September 2025

India’s Offgrid Energy Labs has developed proprietary zinc battery tech as a safer, more cost-effective alternative to lithium for energy storage.

This Japanese AI startup just raised $100M to cut businesses’ admin burden.

Seven Seven Six’s Katelin Holloway represents non-technical VCs pouring billions into space startups, betting operational chops will trump aerospace degrees as the industry shifts from rockets to lunar mining and orbital manufacturing.

With just over a month until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits San Francisco, we’re calling on students, aspiring founders, marketers, and event pros to help the TechCrunch events team pull off one of the largest and most anticipated startup events of the year.

The most valuable skill in business today is translation — the power to bridge vision and execution, clarity and complexity, strategy and reality.

For Web3 to move beyond prototypes and achieve mainstream adoption, blockchains must deliver sub-second speed, massive scalability and predictable costs to meet real-world demands.

From dorm-room startups to faculty-built chatbots, the future of learning is being rewritten right now — and the institutions that can’t keep up are getting left behind.

Discover why potential customers often agree they like your product or service but still walk away without purchasing. Learn the hidden barriers behind these lost sales — and practical steps you can take to turn “yes” into an actual sale.

Runway is building up a robotics-focused team and fine-tuning its existing models for robotics and self-driving car customers.