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Landa promised real estate investing for $5. Now its gone dark.

The idea of becoming a real estate investor for as little as $5 may seem too good to be true. And for...

LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M

LM Arena, a crowdsourced benchmarking project that major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, has raised $100 million...

Last Week: Exhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions AI

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to showcase your newest innovation to a massive AI community, this is it! You have...

Sylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and service used cars in Egypt

Cairo-based Sylndr has raised $15.7 million as it expands beyond online used car sales into auto financing, servicing, and tools for dealers. The...

Deel wants Rippling to hand over any agreements involving paying the alleged spy

Deel has lobbed a new volley in the ongoing legal battle with rival HR tech startup Rippling. Deel filed a motion, containing a...

AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research

AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. ...

Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins

Enterprises want access to new software and AI tools but can’t risk sending their sensitive data out to a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers....

$25B-valued Chime files for an IPO, reveals $33M deal with Dallas Mavericks

At long last, digital consumer bank Chime has moved forward with its IPO by filing its S-1 paperwork Tuesday. Chime had reportedly filed...

Insurtech Bestow lands $120M Series D from Goldman Sachs, Smith Point Capital

Melbourne O’Banion co-founded insurtech Bestow with Jonathan Abelmann in 2017 after struggling to secure his own life insurance policy. His goal was...

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AI

Hungry to learn more about Anthropic, directly from Anthropic? You aren’t alone if so, which is why we’re so delighted to announce that...

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