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Becky Byran

Becky Byran is an avid reader, music enthusiast and all-around inquisitive person – which is just a nice way of saying she’s nosy.

Venture Capitalists are Doubling Down on Render

Venture capitalists are doubling down on Render, a startup offering easy-to-use cloud infrastructure. On Tuesday it said it has raised $100 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation.

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Thrive Capital Closes $10 Billion for a New Fund

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for a new fund— the largest fund it has ever raised and nearly double the size of its last fund.

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SpendRule Raises $2 Million Funding Round

SpendRule is a technology that ensures hospitals pay only what was negotiated in their contracts. It is integrated with and operates on top of a hospital system’s current enterprise resource

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Mesh Optical Technologies Announces $50 Million Series A Funding

Mesh Optical Technologies, a Los Angeles startup that announced a $50 million Series A led by Thrive Capital on Tuesday.

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IBM Plans to Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the U.S. in 2026

Hardware giant IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according to reporting from Bloomberg.

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Axiom Space Raises $350 Million Funding Round

Axiom Space, which provides suits for NASA’s moon missions and is building a successor to the International Space Station, has raised $350 million

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Donald Trump Revokes EPA Finding on Greenhouse Gas Threat

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding that serves as the legal foundation for federal regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions

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Ever to Scale After Raising $31 Million Series A Funding Round

If you want to buy or sell a used EV right now, what’s the first step you’d take? A startup called Ever wants to be the answer to that question.

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Inertia Enterprises Raises $450 Million

Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve as the foundation of a grid-scale power plant

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How Exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt Drives Real Growth

From October 13–15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and decision-makers will converge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

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Nominations for the 2026 Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award are Officially Open

Nominations for the 2026 Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award are officially open, inviting groundbreaking technologies and solutions to step into the spotlight and be recognized

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MrBeast's Beast Industries is Buying Step, a Teen-Focused Banking App

YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app.

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