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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