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Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months;plus, Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston

HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments; plus, AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn

Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families; plus, Newlight is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’; plus, Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video

Belgian electric motorcycle startup 'Any' bets on cargo space; plus, Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability

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

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power; plus, Stability AI raises $76 million in fresh funding

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom; plus, Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters

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

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

DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs; plus, Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic; plus, Wispr looks beyond dictation

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition; plus, Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures

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

Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym; plus, Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device

Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs

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

Can WindBorne make AI weather prediction lucrative? Plus, Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits; also, is the future of data centers portable?

June thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem; plus, Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public?; plus, Okta buys AI security startup Permiso

Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom; plus Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea; plus, Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy

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

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics; plus, Imagi raises $4.5M to help teach students how to vibe code

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

Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants; Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors

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

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

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’; plus, Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica

Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls; plus, the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation; plus, Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids

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

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

Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine; plus, Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation

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

Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups; plus, Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage; plus, Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups

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

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

Corgi says it didn’t steal an open source product; plus, Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet

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

Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950; also, Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII

Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates

Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

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

SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants

Startup Foundation Alloy developed a new alloying technique; plus, Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

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

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,

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in; plus, Zest launches a restaurant discovery app

Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station; plus, so long FAANG and hello to MANGOS

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft

Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.

Brynn Putnam's Board raised $20M; plus, ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves

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

Snap alums unveil Ghost Angels fund; Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation

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

Corgi doubled in value in 3 weeks; plus, Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

SOND, a sleep tech startup, exits stealth with $7M; plus, Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M

Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation; OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app; also, Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled ARR

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century

Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering; plus, Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation

Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind; plus, NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer

Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment; plus, Stilta helps companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had

South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses; plus, Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo

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

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby; plus, Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante; plus, Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B

Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO; plus, Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data

Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build rockets for space data centers; plus what will the whisper-filled office of the future sound like

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom; plus, Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack

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

OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO; plus, Katie Haun raises $1 billion for new venture funds

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity; Meta buys robotics startup

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

Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field; plus, BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund

BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools; Also, another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI; Esther and Anne Wojcicki join new healthcare accelerator

SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people; AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed

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

Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO; plus, a simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

Slate Auto raises $650M to fund its affordable EV truck plans

Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine; plus, Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech

TC's Julie Bort can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee; plus, Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award

AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost; plus, Hermeus raises $350M to build unmanned hypersonic fighters

Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI

Peter Thiel’s big bet on solar-powered cow collars; plus, Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M dea

Beehiiv expands into podcasting; also, Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II

Commonwealth Fusion Systems leans on magnets for near-term revenue; plus the company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger

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ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand; Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales

Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation; plus, Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation

Conntour raises $7M to build an AI search engine for security video systems; plus, Lucid Bots raises $20M for its window-washing drones

Seattle's Brinc just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters; Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem

Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way; plus, Flighty gives you real-time alerts about airport disturbances

Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI; plus, the SEC dropped its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future

AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good; plus, Delve accused of misleading customers

Geothermal startup Fervo catapults itself over the ‘valley of death’; K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute

Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators

H&M wants to make clothing from CO2 using this startup’s tech; plus, Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs

Fuse wants to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by US credit unions; plus, Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B

The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)

A Chinese Brain-Computer Interface startup raised $21M just two months after launch; plus, Gumloop turns every employee into an AI agent builder

Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots

Canopii looks to succeed where past indoor farms have not; plus, Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legal tech boom endures

Robinhood’s startup fund stumbled in NYSE debut, plus, AI network startup Eridu emerged from stealth, and ModRetro seeking funding at $1B valuation

Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes; plus, Lio raised $30M from A16Z and others to automate enterprise procurement

Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market

Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation; plus, three companies dominated the $189 billion in VC investments last month

Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices?

Fig Security emerges from stealth with $38M to help security teams deal with change; plus, Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in ARR

MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens

Parade’s Cami Tellez announces new creator economy marketing platform, $4M in funding

Hardware Why China’s humanoid robot industry is winning the early market

Deepinder Goyal returns with a $54M brain-monitoring bet; plus, Ultrahuman bets on redesigned smart ring to win back U.S. market

Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers; plus,

Jest is challenging the app store status quo; plus, Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE

Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M; plus, AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing; plus, Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow

Ukraine’s startups keep building

Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to

Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers; plus. Ali Partovi’s Neo looks to upend the accelerator model

Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India’s AI startup ecosystem; plus, General Catalyst commits $5B to India

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app

Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory; plus, Mirai developing a framework for models to perform better on devices

Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers; plus, World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk

SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending; Mistral AI buys Koyeb; and Thrive raises $10B for new fund, its largest yet

African defensetech Terra Industries, founded by two Gen Zers, raises additional $22M in a month

Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline

Eclipse backs all-EV marketplace Ever in $31M funding round

Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot; plus, AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say

Complyance raises $20M to help companies manage risk and compliance; plus, Integrate raises $17M to move defense project management

Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation

Proptech startup Smart Bricks raises $5 million pre-seed led by a16z

Hauler Hero collects $16M for its AI waste management software

Anthropic closes in on $20B round; plus, Harvey reportedly raising at $11B valuation just months after it hit $8B

Gather AI, maker of ‘curious’ warehouse drones, lands $40M led by Keith Block’s firm

Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools

Fundamental raises a Series A with a new take on big data analysis; plus, Stripe alumni raised a Series A for Duna

Peak XV says internal disagreement led to partner exits as it doubles down on AI

Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips; plus, Apeiron Labs gets $29M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots

Gradient’s heat pumps get new smarts to enable old-building retrofits

Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps

Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants

Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelator for students nationwide

HomeBoost’s app will show you where to save on your utility bills; plus, Waymo reportedly raising a $16B funding round

Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building ‘runtime’ cloud security; plus, AI security startup Outtake raises $40M

Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI; plus, Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building ‘runtime’ cloud security

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama

Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm resumes IPO plans; plus, Fashion rental app By Rotation partners with Uber

Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’; plus, Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use

Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract; plus, AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation

AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’

How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries

This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027

OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars; plus, Anduril expanding to Long Beach

Struggling fusion power company General Fusion to go public via $1B reverse merger

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Language learning marketplace Preply’s unicorn status embodies Ukrainian resilience

PraxisPro raises $6M seed from AlleyCorp to coach medical sales reps

Retail startup Another raises a $2.5M seed to help sell excess inventory

Humans&, a ‘human-centric’ AI startup, raised $480M seed round; plus, Grubhub parent acquires restaurant rewards startup Claim

AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post

AI video startup, Higgsfield, founded by ex-Snap exec, lands $1.3B valuation; plus, Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp

India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace

How one startup is using prebiotics to try and ease the copper shortage

Parloa triples its valuation in 8 months; plus, robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

Bandcamp bans AI generated music, plus Bill Gates-backed Type One Energy raises $87M ahead of $250M Series B

SkyFi raises $12.7M to turn satellite images into insights; plus, OpenAI buying health records startup Torch

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

These Gen Zers just raised $11.75M to put Africa’s defense back in the hands of Africans

How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data

Wing to expand drone delivery to another 150 Walmart stores

Former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla’s startup triples to $100M valuation

EverNitro is simplifying the process of crafting silky nitro coffee at CES 2026

OpenAI acquiring the team behind Convogo; also, Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation 6 months

Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back

How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge

LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product; plus, Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation

How World Cup champion Mario Götze built a parallel career as an angel investor

Teradar reveals its first terahertz-band vision sensor for cars

Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors

‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential

How to make your startup stand out in a crowded market, according to investors

Investors share what to remember while raising a Series A

How Mill closed the deal with Amazon and Whole Foods

Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’

How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems; plus, Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs

How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit; plus Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you

The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation; also, Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech

As EU waters down 2035 EV goals, electric startups express concern

Yann LeCun confirms his new ‘world model’ startup, reportedly seeks $5B+ valuation

OpenAI is reportedly trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation; also, Krafton hikes India bet with new $670M fund

Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation

Weeks after raising $100M, investors pump another $180M into hot Indian startup MoEngage

Radiant Nuclear raises $300M for its semi-sized 1 MW reactor

Nuclear startup Last Energy raises $100M for its steel-encased micro reactor

VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power; plus, Whole Foods to install smart food waste bins from Mill

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem; First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion that helps you build habits

Thea Energy previews Helios, its pixel-inspired fusion power plant

Eclipse Energy’s microbes can turn idle oil wells into hydrogen factories; plus, India’s Spinny lines up funding to acquire GoMechanic

Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI’s ‘after-code’ gap

Interest in Spoor’s bird-monitoring AI software is soaring

On Me raises $6M to shake up the gift card industry; plus, Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage

AI startup Tavus founder says users talk to its AI Santa ‘for hours’ per day; Oboe raises $16 million from a16z for its AI-powered course generation platform

Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers

Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps; Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes

Tiger Global plans cautious venture future with a new $2.2B fund; plus, SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund SkildAI at $14B, nearly tripling its value

Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales ; plus, OpenAI says it’s turned off app suggestions that look like ads

Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless; and Is it time to ‘refound’ your startup?

New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings

Nexus isn’t going all in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups; plus, Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups

VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy

Microreactor startup Antares raises $96M for land, sea, and space-based nuclear power; plus Kalshi raises $1B at $11B valuation

Titan OS raises $58 million from Highland Europe for its smart TV OS; also, Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed

Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation; plus, OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

How AI PR startup Clipbook won Mark Cuban’s investment from a cold email

Are you balding? There’s an AI for that; plus, JustiGuide wants to use AI to help people navigate the US immigration system

Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India’s next AI breakouts

Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths; plus Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites

X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D

This startup wants to build a fusion reactor — on a boat; plus, Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing

Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years; also, Phictly’s new app brings people together over their favorite books and TV shows

The European startup market is ready for the limelight

Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round ; plus, this startup can track objects within 3 cm

After SEC investigation, Curastory founder resigns, hires replacement

Cavela lands $6.6M to help brands beat pre-tariff manufacturing costs; plus Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation

Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easier

Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into bookable itineraries

Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt as consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT

Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework; plus Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan

Is Jeff Bezos returning to the trenches with a new AI startup? Also, Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar

How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start

6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind

Knicks player Miles McBride launches Mmotion, a location-sharing friendship app, also, Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off

How startups can lure good talent fairly without big tech bank accounts

How one founder plans to save cities from flooding with terraforming robots; plus Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund

Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of stealth; plus, Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’

This startup’s metal stacks could help solve AI’s massive heat problem

Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion

Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners and which are still wide open; also, Locket’s social app is picking up steam with Gen Alpha

a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff

Pine Labs aims to take Indian fintech global even as it cuts valuation for IPO

Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue; plus, Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta

YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot; also, Cluely’s Roy Lee on the ragebait strategy for startup marketing

Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion; plus, IntrCity SmartBus lands $30M to deepen its grip on India’s intercity travel market

The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in ChatGPT and other AI apps, plus India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months

Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping, plus, Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistant

AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs; also, Mem0 raises $24M to build the memory layer for AI apps

Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible

Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest

Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen

Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood

Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race

Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs

a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager

Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips, also, Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO

Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices; also, Eightfold raised $35M for an AI digital twin startup

Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense

FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster

Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to build and update websites, and Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab

India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries

Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8B; also,

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production; and Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams

Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere

Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for GM, Ford, and lots of startups

One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse; also, ÄIO invented a method to make edible fat from ag waste like sawdust

A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his AI memory startup, Supermemory

Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund

Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos; plus, If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs

A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes; also, New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million

How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance

Kevin Hart’s VC firm led $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple, also, Electroflow promises to make LFP material for 40% less than Chinese producers

Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool

Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science, plus, Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist

CommanderAI building Salesforce for the waste management industry, also, a year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B

Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks; also, AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews

The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel; plus, ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common ground

Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup, raised huge $21M seed; former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance

Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix food supply chains, also Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries

Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar

Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand; plus Y Combinator's ‘Early Decision’ is for students who want to graduate first, build later

Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD; plus, Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business

Telo raises $20 million to build tiny electric trucks for cities; also, Sila opens U.S. factory to make silicon anodes for energy dense EV batteries

Tim Chen has quietly become of one the most sought-after solo investors; and AI company Superpanel raises $5.3M seed to automate legal intake

Bluesky says it’s getting more aggressive about moderation and enforcement, also, Oura ring maker raising $875M Series E

Nvidia eyes $500M investment into self-driving tech startup Wayve, also, UK fintech Tide becomes a TPG-backed unicorn

Indian fintech Jar turns profitable by enabling millions to save in gold

How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business, also, Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI

Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built

Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round; also, Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s “warehouse work” with embodied-AI robots

Same-day delivery comes to space, as Impulse promises satellite transport in hours, not months, and more

MicroFactory built a tabletop manufacturing kit the size of a s dog crate; also, Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global

Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors

Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse ... and OpenAI's board chair says we’re in an AI bubble (but that’s okay)

Hike, once a unicorn, shuts down as India cracks down on real-money gaming

We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI

The music industry is broken: OpenWav’s new app aims to change that

While US stalls, Australia and Anduril move to put XL undersea vehicle into service, plus Perplexity reportedly raised $200M

Arc gets its first major order for electric tugboats worth $160M, also Klarna’s IPO pops, raising $1.4B

AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness, plus another app just raised $14M to take on the loneliness epidemic

Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market, also Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue

Nuclearn gets $10.5M to help the nuclear industry embrace AI, plus ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe

Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC, Space DOTS raises $1.5M, and Cognition AI defied turbulence with a $400M raise at $10.2B valuation

Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?

Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries and more tech news

AI logistics startup Augment raised massive $85M Series A; plus Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg

Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M; also, Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry

Orchard Robotics raises $22M for farm vision AI; also, Mistral on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation

Advanced geothermal startups are getting warmed up and Fizz expands into grocery delivery

Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183 billion valuation, also OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig

Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B, also India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage

Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone

Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora

Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI’s 95% failure rate

No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation, also US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up

How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change, also, Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls

Terraton wants to be the McDonald’s of biochar, also Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing

Robomart unveils new delivery robot to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats, also

Eyebot gets $20M Series A to boost to expand eye care access and more tech news

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains and Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth

As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug

YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’

Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.

Group14 lands $463M to make silicon anodes for EVs, also, SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains, plus Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still looking to hire agents as employees, also, Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech

Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

Les Amis, the app helping women form friendships, launches in New York ... and more

Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever ... and more news

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up ... and more

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer ... and more

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

AI agents aren’t the ‘new Google,’ says Airbnb CEO

The high costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click, also OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war

Billing platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’

Photo-sharing app Locket is banking on a new celebrity-focused feature to fuel its growth plus Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web

For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS and ElevenLabs launched an AI music generator

Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation and Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

OpenMind wants to be the Android operating system of humanoid robots

Germ brings end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky

Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

Anthropic cut off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models, also PlayerZero raised $15M and Figma’s stock soared in its IPO

Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments

Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup

Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store ... and Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.

Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI

Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel

Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone

Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup

This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents

Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot

The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions

After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering

Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M

Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch

Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track

AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI

Rainmaker partners with Atmo to squeeze more rain from clouds

Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence

Firefly Space files for an IPO

A cloud seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods

RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’ ... and more

Knox lands $6.5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market

Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more

European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones

LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

Why this LA-based VC firm was an early investor in Slate Auto

UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe

Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuation

Former SpaceX manager alleges harassment, retaliation, and security violations in lawsuit

Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gravity production

Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in

Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots

Sri Mandir keeps investors hooked as digital devotion grows

Tailor, a ‘headless’ ERP startup, raises $22M Series A

Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents

Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

PetLibro’s new smart camera uses AI to describe your pet’s movements, and it’s adorable

This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really

Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant

Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars

India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation

Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app

Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

AllSpice’s platform is the GitHub for electrical engineering teams

Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers

VanMoof is back with a new custom e-bike and rebooted repair network

Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate

Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1

Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating for its female user base

Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns

Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup

Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora

Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors

Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs

Zevo’s EV-only car-share fleet is helping Tesla owners make money

Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools

Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient

Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup

Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A

Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG

Mitra Chem is raising $50M for its cheaper, domestic battery materials

XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month

An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs and other socially taboo products

Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers

Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too

North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment

Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models

Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year’

Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI

Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B

NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’

Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X

Grocery platform Misfits Market acquires The Rounds to further its mission of reducing food waste

Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024

Context gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suite

Rillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AI

A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding

Litehaus raises €1.46M pre-seed to build home-building platform

Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8 billion

Rocket Lab backer Outset raises $25M to fund New Zealand’s deep tech moonshots

RevenueCat raises $50M as it expands beyond mobile app monetization

The wild story of how gut health AI toilet startup Throne raised $4M led by Moxxie

A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model

Hinge Health pops 17%, but joins growing ranks of down round IPOs

Alt Carbon scores $12M seed to scale carbon removal in India

Field raises $17M to automate the drudgery of tax prep

Brex partners with former competitor Zip, with an eye on reducing cash burn to get to an IPO

Sylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and service used cars in Egypt

Gravitee, a platform that helps companies manage APIs, raises $60M

Adaptation Ventures is a new angel investor group focused on disability and accessibility tech

AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing

Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees

Acorns acquires family wealth and digital memory platform EarlyBird

Bain bets on Indian domestic work startup Pronto even as rivals face criticism

AI note-taking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features

Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins

Anthropic, Google score win by nabbing OpenAI-backed Harvey as a user

Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor

Improvements in ‘reasoning’ AI models may slow down soon, analysis finds

AllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routes

This American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusual

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers

Clay authorizes employee tender at a $1.5B valuation led by Sequoia

Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app

Breathe lands $21M Series B to predict battery performance

Ox Security lands a fresh $60M to scan for vulnerabilities in code

Agree.com raises $7.2M to take on Docusign, Bill.com with AI

Relevance AI raises $24M to help businesses build AI agents

Social Agent’s new app lets you book a photographer within 30 minutes

Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI

Ara Partners new $800M fund will decarbonize old industrial assets

Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device ... and more

AI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 months

Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device

Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M

Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely

Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups

Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere

Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps

From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off

RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries

Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla

Datadog acquires AI-powered observability startup Metaplane

Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup

British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries

Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93M

Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets

Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise

Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI

Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear

Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere

OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more

Deck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AI

Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands

Former Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solution

OpenAI says it may ‘adjust’ its safety requirements if a rival lab releases ‘high-risk’ AI

Marshmallow, the UK insurance startup for migrants, raises $90M at a $2B+ valuation

Fusion power has a fuel problem; Hexium has a laser-powered solution

Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table

Conifer locks down $20M seed round for its ‘drop-in’ electric hub motor

Why Nest co-founder Matt Rogers is still bullish on HVAC

Parallel Systems is building autonomous electric rail for short-distance freight

Drafted uses AI and video resumes to help early-career professionals land jobs

Nuro’s $106M raise backs its shift from delivery robots to licensing autonomy tech

Tessell snags $60M to drive data management at scale

Solve Intelligence raises fresh $12M to bring AI to IP, patent workflows

Sizl raises $3.5M to expand its cook-to-order food delivery service

XL Batteries is using petrochemical infrastructure to store solar and wind power

SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: ‘How can we get you back?’

SignalFire raises over $1B as LPs embrace data-driven investing

OpenAI just made its first cybersecurity investment

Thatch raises $40M to give employees more control of their health care choices

Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026

Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud

The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie

Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp

Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology

Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model

Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service

Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup purchase

Temporal lands $146 million at a flat valuation, eyes agentic AI expansion

Why HoneyBook’s $140M in ARR may finally justify its $2.4B ZIRP-era valuation

Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice retrieval agent for Qonto customers

Has GetReal cracked the code on AI deepfakes? $18M and an impressive client list says yes

OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns

Outreach founder Manny Medina has a new startup that helps AI agents get paid

Plural’s platform allows enterprises to manage their Kubernetes clusters in one place

Pruna AI open sources its AI model optimization framework

AI creation platform Arcade expands from jewelry to home goods

Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage

Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management

1X will test humanoid robots in ‘a few hundred’ homes in 2025

Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech

ClearGrid, armed with a fresh $10M, is developing AI to improve debt collection in MENA

Amid calls for sovereign EU tech stack, Evroc raises $55M to build a hyperscale cloud in Europe

Factorial snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost its HR sales and marketing

Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful

Rippling sues Deel, Deel denies ‘all legal wrongdoing’, and Slack is the main witness

Flexport accuses former employees of stealing its source code to create a rival startup

Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers

Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works

Bria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed data

Kerry Washington invests in wedding marketplace Cheersy

Omni raises $69M to design tools that help companies better analyze their data

Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation

How La Fourche, an online organic supermarket, is thriving after q-commerce’s busted flush

Scimplify raises $40M to help manufacturers access specialty chemicals

Startup studio Hexa acquires majority stake in Veevart, a vertical SaaS platform for museums

General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor

Radiology AI software provider Gleamer expands into MRI with two small acquisitions

Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently

Intangible AI, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M

CollX raises $10M to grow its card collection marketplace

Alpine Eagle secures funding from European backers for counter-drone tech amid rising threats

Turing raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation

Ahead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 million

From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste

Moonwatt secures $8.3M to dial up solar’s staying power with sodium-ion storage

Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, lands US Army contract, builds weapons factory

Flora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionals

Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security

Just Move In raises $8M Series A for its home setup service

Workhelix taps years of research to help enterprises figure out where to apply AI

Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model

Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery

Bridgetown Research raises $19M to speed up due diligence with AI

Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training

Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business

Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI

Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform

AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say

Arize AI hopes it has first-mover advantage in AI observability

Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas

Spore.Bio raises $23M to apply machine learning to microbiology testing

IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back

Hyperlume wants to make chip-to-chip communication faster and more efficient

Augury raises $73M on a $1B+ valuation for AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines

Level Zero Health banks $6.9M to prove wearable medtech can take the strain out of hormone testing

Legal tech startup Luminance, backed by the late Mike Lynch, raises $75M

Germany’s Helsing doubles down on drones for Ukraine, scales up manufacturing

Mistral releases regional model focused on Arabic language and culture

Tofu is building an omni-channel marketing platform for enterprises

Phase raises $13M to speed up the UX design process with its no-code platform

Apptronik, which makes humanoid robots, raises $350M as category heats up

Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City

No-code app builder Softr expands beyond Airtable databases

SpotDraft taps AI to help streamline contract management

Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests

Voyantis aims to help companies figure out their customers’ worth

Archer Aviation doubles down on defense aircraft with fresh $300M

3D mood board and marketplace Mattoboard picks up $2M to launch AI visual search

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed

PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development

Hiveclass, a platform for virtual PE classes for kids, raises $1.5M

Fizz brings on TikTok alum to help build out its marketplace and recommendation engine

Pendulum’s AI-driven platform helps enterprises better predict supply and demand

European AI startups have raised $8 billion in 2024

Neuralk-AI is developing AI models specifically designed for structured data

Archive raises $30M to solve fashion’s pollution problem and Sotira landed $2M to help brands offload and monetize their surplus inventory

Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale

AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?

Riot raises $30 million for its cybersecurity product suite focused on employees

Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention

Backed by Mayo Clinic, Nutrix’s hardware monitors worker stress

European embedded banking startup Swan adds another $44 million to its Series B

Data analytics startup Athenic AI wants to be an enterprise’s central nervous system

Naboo secures $21M for its concierge-style corporate event booking platform

This Bay Area startup is using AI to help families navigate long-term care planning

TravelPerk raises $200M as valuation nearly doubles to $2.7B

Alice&Bob raises $104M, says quantum computers based on cat qubits will be ready by 2030

Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy

Mistral’s origin story has an insuretech founder at its heart

Fundraise Up claims its AI can boost nonprofit donations

Allara lands $26M to expand women’s hormone telehealth

Some shareholders of a16z-backed Divvy Homes may not see a dime from $1B sale

Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuation

Sales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memes

Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform

US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation

At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel, plus Anthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for Claude and IMDb's founder steps down

Teal Health raises $10M to create at-home cervical cancer screenings

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol

Dub.co is an open-source URL shortener and link attribution engine packed into one

Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best

Hyperline secures $10 million for its automated billing platform

Nvidia backs MetAI, a Taiwanese startup that creates AI-powered digital twins

EV startup Harbinger’s obsession with simplicity fuels $100M Series B and eBay acquires Caramel

Nelly raises $51 million to digitalize medical practices across Europe; Float Financial lands US$48.5M Series B

AWS pledges to spend $5B in Mexico, launches new Mexico server region

Venture funding remains stable in France thanks to AI startups

Raspberry AI raises $24M from a16z to accelerate fashion design

Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure

Gumloop, founded in a bedroom in Vancouver, lets users automate tasks with drag-and-drop modules

Grand Games, the Turkish startup behind Magic Sort, drinks up $30M

Overhaul raises another $55M to help companies like Dyson and Microsoft fight supply chain theft

PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout

Xocean raises $119M to capture ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels

CES 2025: Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’

Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants

RoboForce raises $10 million to create a robot workforce

Bluesky bump from X exodus is slowing down, data shows

CES 2025: Soliddd Vision Glasses for those with macular degeneration and Elvie's Smart Bouncer

Hydrogen tax credit rules give startups clarity while boosting nuclear and carbon capture

Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen

2025 will be the year climate tech learns to love AI

After ups and down, food delivery startup Epicery closes shop

Calo raises $25 million to expand its ready-to-eat meal service beyond the Middle East

Backed by a16z and QED, Brazilian startup Carecode puts AI agents to work on healthcare

The trends that shaped EVs, robotaxis, and electric flight in 2024

AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?

After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed

British university spinoff Mindgard protects companies from AI threats

Access bets people will pay thousands of dollars a year for guaranteed restaurant reservations

Hauler Hero wants to bring waste management software into the 21st century

Sustainable Ocean Alliance marks 10 years with ocean-friendly startup label and a new batch of ‘ecopreneurs’

Slip Robotics snags $28M for its bots that can load a truck in five minutes

Grammarly acquires productivity startup Coda, brings on new CEO

Focused Energy buys two of the world’s most powerful lasers for its fusion quest

Prequel is building a community-driven approach to finding software bugs

Revisiting 19th-century Paris with VR

Flare raises $30M to thwart info-stealers like those used on Snowflake customers

As AI-fueled disinformation explodes, here comes the startup counterattack

Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders

Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

Upvest, a stock trading API used by N26, Revolut and others, raises $105 million

Albert Invent hopes to revolutionize the chemicals sector with its AI platform

Mynt raises a cool $23M on a $210M valuation to build a smarter expense card for SMEs

Software testing platform LambdaTest secures $38 million for AI push

Nexalus has a new method for liquid-cooling data centers that could make the waste heat useful

Riverside raises $30 million Series C to expand its podcast and video recording platform

Connyct, an exclusive social media app for college students, emerges amid potential TikTok ban

Fitness startup Ladder comes after Peloton for allegedly copying their app

Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate

After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data

Twos to-do app adds a feature that automatically adds a suggested action against a task

This ex-Scale AI leader built a platform to automatically extracts insights from customer feedback

Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform

Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot

Orakl Oncology combines data and biology to bring new drugs to cancer patients

Joco almost died at launch. Now, it’s a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable business

Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike

India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025

From pond scum to premium skincare?

Volta, a Shopify for B2B transactions, raises biggest pre-seed round of Italy

Scaling startups top priority, as EU reboots its top team

Biolevate’s raises €6M to helps medical writers keep up with the pace of new drugs

Cambridge materials science spin-out Molyon is on a mission to make next-gen batteries fly

Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board

Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner

Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, upending Europe’s industrial plan

Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS is ‘primary’ cloud partner

Lighthouse, an analytics provider for the hospitality sector, lights up with $370M at a $1B valuation

Raven Space Systems opens up a whole new category of industrial 3D printing

Ben Ling’s Bling Capital has already nabbed another $270M for fourth fund

Portugal’s Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine

Ex-Duolingo execs raise $13M for startup making it easier to access a college education

Selector automatically spots IT issues and recommends fixes

Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI

Moonvalley wants to build more ethical video models

Influur wants to standout from other influencer marketplaces by promising timely payout

Mission Space launches next quarter to provide real-time space weather forecasts

ePlane looks to ride the Indian government’s interest in air taxis with new $14M round

Atlas.co wants its web-based mapping tool to be the Figma of geospatial data

Just Eat Takeaway sells Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million

Swiggy market debut fuels India’s food, quick commerce wars

Bounce bags $19M to expand its traveler convenience network

SmartBank secures $26M for its personal finance management app

Equal has a plan to fight India’s growing cyber fraud problem

Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital

Yelp just spent $80M on a site for car repair estimates

Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down

Glint Solar grabs $8M to help accelerate solar energy adoption across Europe

Ulysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations

Nodal connects hopeful parents with surrogates as reproductive freedom hangs in limbo

Research Grid raises $6.4M to automate clinical trial admin

Alan unveils AI health assistant for its 680,000 health insurance members

Datadog challenger Dash0 aims to dash observability bill shock

CareYaya is enabling affordable home care by connecting healthcare students with elders

CoffeeSpace is a Hinge-like app that wants to help you find your co-founder

Former Caribou founder launches Further, a fintech that’s focused on helping people buy homes

Buddy.ai is using AI and gaming to help children learn English as a second language

Hummingbirds, a platform that connects local creators with brand campaigns in their area, raises $5.4M

MealMe, the startup integrating food ordering tech into apps, picks up $8M

Gecko Materials wants to sell you the next Velcro

Luna wants to help young girls navigate their health and well-being

Infraspeak raises $19.5M to bring collaboration to facilities management

Emidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating environmental reporting

Read AI raises $50M to integrate its bot with Slack, email, and more

Vinted hits $5.4B valuation amid wave of secondary share sales in Europe

General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally

Screenable’s app turns any iPhone into a starter phone for kids

Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash

Cash collection startup Upflow also wants to handle B2B payments

Interface.ai raises $30M to help banks field customer requests

Cement startup Furno lands $20M grant to build low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago

CrewAI uses third-party models to automate business tasks

Socket lands a fresh $40M to scan software for security flaws

Shobizzy, a networking app for the TV industry, aims to open new doors for freelancers

Uprise wants to help small businesses make better financial decisions

Byju’s founder says his edtech startup, once worth $22B, is now ‘worth zero’

With $11.9 million in funding, Dottxt tells AI models how to answer

How Paladin’s drones helped Asheville during Hurricane Helene

ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions

Storio is helping other businesses unlock more value from solar energy

Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups

Table Space eyes $2.5B valuation in India IPO

Peanut, a social network for women, adds a pregnancy tracking tool

This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves Béhar to bring humanoids home

MiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research

UK neobank Monzo hits $5.9B valuation with secondary market sale

Streamer Plex rolls out movie and TV show reviews

Health insurtech startup Qantev raises €30 million to outperform LLMs with small AI models

Zap Energy shows off its new fusion power prototype, Century

Alaska Airlines’ venture lab spins out its first startup: Odysee

Distributional raises $19M to automate AI model and app testing

Revyze, a ‘TikTok for education’ startup, draws on Duolingo to add bite-sized learning too

Ollie scoops up health startup to launch a tool that analyzes dog poop

SoCreate wants to transform screenwriting software with AI imagery and community sharing tools

AirOps is an all-in-one platform for generating and managing AI-based marketing content

Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less

Spill, the Black-owned Twitter alternative, scores investment from Kerry Washington

Pallet uses AI to bring logistics into the 21st century

Numa raises $32M to bring AI and automation to car dealerships

Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to back up cloud infrastructure

Beta Technologies unveils first passenger carrying electric aircraft

.Airship wants to build better sales tools for HVAC contractors

Podcasting startup Podeo gets $5.4M to go beyond the Arab world

HungryPanda, a food ordering app for the Asian diaspora, picks up $55M

Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC

Indian game streaming startup Loco sells majority stake to Redwood

Prepared, which wants to ‘revolutionize’ emergency 911 calls, raises $27M

Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises $45M Series B

WhatFix raises a whopping $125M for its in-app user guides

Radian Aerospace completes ground tests of prototype space plane

Fintech Mesa promises 1% cash back on mortgages, up to 3x on other home needs

Torq, which automates cybersecurity workflows, raises $70M in new capital

Jump raises $12M to help freelancers get benefits just like employees

David Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents

FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations

Health insurance startup Alan reaches $4.5B valuation with new $193M funding round

Tidal Metals sees seawater as the solution to a critical mineral shortage

Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting

Nurture wants to teach kids important life skills through interactive gameplay and entertainment

Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean they have cured blindness

Quick-commerce startup Flink raises another $150M at a valuation of nearly $1B

Greenlite, founded by an ex-Gopuff exec, automates construction permitting

AI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders

Life360’s Tile introduces its first new Bluetooth trackers since its acquisition

OffDeal wants to help small businesses find big exits with AI agents

Humanz brings its influencer marketing platform to the U.S.

Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers, mobility companies

Tune.FM wants to take on Spotify by using crypto to pay artists up to 100x more per stream

Paymob, started by three college friends, lands another $22 million and is profitable in Egypt

Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources

Qualifyze swallows $54M to improve pharmaceutical supply chains

Neurode wants to treat and track ADHD symptoms through a wearable headband

Sunamp’s thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips

The coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballers

All Hands AI raises $5M to build open source agents for developers

Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services

Reonic raises €13 million to help small installers of green tech like heat pumps and solar panels

As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation

Dutch clean energy investor SET Ventures lands new €200 million fund, which will go toward digital tech

You.com ‘refocuses’ from AI search to deeper productivity agents with new $50M round

‘Hospital at home’ startup Doccla raises $46 million for its European expansion

Laptop-leasing startup Fleet wants to become the IT companion for small companies

Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others

‘Emotion AI’ may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic

Atlassian acquires Rewatch as it gets into AI meeting bots

The guy who sued NAR over real estate fees has co-founded a startup

Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ tools and aims to integrate ‘a Community Notes-like’ feature in the future

Fluid Truck’s board ousted its sibling co-founders amid allegations of mismanaging funds

Planera raises $13.5M to help solve the gnarly problem of scheduling for construction contractors

Supio brings generative AI to personal injury cases

Food delivery is seeing more consolidation: GrubMarket snaps up FreshGoGo

Piramidal’s foundation model for brainwaves could supercharge EEGs

The founder building a wealth-management product her grandmother would have loved

Travly lets travelers submit videos for a chance to earn a 5% commission from hotel bookings

Tingit is building a marketplace for ‘zero-effort’ repairs, starting with fashion

Openmart wants to make it easier for enterprises to sell to local businesses

Dropbox acquires Index Ventures-backed AI scheduling tool Reclaim.ai

The Rounds scoops up $24M to bring its ‘household restocking’ delivery service to more markets

SleekFlow snaps up $7M to tap the conversational AI opportunity across Asia

Beyond Math’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars

Defcon AI closes $44M seed round to solve a problem of ‘maximum complexity’: Military logistics

Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products

Keychain aims to unlock a new approach to manufacturing consumer goods

Keychain aims to unlock a new approach to manufacturing consumer goods

AI social media vetting startup Ferretly secures $2.5M, launches election personnel screening tool

Stoke Space’s initial launch plans at Cape Canaveral take shape

CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews

Move over SEO, Profound is helping brands with AI search optimization

EliseAI lands $75M for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters

.ArborXR secures $12M to boost its management platform for AR and VR devices

PayZen secures $23M Series B, $200M debt facility to grow its “care now, pay later” product

Ex-Clubhouse employees take another swing at a social networking startup

Bandana lands new investment to help hourly wage workers find good jobs

Archer to set up air taxi network in LA by 2026 ahead of World Cup

Humidity sucks. Transaera has a new way to deal with it

Cocoon is transforming steel production runoff into a greener cement alternative

Anduril raises $1.5B at a $14B valuation

Fintech Payoneer is buying 5-year-old global payroll startup Skuad for $61M in cash

Database startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment

H3X scales up its electric aerospace ambitions with $20M in new funding

Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M

From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better

Trade My Spin is building a business around used Peloton equipment

Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups

Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation to sell up to $420M in shares ahead of commercial launch

Indian startups Ola Electric, FirstCry gut valuations ahead of IPOs

Sybill raises $11M for its AI assistant that helps salespeople reduce administrative burden

Date Like Goblins, a new dating platform, allows users to virtually date and play video games

Applied Carbon’s farm robot turns plant waste into biochar to capture CO2

Lime is piloting two new e-bikes to attract more women and older riders

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is gearing up for a comeback

Alphabet X spinoff Skip partners with Arc’teryx to bring  ‘everyday’ exoskeleton to market

Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy

Energy tech startup Greenely grabs €8M to reach more households and support Europe’s energy transition

Intron Health gets backing for its speech recognition tool that recognizes African accents

Kodiak Robotics is taking self-driving trucks off road to reach profitability faster

Micropep taps tiny proteins to make pesticides safer

QA Wolf secures $36M to grow its app QA-testing suite

Linx emerges from stealth with $33M to lock down the new security perimeter: Identity

Farmblox puts the control into farmers’ hands with its AI-powered sensor-reading platform

Without this company’s technology, future fusion power plants might never light up

Unpacking how Alphabet’s rumored Wiz acquisition could affect VC

PE firm PartnerOne paid $28M for HeadSpin, a fraction of its $1.1B valuation set by ICONIQ and Dell Technologies Capital

Fintech startup Coast lands $40M just 4 months after its last $25M raise

WHAM! Nuclear fusion experiment hits new record for magnet strength

Deel acquires Hofy to build its own IT device management service

A company building Wordle for chess raises money from a16z Speedrun, Mark Pincus and Eric Wu

Kandji raises another $100M for Apple device management as valuation rises to $850M

Astor’s ‘community’ approach to financial advice aims to help women feel more confident about investing

Toddle wants to ‘change how we build software’ with a collaborative visual web app builder

Adaptive builds automation tools to speed up construction payments

How VanMoof’s new owners plan to win over its old customers

Why Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ superconducting magnet sale is more than it seems

A startup set out to fight climate change — it did it by helping plumbers

Beeble AI raises $4.75M to launch a virtual production platform for indie filmmakers

Joby Aviation is betting on hydrogen-electric aircraft for regional flight

Iceland is dodging the VC doldrums as Frumtak Ventures lands $87 million for its fourth fund

Deep tech startups with very technical CEOs raise larger rounds, research finds

Nala to use $40M Series A to build B2B payments platform, scale remittance services

Byway is using AI to help travelers slow down and take the scenic route

Investors chase wealthtech startups in India as affluent class grows

Quantum Rise grabs $15M seed for its AI-driven ‘Consulting 2.0’ startup

Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept

Husband-and-wife former Olympians target $50M for new fund to invest in influencer-led consumer brands

News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping

CoinDCX acquires BitOasis in international expansion push

Indian edtech Unacademy cuts another 250 jobs

Altrove uses AI models and lab automation to create new materials

As the AI boom gobbles up power, Phaidra is helping companies manage datacenter power more efficiently

Sensorita uses digital twins to help waste management companies streamline construction waste

Illumex is using GenAI to ease pain of getting good data into LLMs

Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt

Rondo Energy funding shows a new way across the climate startup ‘valley of death’

Austin-based Ironspring Ventures raised $100m to invest in industrial revolution

Sensi.AI grabs $31M Series B from Insight, Zeev to monitor seniors 24/7

Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model

Rainforest lands $20M to challenge Stripe with embedded payments for SaaS providers

Boeing’s Wisk Aero buys Verocel to boost software safety for self-flying eVTOL

Rocketlane snags $24M to bring AI-led experiences for professional services teams

Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code

Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong

How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees

Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia

Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation

Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras

Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce

Seen is a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content

Bitsening raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving

Kilimo helps farmers save water and get paid for it

EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy

Loop Golf looks to take the stress out of booking a tee time

What StepStone’s $3.3B venture secondaries fund tells us about LPs’ current appetite for venture

GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A

Friends & Family Capital, a fund founded by ex-Palantir CFO and son of IVP’s founder, unveils third $118M fund

AccountsIQ takes in $65M to boost its bookkeeping tools with AI

Let there be Light! Danish startup exits stealth with $13M seed funding to bring AI to general ledgers

Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market

Kelvin wants to help save the planet by applying AI to home energy audits

Raspberry Pi is now a public company as its shares pop after IPO pricing

Anterior grabs $20M from NEA to expedite health insurance approvals with AI

Autonomy’s Mike Lynch acquitted after US fraud trial brought by HP

Novel battery manufacturer EnerVenue is raising $515M, per filing

Carta’s valuation to be cut by billions in an upcoming secondary sale

Eyebot raised $6M for AI-powered kiosks that provide 90-second eye exams without optometrist

Whizz wants to own the delivery e-bike subscription space, starting with NYC

Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A

Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart disease earlier and more accurately

‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen

Raspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit

Iyris makes fresh produce easier to grow in difficult climates, raises $16M

Ashby injects recruiting with a dose of AI

Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances

YoLa Fresh, a GrubMarket for Morocco, digs up $7M to connect farmers with food sellers

OneScreen.ai brings startup ads to billboards and NYC’s subway

Exactly.ai secures $4M to help artists use AI to scale up their output

Tech startup Odyssey goes on journey to help states implement school choice programs

Kinnect’s new app aims to help families record and store generational memories

Ledger starts shipping its high-end hardware crypto wallet

Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales

Doly lets you generate 3D product videos from your iPhone

Indian EV startup Zypp Electric secures ENEOS backing to fund expansion to Southeast Asia

Auggie’s new app helps parents find community and shop

Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops

Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures

Unify helps developers find the best LLM for the job

Hydrolix seeks to make storing log data faster and cheaper

Patronus AI is off to a magical start as LLM governance tool gains traction

Rollup wants to be the hardware engineer’s workhorse

Zen Educate raises $37M and acquires Aquinas Education as it tries to address the teacher shortage

CyberArk snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to ramp up in machine-to-machine security

Agora raises $34B Series B to keep building the Carta for real estate

Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation

Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines

Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing Quickbooks