CapitalOct 25, 2026 · 12:42 AM ET · Marginal Revolution Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya Vijay, 17, is building Forge, supporting overlooked, self-taught young founders with shared housing, capital, and access. Dev Goyal received a grant for SCRIPT, exploring whether stylus-based drawing...
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Capital item; Topics: equity, real estate; Source: Marginal Revolution.
BuildersOct 23, 2026 · 4:57 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
Builder score 83Why it scoresRules judge pick: Builders item; Topics: equity, real estate; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
BuildersOct 23, 2026 · 3:25 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Builders item; Topics: equity; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
BuildersOct 23, 2026 · 3:06 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
Builder score 83Why it scoresRules judge pick: Builders item; Topics: equity, real estate; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
BuildersOct 23, 2026 · 12:26 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor, and others as angels, it says.
Builder score 100Why it scoresRules judge pick: Builders item; Topics: agents, equity, real estate; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
BuildersOct 22, 2026 · 6:08 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Builders item; Topics: equity; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
BuildersOct 22, 2026 · 4:00 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polsia's Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days.
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Builders item; Topics: equity; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
AIOct 21, 2026 · 4:57 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: equity; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
BuildersOct 21, 2026 · 2:51 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Builders item; Topics: equity; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
BuildersOct 21, 2026 · 1:18 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Builders item; Topics: equity; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
AIOct 15, 2026 · 9:04 AM ET · Simon Willison Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday. Lots of details in here from " people with knowledge of the matter ". Key things I learned from the article: Q1 revenue (Jan/Feb/Mar) was "about $4.8bn" Q2 (Apr/May/Jun) was $11.5bn...
Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: equity; Source: Simon Willison.
AIOct 15, 2026 · 6:08 AM ET · Latent Space Sandboxes are all you need.
Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: equity; Source: Latent Space.
AIOct 14, 2026 · 10:04 AM ET · a16z What an AI-native Red Ventures could look like
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents, equity; Source: a16z.
