<p>Small businesses could be crushed under President Trump’s increased tariffs, according to an open letter by 38 female consumer product founders. While Trump paused his tariff increases for 90 days for various countries &#8212; setting the rate at 10% for now &#8212; China&#8217;s was raised to 145%, which includes the previous 20% levy. In the letter, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management team meetings on a bi-weekly basis so it can get “candid feedback,” according to co-founder Patrick Collison. In an April 8 post on X, the fintech giant’s CEO said the company has a customer join for the first 30 minutes of the meeting, which is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handle about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and CEO, Matt Soule, wants to change that by putting a modern autonomous and electric twist on the centuries-old railroad system.  The Los Angeles-based company [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Matt Rogers says Quilt is picking up where his old startup, Nest, left off.</p>

<p>TechCrunch Sessions: AI is fast approaching. So, what does that mean for you? It means exhibit tables are nearly gone — and now’s your chance to grab one before they’re all sold out. If you’ve got a game-changing product to showcase to the AI world, don’t keep it quiet. Exhibit your brand in front of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startups aren&#8217;t isolated from the world. But this week, funding news felt positively uncorrelated from the overall news cycle, offering somewhat of a reprieve — or perhaps [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mark your calendar — StrictlyVC London is just around the corner on May 13. Designed for founders, entrepreneurs, and investors, this exclusive gathering promises deep VC insight and high-value connections. We’re thrilled to welcome our first pair of confirmed speakers: Nazo Moosa, managing director of Paladin Capital Group, and Sonali De Rycker, partner of Accel [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A few years ago, Chef Robotics was hurting. But founder<br /> Rajat Bhageria turned it around by doing something that early-stage founders fear to do.</p>

<p>Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meghan Markle is stepping further into the world of business and entrepreneurship.  In an interview with Fortune, Meghan revealed that she is an angel investor in the healthcare company Midi, which provides a virtual platform to help treat women experiencing menopause and other health-related concerns.  She joined the company’s $63 million Series B round last [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Glossier is reportedly fundraising again, aiming to raise $100 million with a valuation “south of a billion dollars,” according to Puck.&nbsp; Glossier, still one of the more popular beauty brands, was last valued at $1.8 billion nearly four years ago, but has struggled with profitability and scale these past few years. Glossier did not immediately [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer for Coinbase. As he tells it, he was a teenager “who knew how to code and wanted to build cool things.” Obviously too young to get a bank account, Ruskin did freelance development work he found on reddit in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the job market continues to get more competitive, it&#8217;s taking months for new grads to land employment, with many settling for roles that don’t align with their goals. To address this problem, Drafted, a new startup emerging from stealth, has built a jobs platform for students and early-career professionals, a subset of people who [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As Sequoia Capital&#8217;s first defense tech investment, Mach Industries is an industry darling, raising over $80 million since its founding in 2023. Its founder, Ethan Thornton, now 21, began Mach as a teenage MIT student before dropping out to focus full-time on his startup. But a few months before landing a seed investment from Sequoia [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it&#8217;s launching a new, very expensive subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to OpenAI&#8217;s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier, Max comes with higher usage limits than Anthropic&#8217;s $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription, as well as priority access to the company&#8217;s newest AI models and features. A bit confusingly, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last week, prediction market startup Kalshi sued New Jersey and Nevada after they tried to shut down its recently launched sports trading operation. In the lawsuit, Kalshi claimed that, since they&#8217;re a federally regulated platform, state gaming commissions don&#8217;t have the authority to set rules for them. &#8220;We&#8217;re not necessarily very concerned [because] we are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Doing laundry can be a chore. It takes time and is tedious. Few people like to do it. So it’s no surprise that startups have emerged to take that load off your back &#8212; literally. And investors are lining up to fund new and older players alike.&nbsp; Eleven-month-old NoScrubs has just raised $2 million in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s been a tough but exciting year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI sales agent startup Artisan. Artisan just raised a $25 million Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, Carmichael-Jack exclusively tells TechCrunch. Y Combinator, Day One Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Oliver Jung, Fellows Fund, and others participated as well. A year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured $106 million in fresh funding to help scale its autonomous driving technology and advance commercial partnerships.&nbsp; The Series E round brings Nuro’s total funding raised to $2.2 billion and its valuation to $6 billion. That’s a drop from the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s been a couple of years since our last topic-focused, one-day event — but with AI transforming the tech landscape, we couldn’t miss the chance to gather 1,200 founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone shaping the future of AI for a deep dive into what’s next. On June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley, [&hellip;]</p>