45 AM CDT. Source: SiliconANGLE , reported May 4, 2026, 9:04 PM CDT. The dedicated inferen... AI Infrastructure Cloud Funding Open Source AI Startups May 5, 2026
AI Copyright Fight Over “This Is Fine” Shows New Risk for Startup Marketing A familiar internet image is now part of a very current AI dispute. TechCrunch reported that the creator of the “This is fine” comic says an AI startup used work too close to his original art in an ad... AI Copyright Digital Policy Marketing Tech Startups May 4, 2026
Korea’s Upstage Investment Highlights the Race for Sovereign AI Champions South Korea is putting more weight behind domestic artificial intelligence. Korea JoongAng Daily reported that the country’s Financial Services Commission approved a 560 billion won investment in Upst... AI Asia Tech Funding Sovereign AI Startups May 4, 2026
European Startup Watchlist Shows AI Momentum Is Spreading Beyond the Obvious Names Published May 2, 2026, 8:52 PM CDT. TechCrunch’s new roundup of 21 European startups to watch argues that the region’s momentum is broader than the headline names most people already know, such as Lov... AI Startups European Tech Startups Venture Capital May 2, 2026
Meta’s Robotics Startup Deal Points to Bigger Humanoid AI Push TechCrunch published a new report, Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions , and the headline is worth watching because it lands in a period when technology strategy is moving ... AI Enterprise Tech Robotics Startups Tech News May 2, 2026
Replit’s CEO Signals Developer AI Platforms Are Not Done Consolidating Replit CEO Amjad Masad used a TechCrunch StrictlyVC interview to frame one of the biggest questions in developer tooling: are AI coding platforms independent companies, acquisition targets or future o... AI Coding Developer Tools Replit Startups May 2, 2026
Meta Robotics Deal Signals a Bigger Race to Train Humanoid AI Meta is moving deeper into robotics, and the strategic signal is bigger than one startup acquisition. TechCrunch reported on May 1 that Meta bought Assured Robot Intelligence, a humanoid robotics star... AI Enterprise Tech Meta Robotics Startups May 1, 2026
Legora’s $5.6B Valuation Shows Legal AI Is Becoming a Platform Race Legal AI is moving from promising experiment to a heavily funded platform battle. TechCrunch reports that Legora has reached a $5.6 billion post-money valuation after a $50 million Series D extension ... AI Enterprise Software Legal Tech Startups May 1, 2026
The ‘12-Month Window’ for AI Startups Is Closing as Foundation Models Expand Across the Stack One of the most useful ideas in today’s AI startup debate is blunt and time-based: the “12-month window.” In TechCrunch’s latest discussion , the argument is that many startups can exist only temporar... AI Economics Foundation Models Product Strategy Startups Venture Capital Apr 19, 2026