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Oct 8, 2026, 4:45 PMStartups

Commissary Club Uses AI to Help Ex-Cons Find Jobs and Housing

Commissary Club uses AI to help former prisoners find jobs, housing, benefits and community, charging $149 after the first 10 free applications for jobs.

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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 Volunteer Deadline Is October 19▲

Bloom Raises $3.6M to Build an AI Alibaba for US Manufacturing

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 Brings Fundraising, AI and Scaling Lessons to Boston▲

Founder Summit 2026 Side Event Applications Close at Midnight PT

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Founder Guide: Dates, Speakers, Startup Battlefield and Discounts▲

Board, Heirloom and Flow Bet Millions on Offline Connection

Noise Raises $5.5 Million to Turn Everyday Users Into Paid Creators

Pulley Shuts Down December 8, Sends Customers to Rival Carta▼

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Builders Stage Sets Startup Scaling Agenda

Frontier models can recover up to 65% of facts they can't directly

Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages

GoPro to be acquired for $285M, will remain a public company

Help build the future of startups: Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt

Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for

Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s

a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund

Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at

Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition

How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems

Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 —

Friend-focused photo-sharing app Retro snags $21M

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

CivilGrid Raises $26 Million to Build Google Maps for Underground Utilities

A gilded handshake cracks open around debt chains, symbolizing the collapse of the VideoVerse acquisition.

Minute Media’s $250 Million VideoVerse Deal Unravels Amid Fraud Claims▼

Blacksmith Valuation Nears 10x Jump to $550M With $45M Series B

Phia Founders Reportedly Knew of Cookie Stuffing for Months▼

Eight Australian Startups Selected for Startup Battlefield at Stripe Tour Sydney▲