Julie Bort

Applications are open for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield. If you are pitching your pre-seed; seed startup to my email inbox, please apply! If your company is exciting (even if I don't bite and write about it), it might just win! techcrunch.com/2026-startup-b…

Had a coffee this week with a recent-former CCO of a public tech co who told me their execs created voice models of themselves with @ElevenLabs so they didn’t have to record their quarterly earnings prepared remarks anymore.

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files in today's Apple Support app update (v5.13)

@adamlyttleapps I literally broke the news to TechCrunch while it was removed because I wanted to warn other developers so I reached out to @Julie188 right away - good to see it got covered by @SarahPerezTC - I made a post about it instagram.com/reel/DXNch56jU…

This is art

Sorry, but it just had to be done.

I made a USB-Clawd who gets my attention when Claude Code finishes a response

@ishaan_jaff @GergelyOrosz @dlewis ah, interesting. doing a short post about it since I wrote about it in the first place. Hope things are back to normal for you now and am watching for the incident report.

This is part of our commitment to being the most secure and transparent AI Gateway possible CC @GergelyOrosz @dlewis @Julie188 since you all originally posted about our SOC-2 just wanted to share an update from our side and that we heard the feedback

Update from us @LiteLLM, We will be partnering with @TrustVanta for its SOC-2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 recertification. Thank you to the Vanta team for their quick help! We are also in the process of identifying 3rd party auditors to verify our compliance controls.

We took tech editor @Julie188 inside Amazon's custom chip lab. During the visit, Julie walked through rows of workstations topped with open server sleds, watched an engineer weld tiny integrated circuit components by way of microscope, and snapped a selfie with chip PR lead @DoronAronson inside the lab’s mini data center. Dive deep into the tour with @TechCrunch: go.aws/4lTF7VQ

@Sherveen @TechCrunch Ok! done!

@TechCrunch @Julie188 please feel free to use my full and enthusiastic name as it relates to my Product Hunt commentary. :)

Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why…

Welcome to the era of Aaas 🤷🏻‍♀️

NanoClaw creator is living a dream right now. Such a cool developer success story, in large part because @karpathy took a look and had a convo. We'll see what the future holds. techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/the…

Here is a list of all startup accelerators you can apply to right now: @ycombinator ($500k for ~7%) @a16z ($750k-$1M for ~7-10%) @pioneerdotapp ($20k for 1%) @the_mint_vc ($500k for 10%) @angelpad ($120k for 7%) @techstars ($220k for ~5-7%) @500GlobalVC ($112.5k for 6%) @EFStartups ($250k for ~9%) @southparkcommon ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on) @sequoia ($1M) @pearvc ($250k-$2M) @greylock (SAFE note + $500k+ in credits) @conviction ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE) @openai ($1M equity investment) @StartupWiseGuys (up to €65k for equity) @apxaccel (up to €500k, typically €50k for 5%) @southparkcommon ($150k for 5-10%) @seedcamp (€100k-€200k for 7-7.5%) @antlervc (€100k for 10% + stipend / $200k-$250k for 8-9%) @googlestartups (up to $100k) @accel (up to $500k-$1M) @aigrant ($250k uncapped) @aforecapital ($100k-$500k) @BoostVC (up to $500k for 15%)

I wanna see the CEO of Concur doing an expense report.

i want to see the ceo of adobe try to cancel their adobe subscription.

I don’t want to watch the McDonald’s CEO eat a burger. I want to watch Satya use Copilot

Venture capital is crazy. I met a 20-year-old founder who just raised $100M. Naturally, I asked how he got started. He said he just built a landing page in Wix. No product. No users. Not even a cool domain. He started cold DMing VCs on LinkedIn with his deck. No traction, but it had great vibes. He added “AI-powered” in the subtitle just in case. Used Midjourney to mock up the product screenshots. Within a week, he had 4 term sheets. Oversubscribed. No board seats. No liquidation preference. Just vibes. Now he’s scaling to $1B in ARR - still no product. He says fundraising is easy if you “manifest it.” None of this happened btw.

Outside Anthropic's office in SF... intense moment!

Uploaded my floor plan to ChatGPT to see how to arrange my bed and wardrobe. The result:

Can we stop putting cookie warnings on our web sites or not yet?