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- Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently raised $163 million from the likes of Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, and Valor Equity […]
TechCrunch Startups · Sep 16, 2026
- Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuationThe round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
- Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuationThe high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
- Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources sayThe acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animalsOn our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
- We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEOThe internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real. A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of […]
- The August 2026 New York Venture Capital Funding ReportNYC's summer slowdown arrived on schedule in August — 34 rounds, $837.9M, the lightest deal month of 2026. But the bigger number is $19.09B: what NYC startups have raised through the first eight months of the year, already past the full-year 2025 total of $19.01B with four months still to go. Average deal size climbed 26% year over year to $24.6M. The calendar compressed. The city did not.
AlleyWatch · Sep 2, 2026
- Thrive’s Kushner defends involvement in FIFA mess, hires Elon’s go-to lawyerNew York's prestigious-yet-secretive venture firm Thrive Capital finally speaks out about its involvement in the messy drama upending international soccer.
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