Formation Bio raises $372M to boost drug development with AI

June 26, 2024

Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised over a quarter-billion dollars to support its ambitious product roadmap. Formation today announced that it raised $372 million in a Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from drugmaker Sanofi, Sequoia, Thrive, […]

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Announcing the agenda for the Fintech Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

June 26, 2024

We’re incredibly excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated Fintech Stage to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Space, SaaS and AI as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. As the fintech industry evolves, new opportunities abound for founders, investors, and customers. Areas such as mobile banking, global payroll, digital payments, embedded […]

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Dappier is building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content to LLM builders

June 26, 2024

When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners.The iPod and the iTunes music store changed that by allowing artists or publishers to get paid for reusing their content in a digital context. Fast forward to today, and there are companies scraping […]

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Nubank acquires AI-for-banks startup Hyperplane

June 26, 2024

Hyperplane focused on allowing banks to train their own models to power tools across their risk, collections and marketing departments.

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