Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B TechCrunch By:Lauren Forristal 15 July 2026 at 19:30 If completed, the acquisition would unite two of the biggest names in digital payments.
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 15 July 2026 at 14:30 Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits TechCrunch By:Marina Temkin 10 July 2026 at 19:00 The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.