Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Founders, your window to enter Startup Battlefield 200 closes in just three short days. Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Do not wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Thousands of startups have already stepped forward. If you’re building a company…

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Supabase doubles valuation to B in 8 months

Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months

Supabase, the open source database of choice for the vibe coding world, has raised a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced Friday. That’s about $10.5 billion after the investment. The newly minted decacorn has been doubling its valuation every few months for a couple of years now, as…

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Alphabet’s record-breaking B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

If Alphabet’s record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings — and it does — we can safely say that investors are voracious. Google’s parent company had initially intended to sell a first tranche of $40 billion worth of various equity instruments — two different classes of shares, plus smaller “depositary shares”…

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A startup, Everand, is now bundling ebooks, audiobooks, and book clubs in challenge to Amazon

A startup, Everand, is now bundling ebooks, audiobooks, and book clubs in challenge to Amazon

Audiobook, ebook, or both? Now, you won’t have to choose. The Scribd-owned reading subscription service Everand wants to make the choice unnecessary. On Tuesday, the company took the wraps off a combined subscription that brings together Everand’s catalog of over 1.5 million audiobooks and ebooks with the social book club app Fable, which Everand acquired…

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