March 20, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Arc expands into electric commercial and defense boats with $50M raise: The Los Angeles startup raised $50 million from Eclipse, a16z, Menlo Ventures, and others as it seeks to expand beyond sport boats. Read More

Tools for founders to navigate and move past conflict: Founders can create frameworks for working through conflict and change when the team is just two or three people, and if done correctly, it can scale with the company. Read More

Alphabet's X has a new spinout, and it's going after one of the world's most expensive bureaucratic nightmares: Anori aims to shrink the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years. Read More

Must-Reads

Why Garry Tan's Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate: Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan's Claude Code setup, which was shared on GitHub. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Read More

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are still open: Nominate your startup, or one you know, for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 before May 27. Chance to win $100,000 equity-free funding and VC access. Read More

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition: The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it. Read More

US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B: The Army described this as a single enterprise contract consolidating more than 120 separate "procurement actions." Read More

Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise: Cloaked's latest round is a mix of equity and growth funding. Read More

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Last but Not Least

This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt: The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise. Read More

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