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Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M-$40M in daily trading volume (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-7

Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo and releases an update to its Mercury coding model (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-7 AI

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-6 Microsoft AI

Wabi, a “YouTube for apps” launched by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda to let users create and share mini apps without coding, raised a $20M pre-seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-6 YouTube

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 AI Goldman

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical adviser (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 India Nvidia

Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 Spotify

WhatsApp launches an Apple Watch companion app, letting users get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 Apple WhatsApp

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs prices its IPO at $2 to $2.5/share, valuing it at $2.9B at the top end of the range, down from a $5B valuation in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-4 India IPO

TikTok announces its first ever TikTok Awards show in the US; the live event will take place on December 18 and will be streamed on the TikTok app and on Tubi (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-4

Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M+ with a minority Alphabet stake (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-3 Alphabet

Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Sen. Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-3 Google AI

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-1

Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-31 AI

Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-31 India Google AI 5G

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, which offers a range of on-demand home services, raised a $30M Series C at a $180M valuation, taking its total funding to $55M (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-30

All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-29 Korea

Mem0, which aims to build a “memory passport” so users' AI memory can travel across their devices, apps, and agents, raised $24M, including a $20M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-29 AI

OpenAI offers its cheaper ChatGPT Go plan for free for one year to users in India starting November 4, but did not say how long the offer would remain available (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-28 India

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will “consummate” a TikTok deal on Thursday in South Korea, confirming a final US-China agreement on the sale (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-27 Trump China Korea

French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-26 France India

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-25 WordPress

Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-23 California

Apple removes controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for failing to meet requirements around content moderation and user privacy (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-23 Apple

Starbridge, which helps businesses monitor public sector opportunities by consolidating fragmented data, raised a $42M Series A led by David Sacks' Craft (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-23

Sumble, which offers an AI sales intelligence service, emerges from stealth and raised a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners and $8.5M seed led by Coatue (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-23 AI Intelligence

Sources: Fal.ai, which hosts multimodal AI models for developers, raised ~$250M at a $4B+ valuation, less than three months after announcing a $125M Series C (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-22 AI

Sesame, which is developing an AI agent with a natural-sounding human voice and smart glasses, raised a $250M Series B and opens an early beta of its iOS app (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-22 IOS AI

YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-22 AI YouTube

Serval, which uses agentic AI models to automate IT service management for clients like Perplexity and Mercor, raised a $47M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-22 AI

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