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Greenairy is building smart plant towers to clean the air in your office; plus, Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia
Oct 8, 20266 min
Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet; plus, name Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius
Oct 7, 20268 min
Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era; plus, after Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests
Oct 6, 20267 min
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps; plus, Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup
Oct 5, 20266 min
World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months; plus, turning idle car inventory into rental revenue
Oct 2, 20266 min
Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition
Oct 1, 20267 min
Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot; plus, EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B
Sep 30, 20266 min
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion; Physical AI chip developer SiMa AI hits $1.45B valuation
Sep 29, 20265 min
Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
Sep 28, 20265 min
Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting; plus, Feather is building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers
Sep 25, 20268 min
Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely; plus, PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in Canada
Sep 24, 20267 min
a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school; plus, AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
Sep 23, 20268 min
A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline
Sep 22, 20268 min
Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance
Sep 18, 20265 min
Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel; plus, Hang Ten Systems nabbed another $53m
Sep 17, 20269 min
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents; plus, health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation
Sep 16, 20268 min
Superhuman acquired notetaker Fathom; plus, OpenAI bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging, and AI infrastructure company Cornelis raised $205M
Sep 15, 20267 min
Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world; plus, Mecka AI nears $500M valuation amid rush for robot training data
Sep 14, 20267 min
Defense tech Mach Industries doubled its valuation in 3 months; plus, Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
Sep 11, 20268 min
CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks; plus, Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony
Sep 10, 20266 min
Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch; plus, Poseidon Aerospace eyes first pilotless test flight, and Stoke Space raises another billion
Sep 9, 202612 min
Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business; plus, Krafton doubles down on India
Sep 8, 20265 min
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race; plus, Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman
Sep 7, 20269 min
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Sep 6, 20262 min
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Sep 5, 20262 min
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months;plus, Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
Sep 4, 20264 min
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments; plus, AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn
Sep 3, 20267 min
Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families; plus, Newlight is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient
Sep 2, 20269 min
Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’; plus, Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video
Sep 1, 20269 min
Belgian electric motorcycle startup 'Any' bets on cargo space; plus, Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability
Aug 31, 20269 min
This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground; plus, Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
Aug 28, 20267 min
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Aug 27, 20265 min
Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power; plus, Stability AI raises $76 million in fresh funding
Aug 26, 20267 min
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom; plus, Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters
Aug 24, 20268 min
Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part; plus, Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
Aug 21, 20266 min
AI isn’t close to curing cancer. Vivodyne says it knows what it will take; plus, TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers
Aug 20, 202610 min
DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs; plus, Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Aug 19, 20266 min
Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic; plus, Wispr looks beyond dictation
Aug 18, 20267 min
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition; plus, Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
Aug 17, 20262 min
How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
Aug 14, 20267 min
Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people and the grid will actually want; plus, AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x
Aug 13, 20269 min
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym; plus, Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device
Aug 12, 20269 min
Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Aug 11, 20266 min
This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs
Aug 10, 20268 min
Naïve automates the grunt work of setting up and running a company, plus, Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B, and Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform
Aug 7, 202611 min
Can WindBorne make AI weather prediction lucrative? Plus, Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Aug 6, 20267 min
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits; also, is the future of data centers portable?
Aug 5, 20268 min
June thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem; plus, Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries
Aug 4, 20267 min
When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public?; plus, Okta buys AI security startup Permiso
Aug 3, 20268 min
Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom; plus Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B
Jul 31, 20267 min