Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a new AI agent startup, and already raised $10 million. Vine Ventures led the round, with…
China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Chinese AI lab Manus’ parent company, Butterfly Effect, said on Thursday in a WeChat post that it has raised more than $500 million, the company’s first funding round since Meta…
Last call to volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
TechCrunch Founder Summit is gearing up to return to Boston on November 4! We’re doing a last call for exceptional volunteers to join us in bringing this event to life.…
Police-reported hate crime and cybercrime, preliminary quarterly data, second quarter 2026
Police-reported crime data are drawn from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, a census of all crime known to police services. Police-reported crime statistics conform to a nationally approved set of…
Economic contribution of critical mineral production in Canada, 2024
Released: 2026-10-08 Tab 1 Tab 2 Nominal gross domestic product attributable to the production of critical minerals Number of jobs associated with the extraction and production of critical minerals With…
Farm Input Price Index, second quarter 2026
The Farm Input Price Index is an indicator of the change in input costs Canadian farmers face. The indexes are not seasonally adjusted. The indexes are available for 13 geographic…
Retail Commodity Survey, July 2026
The Retail Commodity Survey collects national-level retail sales data, by commodity, from the same businesses surveyed in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey. No data have been seasonally adjusted. All percentage…
Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders
Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced on Thursday that it raised a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital. The startup uses AI agents to…
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia
In Brief Posted: 4:36 PM PDT · October 7, 2026 Image Credits:J Studios / Getty Images Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid…
Executive Interview: Anomaly
“There is some commonly held belief out there that AI in healthcare is synonymous with automation, task automation, reducing human effort simply by automating away what can be automated, and…