timef 12/01/2025
- At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far techcrunch.com2025-12-01 22:30:00
Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year.
- Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation techcrunch.com2025-12-01 22:08:13
The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures.
- Korea’s Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers’ personal information techcrunch.com2025-12-01 20:26:15
E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.
- Varda says it has proven space manufacturing works — now it wants to make it boring techcrunch.com2025-12-01 10:11:19
CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn't "in the space industry; we're in-space industry," he said. Space is "just another place to ship to."
- ‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’ techcrunch.com2025-12-01 06:53:15
James Cameron’s movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology, but that doesn't make him a fan of generative AI.
- New report examines how David Sacks might profit from Trump administration role techcrunch.com2025-12-01 05:39:04
David Sacks’ role as President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar could work out very well for his investments, according to a new report. However, Sacks fired back, calling the story a "nothing burger."
- ChatGPT launched three years ago today techcrunch.com2025-12-01 04:14:09
It’s no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the worlds of business and tech.
- Behind the scenes of drone food delivery in Finland techcrunch.com2025-12-01 00:59:48
TechCrunch went behind the scenes of a three-party partnership between Irish drone delivery company Manna, Doordash-owned food delivery platform Wolt, and food startup Huuva.
