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Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; Aseon Labs wants to fix that; plus, General Intuition bets that video games can train AI agents for the real world
Jun 26, 202616 min
Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950; also, Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII
Jun 25, 20266 min
Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
Jun 24, 20265 min
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
Jun 23, 20263 min
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
Jun 22, 20265 min
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names; plus, General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
Jun 19, 20265 min
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Jun 18, 20264 min
Startup Foundation Alloy developed a new alloying technique; plus, Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
Jun 17, 20268 min
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world; plus, Theker building a factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
Jun 15, 20266 min
Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source; Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their businessplus,
Jun 12, 202612 min
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in; plus, Zest launches a restaurant discovery app
Jun 11, 202610 min
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station; plus, so long FAANG and hello to MANGOS
Jun 10, 20266 min
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
Jun 8, 20264 min
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
Jun 5, 20269 min
Brynn Putnam's Board raised $20M; plus, ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves
Jun 4, 20266 min
Pacific Fusion’s latest prototype packs 440 gigawatts into an 80-nanosecond burst; plus, Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
Jun 3, 20268 min
Snap alums unveil Ghost Angels fund; Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation
Jun 2, 20268 min
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory; plus, Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
Jun 1, 20269 min
Corgi doubled in value in 3 weeks; plus, Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
May 29, 20268 min
SOND, a sleep tech startup, exits stealth with $7M; plus, Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M
May 28, 202611 min
Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation; OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
May 27, 20264 min
Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app; also, Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled ARR
May 26, 20269 min
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century
May 25, 20266 min
Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering; plus, Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation
May 22, 20266 min
Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind; plus, NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer
May 21, 202610 min
Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment; plus, Stilta helps companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
May 20, 20268 min
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses; plus, Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
May 19, 20268 min
Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware; plus, Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders
May 18, 20265 min
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby; plus, Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%
May 15, 20267 min
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante; plus, Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
May 14, 20267 min
Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen
May 13, 20264 min
Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO; plus, Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
May 12, 20268 min
Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build rockets for space data centers; plus what will the whisper-filled office of the future sound like
May 11, 20267 min
A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom; plus, Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack
May 8, 202610 min
Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding; plus, Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences
May 7, 20269 min
OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO; plus, Katie Haun raises $1 billion for new venture funds
May 6, 20266 min
Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity; Meta buys robotics startup
May 4, 20266 min
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter; also, Shapes brings humans and AI into the same group chats
May 1, 20268 min
Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field; plus, BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund
Apr 30, 20267 min
BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
Apr 29, 20265 min
Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage
Apr 27, 20266 min
Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools; Also, another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident
Apr 24, 20267 min
Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI; Esther and Anne Wojcicki join new healthcare accelerator
Apr 23, 202610 min
SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people; AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed
Apr 22, 20268 min
SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news; plus, Loop wants to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions
Apr 20, 202610 min
Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO; plus, a simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI
Apr 17, 20268 min
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Apr 16, 20269 min
AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation
Apr 15, 20263 min
OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
Apr 14, 20263 min
Slate Auto raises $650M to fund its affordable EV truck plans
Apr 13, 20263 min