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A guide to announcing a raise, including when to offer one reporter an exclusive and how embargoes work.

How to announce a funding round

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Offer an exclusive when your story needs explaining.
Prepare quotes, photos and numbers before you pitch.

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TechCrunch's competition at Disrupt: 200 companies selected to show, one winning a $100K equity-free prize, with press and investor attention for all of them.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield

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Apply for the Battlefield 200 to exhibit and pitch at Disrupt.
The winner takes $100K with no equity.
Alumni count 1,700+ companies and $32B raised.

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The 2013 essay that coined the word unicorn for a startup valued at over $1 billion, by Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures, with the data on how rare they were.

Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups

From techcrunch.com by Aileen Lee 15 min read

Lee counted 39 US software companies valued at over $1 billion, about 0.07% of venture-backed software startups.
About four unicorns were born a year in the decade she studied.
Enterprise unicorns raised less private capital than consumer ones.

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The global technology press's startup coverage: funding rounds, launches and the companies Indian founders compete with or sell to.

TechCrunch: startups

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Read for global funding and product news.
Track competitors and buyers outside India.
Most stories free.

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TechCrunch's January 2026 report on Emergent, the Indian AI app builder, raising $70 million from SoftBank and Khosla Ventures. Read it to know who is behind the one Indian-built option in the category.

Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent triples valuation to $300M with $70M fundraise

From techcrunch.com by Jagmeet Singh 5 min read

Emergent is an Indian startup in the same category as Lovable and Bolt.
It raised $70 million in January 2026 at a $300 million valuation.
Useful context before trusting a young tool with your product.

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