The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch.
This round follows a previous $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton. All told, the company has now raised $88 million.
Ollama, which launched in 2023, helps devs run open-weight AI models on their PCs, getting them up and running in…
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Indian IT services giant Infosys, will no longer serve as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm he co-founded nearly a decade ago.
Nilekani (pictured above) will be stepping down from his role as Fundamentum…
Being Good at Your Job Is No Longer Enough. Being Known for It Is the New Career Currency.
July 9, 2026
AI made publishing effortless – and credibility scarce. Here’s why thought leadership now decides who gets the client, the capital, and the call, and what it takes to build it without wrecking your reputation.
Somewhere this week, a contract, a funding round, or a…
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusable rockets to compete with SpaceX.
“It’s real simple for me,” Stoke CEO Andy Lapsa told TechCrunch of meeting Weil when he co-founded Stoke in 2020 and soon after joined Y Combinator’s winter batch. “I came out…
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions.
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of…
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon.
“In the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the second…
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
July 8, 2026
Claude Cowork – Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work – is coming to your phone.
Claude Cowork launched as a desktop app in January, but starting Tuesday it is available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later – even if their laptop is…
Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
July 8, 2026
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new kind of security startup.
Savi Security seeks…
Forterra, a U.S. builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in…
Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being used to train AI unless you opt out.
The change came about via an under-the-radar…
