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As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck | TechCrunch
Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back...
Indian pharmacy chain giant exposed customer data and internal systems | TechCrunch
A security lapse by one of India’s largest pharmacy chains allowed outsiders to gain full administrative control of its platform, exposing customer order data...
Upside Robotics is reducing fertilizer use and waste in corn crops | TechCrunch
The founders of Upside Robotics met in 2023 because they were both looking to build an impact-driven company that touched climate and agriculture. Less...
Exclusive: Tem raises $75M to remake electricity markets using AI | TechCrunch
As AI data centers drive up electricity prices, London-based startup Tem thinks AI might be able to help solve it, too.
Tem has built an...
Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips | TechCrunch
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed...
Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M | TechCrunch
As demand grows for privacy-first enterprise AI that can run without sending sensitive data to the cloud, SpotDraft has raised $8 million from Qualcomm...
Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off | TechCrunch
Companies and governments are looking for tools to run AI locally in a a bid slash cloud infrastructure costs and build sovereign capability. Quadric,...
AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post | TechCrunch
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and...
Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable | TechCrunch
Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest...
Ex-Splunk execs’ startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A | TechCrunch
Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous site reliability engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems, has raised a Series A led...
