November 14, 2025

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AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder says : Gamma is growing quickly, and profitably, its co-founder CEO Grant Lee says. Read More

Build Mode starts at the beginning: How Forethought AI found product-market fit: In the debut episode of the Build Mode podcast, we sat down with Deon Nicholas, co-founder of Forethought AI, to unpack what it really takes to build a lasting company with and for your customers from day one. Read More

'Chad: The Brainrot IDE' is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake: Chad: The Brainrot IDE is an actual product that pairs vibe coding with brainrot activities like gambling, Tinder and games. Read More

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Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar: Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks. Read More

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product: Marble is different from competitors like Odyssey, Decart, and Google's Genie because it creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore. Read More

Sam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks: The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year. Read More

Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off: Scribe Optimize is the startup's next major offering to help organizations identify where AI will be most useful. Read More

VCs abandon old rules for a 'funky time' of investing in AI startups: The goalposts are moving for AI startups when it comes to growth, product features, and just about everything else. Read More

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Pine Labs gets warm market welcome on $440M India IPO despite a valuation trim: Pine Labs, backed by PayPal and Mastercard, gained 14% on its market debut. Read More

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November 07, 2025

TechCrunch Top 3

Cluely's Roy Lee hints that viral hype is not enough: Lee declined to share Cluely's financial metrics just four months after boasting how quickly the startup is growing. Read More

Sam Altman says 'enough' to questions about OpenAI's revenue: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing "well more" than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments. Read More

Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text: Diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they can be even more powerful applied in software development. Read More

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How one founder plans to save cities from flooding with terraforming robots: Instead of building seawalls or dikes, Terranova has developed a new way to raise cities to protect them from sea-level rise. Read More

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the 'YouTube of apps' : Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" — a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends. Read More

Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of stealth: Evotrex joins startups like Lightship, Pebble, and Grounded in trying to disrupt the RV market, which is skewing younger. Read More

a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff: Andreessen Horowitz is pausing its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, according to multiple sources. Read More

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta: As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings. Read More

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