Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded TechCrunch By:Marina Temkin 14 May 2026 at 19:20 Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
Clioβs $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante TechCrunch By:Marina Temkin 14 May 2026 at 09:24 Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.
Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen TechCrunch By:Marina Temkin 12 May 2026 at 19:07 As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO TechCrunch By:Marina Temkin 12 May 2026 at 04:09 Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth and early-stage startups.
Mother Ventures is looking at moms as the βeconomic engineβ TechCrunch By:Marina Temkin 8 May 2026 at 21:46 The VC firm, which focuses on mothers as consumers, raised a $10 million debut fund.