· 2 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
You’ve heard of hybrid cars. Now meet a hybrid cement plant.
Why choose fossil fuels or electricity when you can have both? NOC Energy has figured out how to hybridize heavy industry.
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· 2 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation
Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.
· 2 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product
This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.
· 4 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
This energy startup’s bet on 100-year-old grid tech is paying off
Ayr Energy is using a shortage of power conversion equipment to break open a decades-old market.
· 10 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine
Pronto's autonomous haulage trucks are about to start operating at Mariana Minerals' Utah copper mine -- the first such deal since Pronto got acquired by Travis Kalanick's Atoms Inc.
· 10 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced the close of a $95 million Fund II.
· 10 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’
The company's novel rocket engine could be a game changer for the U.S. military.
· 12 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Hermeus raises $350M to build unmanned hypersonic fighters
The defense aviation startup is coming off two successful flight demonstrations, and with the next one, it's aiming to go supersonic.
· 12 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Why a former AirPods engineer is now building heat pumps
Merino Energy has simplified the heat pump dramatically in a quest to make them cheaper and easier to install.
· 19 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
The company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger
The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
ReelShort made $1.2 billion on werewolf romances. Watch Club wants to do it better.
Over the past few years, a new category of mobile apps has quietly exploded into a multi-billion dollar business. They’re called “microdramas” — short-form, mobile-first scripted shows designed to be watched vertically on your phone. Think soap opera meets TikTok, complete with secret billionaire ro
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
How soap opera-TikTok hybrids became a billion-dollar business
Over the past few years, a new category of mobile apps has quietly exploded into a multi-billion dollar business. They’re called “micro dramas” — short-form, mobile-first scripted shows designed to be watched vertically on your phone. Think soap opera meets TikTok, complete with secret billionaire r
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing
The startup provides an e-prescribing marketplace for the booming cash-pay clinic market.
· 26 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Insight Partners scrubs investment post about Delve amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations
After a whistleblower alleged that the startup fabricated audit evidence, its prominent Series A investor removed an article detailing why it led the deal.
· 26 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
Flighty’s new update gives you real-time alerts about airport disturbances
Flighty's new feature will give users real-time updates about why operations at an airport are disrupted.
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch Startups
H&M wants to make clothing from CO2 using this startup’s tech
Rubi has developed an enzymatic process to turn carbon dioxide into cellulose that's ready to be spun into lyocell or viscose.