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Blackrock-backed Minute Media acquires Indian AI startup that extracts sports highlights

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BlackRock and Goldman Sachs-backed media startup Minute Media, which owns properties like Sports Illustrated, The Players’ Tribune, and 90 Minutes, announced Monday that it is acquiring VideoVerse, an Indian AI startup that lets broadcasters extract highlights and create content from sports footage. VideoVerse’s clients include the Indian Premier League and Women’s Premier League Cricket tournaments, […]

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ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe

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ReOrbit, a Finnish startup focused on sovereign satellites, has raised a record €45 million (about US $53 million) Series A round of funding for a European space tech company. That’s another sign that European new space market is heating up, fueled by a geopolitical environment in which interdependence has become a concern. Founded in 2019

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Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC

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Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced Monday that it has gone public in a reverse merger, netting the company $30 million. No, it’s not 2021. The startup is proposing to build small, cylindrical nuclear power plants and lower them into 30-inch diameter holes drilled one mile down into the Earth. By burying the reactors, the company

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Flexport’s Ryan Petersen joins the Builders Stage at Disrupt 2025

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One of the biggest questions facing founders today: How do you keep building when the rules won’t stop shifting? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, where we celebrate TechCrunch’s 20th anniversary from October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, we’ll hear firsthand from Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport, on the Builders Stage. Why Ryan’s

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Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Disrupt 2025 agenda

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For the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch, Disrupt 2025 (taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco) gets real about one of the most pressing founder questions: compensation and equity. On the Builders Stage, a panel of experts who’ve lived it, scaled it, and solved it will tackle the tough questions every startup faces

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Learn to create communities and companies that last at Disrupt 2025

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When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this live Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last,” only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This fireside chat brings together Jason Citron, founder

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Brand new unicorn IQM sets its sights beyond Europe for its quantum computers

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Finnish quantum computing startup IQM is now a unicorn: The company just raised more than $300 million in a Series B funding round that was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, a U.S. investment firm focused on cybersecurity. A university spinout, IQM builds quantum computers meant for on-premises installations as well as a cloud platform that taps

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