This digest compiles the latest from Tech Crunch.
Today’s Tech Crunch Roundup
ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand
30 Mar 2026, 1:52 pm by Kate Park
ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.
AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million at $2.3B valuation in pre-IPO round
30 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm by Lucas Ropek
The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia’s dominance.
Mistral AI raises $830M in debt to set up a data center near Paris
30 Mar 2026, 12:49 pm by Ivan Mehta
Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.
Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales
30 Mar 2026, 12:30 pm by Kate Park
As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.
Starcloud raises $170 million Series A to build data centers in space
30 Mar 2026, 11:00 am by Tim Fernholz
Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.
Why OpenAI really shut down Sora
30 Mar 2026, 3:09 am by Connie Loizos
OpenAI’s decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?
End of today’s Tech Crunch roundup.
