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MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea; plus, Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy
Jul 29, 20268 min
Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the US military; plus, Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors
Jul 28, 20267 min
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics; plus, Imagi raises $4.5M to help teach students how to vibe code
Jul 24, 20269 min
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation; plus, Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Jul 23, 20267 min
Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants; Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors
Jul 22, 20269 min
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation; plus, Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Jul 21, 20269 min
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant, plus, AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status
Jul 20, 20267 min
Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’; plus, Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica
Jul 17, 202611 min
Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls; plus, the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
Jul 16, 202611 min
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation; plus, Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids
Jul 15, 20266 min
Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ an AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise, plus, Oratomic to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits
Jul 13, 20267 min
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round; plus, popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M
Jul 10, 202610 min
Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine; plus, Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
Jul 9, 20266 min
Bidbus pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car; Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
Jul 8, 202612 min
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups; plus, Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation
Jul 7, 20269 min
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage; plus, Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups
Jul 6, 20266 min
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip; plus, Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Jul 2, 20267 min
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
Jul 1, 20264 min
Corgi says it didn’t steal an open source product; plus, Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
Jun 30, 202610 min
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