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Helix Carbon Says It Can Make Cheaper Iron From Furnace Pollution
Helix Carbon claims its process turns blast furnace emissions into cheaper iron, but the startup has not shared numbers to prove it.
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Cambridge Heavy Industries Confirms a Tabletop Fusion Project
The fusion startup confirms it is building a small, laser-powered device for future power plants, but has disclosed no specs, funding, or timeline.
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Rivian's Robotics Spinoff Hires Ford's Former EV Chief
Mind Robotics, the robotics startup born out of Rivian, has hired Doug Field, the engineer behind the Tesla Model 3 and Ford's EV push.
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Flox Intelligence builds AI to scare wildlife off infrastructure
The startup makes edge devices that spot animals and play species-specific sounds to steer them away from trains, airports, and roads.
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Longshot Wants to Launch Space Data Centers With a Giant Gun
Ahead of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, startup Longshot is pitching a giant cannon that fires cargo into orbit instead of using rockets.
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Startup red-teams robots and self-driving cars before launch
A University of Michigan spinout uses AI agents and simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving cars before they reach real roads and warehouses.
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Nvidia to pour another $2 billion into European AI startups
Jensen Huang says $2 billion more is coming within a week, adding to $8 billion in European AI bets as Nvidia's global equity spree tops $40 billion this year.
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YC Startup Consus Sells Compliant AI Access to Defense Firms
Consus gives aerospace and defense teams one compliant gateway to frontier AI models without choosing a single GovCloud.
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Bumble Agrees to $1.3B Buyout as Dating Apps Hit a Wall
The $1.3 billion deal caps years of subscriber and revenue declines, and signals a broader reckoning for an industry built on swipe fatigue.
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Character.AI files for bankruptcy, sells assets to Disney
The roleplay chatbot pioneer, battered by safety lawsuits, is selling assets to Disney through bankruptcy as the AI boom claims an early casualty.
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WindBorne Wins Nearly $50M Air Force Weather Deal
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to forecast weather has won a US Air Force contract worth close to $50 million.
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DeepSeek to Lead $400M Seed Round for Robotics AI Startup
DeepSeek is leading a seed round that values robot-AI startup Winverse at about $400 million, with Meituan's Long-Z also investing, per Bloomberg.
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Typesafe AI Valued At $7.5 Billion After $870M Raise
Typesafe AI's blog post reveals a massive valuation jump but stays quiet on investors, strategy, or what the money is for.
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Automattic's interim CFO exits weeks into the job
Jeremy Klaperman was demoted back to his old role before leaving, the latest departure in a company still working through boardroom turmoil.
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Oxide Computer Raises 445 Million in Series D
A $445 million Series D bets that enterprises still want cloud-style servers they can actually touch, not just rent from a hyperscaler.
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Former Stratton Oakmont Partner Builds AI Tool for Ex-Cons
Richard Bronson, once jailed for securities fraud, now runs an AI startup helping people leaving prison find jobs, housing and community.
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Pentagon Offers PsiQuantum Up to $150M in Conditional Loan
The Pentagon pledged up to $150 million to PsiQuantum, its second conditional loan in two days as it bankrolls strategic tech directly.
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Waymo Takes Out Its First Loan to Fund Robotaxi Growth
Waymo borrowed $5 billion from Blackstone and PIMCO, marking the Alphabet unit's first use of debt financing to pay for its robotaxi expansion.
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Manus Raises Over 500 Million in First Round Since Meta Split
The AI agent startup pulled in a nine-figure round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent and other existing backers returning.
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Mecka AI Raises $60M So Humans Can Train Robots
Sequoia-backed Mecka AI pays everyday people to record themselves doing chores, building the motion datasets humanoid robots need to learn basic tasks.
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Nous Research Lands $90M, Pushes Hermes Agent for Business
A $90 million Series B pushed Nous Research to a $1.5 billion valuation as it debuts AI agents for business customers.
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HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs, Calls It an AI Pivot
HubSpot is cutting 7% of its staff under an AI strategy rebrand while its own SEC filing shows the layoffs hinge on Irish labor law, not AI efficiency gains.
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Healthleap Raises $38M to Flag At-Risk Hospital Patients
The startup landed $8M in seed funding and a $30M Series A to expand software that alerts hospital staff to patients whose condition may be worsening.
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SpaceX Alumni Raise 100 Million for Autonomous Freight Trains
Parallel Systems, started by SpaceX veterans, raised $100 million to scale autonomous electric rail cars that haul freight up to 500 miles.
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Bloom raises $3.6M to expand beyond mobility manufacturing
The Detroit startup's $3.6 million raise expands its manufacturer-matching platform from mobility into drones and robotics.
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Startup Atoco Turns Data Center Heat Into Drinking Water
Atoco's water-harvesting machines run on waste heat from data centers instead of electricity, squeezing drinking water out of dry air.
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Lambda Raises $4B Ahead of 2027 IPO Push
The Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation as it builds a financial track record for a planned 2027 listing.
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Benchmark Puts $25M Into Cheap Missile Interceptor Startup
Benchmark's first pure defense bet shows cheap missile interceptors are becoming a venture category, not just a defense-prime specialty.
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Anthropic Gives Startups a Free Year of Claude Team Access
Anthropic will give startups a free year of its Team plan and $1,000 in API credits, betting developers spread AI's benefits more than models alone.
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Spiko Banks $90M Series B for Its Tokenized Cash Funds
NEA led the $90 million round, taking total funding for the Paris and London startup's tokenized cash funds to $120 million.
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Bridge Neurotech Launches to Challenge Altman's Merge Labs
A new startup called Bridge Neurotech wants to build a wearable, ultrasound-based brain interface to compete with Sam Altman's Merge Labs.
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Minerva Humanoids Raises $10M for Bomb Disposal Robots
Minerva Humanoids landed $10M in pre-seed funding, co-led by General Catalyst, Long Journey Ventures, and Credo Ventures, to build robots for hazardous work.
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Uber Puts $2.3 Billion Into Catering for Uber Eats
The $2.3 billion catering buy is the latest in a run of acquisitions Uber is using to turn Eats into a full-scale food delivery giant.
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Zapata Skips Its Own Hardware, Taps IBM's Quantum Machines
Zapata Quantum has joined IBM's Quantum Network to build client software on IBM's hardware instead of its own.
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Flai's car dealership AI raises $27M after 20x revenue growth
The auto-dealership AI startup's Series A funding follows a year of explosive revenue growth, as its booking software books 50,000 appointments monthly.
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Type One Energy Lands $200M for a 2034 Fusion Plant
A $200 million raise is betting that a simpler fusion reactor design can beat the industry's more complex approaches to a working power plant.
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Etched Gets 40 Billion Valuation Offers Months After Last Raise
Investors are offering AI chip startup Etched more than double its valuation from just two months ago, a sign of how frothy the AI chip market has become.
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Kodiak's Driverless Semis Hit Highways, Starting With Ikea
Kodiak plans to put fully driverless trucks on highways this year, with Ikea freight as the first real-world test of its sensor and software stack.
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19-Year-Old Raises $11 Million for Ghost's $3,499 AI Computer
A 19-year-old founder secured $11 million from Andreessen Horowitz to build a $3,499 desktop computer for running personal AI locally.
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German robotics startup RobCo hits $1 billion valuation
RobCo becomes one of Europe's few robotics unicorns, but the source report skips the funding details that would explain the number.
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California Hits Robot Fighting Startup REK With Cease and Desist
California's athletic commission ordered robotics startup REK to stop staging unlicensed human-vs-robot cage fights, calling them a misdemeanor risk.
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Grindr Buys HIV Prevention Startup Freddie for $250 Million
Grindr's first major acquisition folds a PrEP telehealth provider into its app, alongside a 26 million pound settlement over an HIV status lawsuit.
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Mandia's AI Security Startup Armadin Lands $255M at $2.5B
Kevin Mandia, who built Mandiant into a cybersecurity powerhouse, is betting on AI agent swarms to find and fix enterprise vulnerabilities at scale.
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Kanu AI raises $11.7M for workflow software that stays in-house
Seattle's Kanu AI left stealth with $11.7M to sell workflow software that lives in customers' own cloud instead of its own servers.
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Restate Raises $20M Series A for AI Agent Reliability Tools
Berlin's Restate, founded by Apache Flink's creators, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular to keep AI agents running through failures.
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Metaview Raises $60M to Expand AI Hiring Agents
The recruiting startup's Series C bets that companies will trust AI agents to run more of the hiring funnel, not just transcribe interviews.
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Photon Lands $4.5M Bet That Agents Will Replace Mobile Apps
The startup, known for staging a mock funeral for apps, raised $4.5 million to build AI agents for iMessage, SMS, and email instead of apps.
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GMI Cloud Raises $668M to Expand Nvidia GPU Rental Business
GMI Cloud lands $223M in equity and a $445M credit line as the Nvidia-backed GPU landlord says contracted revenue has passed $600M.
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Factory AI Accuses Former Adviser of Spying for Rival Cognition
Factory AI's CEO says a former VC board adviser secretly jumped to rival Cognition as chief revenue officer.
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EliseAI Doubles Valuation to $4B With $350M Raise
The a16z-backed property management AI startup raised $350 million in a year that saw its valuation double to $4 billion.
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OpenAI in Talks to Raise $30B at $1.4T Valuation
TechCrunch reports the AI giant is negotiating a $30 billion raise that would value it at $1.4 trillion, likely its last before a 2027 IPO.
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Ex-Tesla Engineers Raise 12.5M for AI Supply Chain Startup
Atomic, founded by former Tesla staff, raised 12.5M dollars for agentic supply chain software already in use at DoorDash and HelloFresh.
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An AI Agent That Phones Restaurants Raises $1B
Instinct raised $1B at a $10B valuation for an AI agent that books trips, orders groceries, and calls businesses on its own phone.
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HiringCafe raises $6.8M pre-seed to automate the job hunt
HiringCafe's pre-seed round backs an AI agent that works for job seekers instead of employers, aiming to cut through ghost listings and bot applications.
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SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C, Hits $1.45B Valuation
Fidelity and Amplify led a $150 million round for the physical AI chipmaker, a bet that edge-inference silicon still has room for new entrants.
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Outmarket Raises $34.5M in Second Round This Year
Outmarket has raised $34.5 million just months after an earlier round of undisclosed size, doubling down on AI that automates insurance paperwork.
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Nscale Raises $3.36B Convertible Debt Ahead of US IPO
Nvidia and Third Point are among investors in Nscale's $3.36 billion convertible raise, fueling its AI data center buildout ahead of a US IPO.
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Nscale Closes $3.36B Pre-IPO Round Ahead of NYSE Listing
London AI infrastructure firm Nscale raised $3.36 billion from Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel and Abu Dhabi's investment arm ahead of a planned NYSE listing.
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Meadow bets people want less phone, not no phone
The startup's founder says users aren't quitting technology, they're quitting social media and browsing while keeping the tools they actually need.
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Tesla Demos Its Long-Delayed Semi Truck for Fleet Managers
Nearly a decade after it was announced, Tesla showed the Semi to fleet managers in Nevada, a demo event rather than a confirmed rollout to buyers.
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Lightspeed Targets 250M for New India Fund Focused on AI
Lightspeed is raising $250M for a new India fund focused on early-stage AI, its first cycle aligned with global funds and a shorter investment period.
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Nexterity's Pelican-Case Robot Tackles Pipefitting's Danger Zone
Nexterity's bolt-turning robot, small enough for a Pelican case, aims to pull humans out of pipefitting's riskiest moments.
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Feather Pitches a $30,000 Robotics Platform for Developers
Feather is pitching a $30,000 customizable robotics platform for developers as the 'Android of robotics,' without yet revealing a ship date or specs.
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Precision Neuroscience Lands $250M, Hits $1B Valuation
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square led a $250 million round that values the brain implant startup at just over $1 billion.
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Databricks Buys Spreadsheet Startup Row Zero, Eyes More Deals
Databricks adds cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero to its 2026 acquisition spree, a bet on winning over everyday spreadsheet users, not just data engineers.
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Ando Raises $20M to Build Slack Rival for Humans and AI Agents
The pre-seed and seed startup wants to build a workplace chat app where AI agents are first-class teammates, not bolted-on bots.
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Zoox Grounds Atlanta Robotaxi Fleet Over Toxic Gas Complaints
Amazon's self-driving unit pulled its Atlanta test vehicles after employees reported symptoms consistent with toxic gas exposure and filed an OSHA complaint.
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Heidi doubles valuation to $900M in $340M raise
The Melbourne AI scribe startup's $340M round doubles its valuation to $900M, though only $100M of the raise has a named lead investor.
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Snorkel AI valuation triples to $3.5B in $350M raise
The seven-year-old data-labeling startup's $350 million Series E signals investors still see gold in training data for AI models.
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Cyera Raises Another $400M To Watch What AI Agents Do
Goldman Sachs Alternatives added $400 million to Cyera's Series G, bringing its 2026 total to $1.4 billion as it sells trust for AI agents.
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a16z Launches a School to Bet on Teens Over College
A hybrid of trade school, Y Combinator, and the Thiel Fellowship, the new academy bets on talented teens before college rather than college dropouts.
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Breakthrough Energy Picks 21 Startups to Bet On
Bill Gates's climate investment fund thinks electrification, not just AI data centers, will define the next decade of energy demand.
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Starcloud Plans to Mine Bitcoin From Space This Year
Nvidia-backed Starcloud plans to mine Bitcoin from orbit this year, saying ASICs are 30 times cheaper to power in space than GPUs.
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Nscale IPO Puts Wall Street's AI Concentration Risk to the Test
The British AI data center firm is going public leaning almost entirely on Microsoft and Anthropic for revenue, a bet markets have punished before.
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Morphotonics raises €40M to push display tech into data centers
Morphotonics landed 40 million euros from investors including 3M Ventures and Invest-NL to move its display manufacturing tech into data centers.
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Samsung Group Puts Up to $100M Into Kairos Power Reactor
Samsung C&T is funding Kairos Power's first 50 megawatt nuclear plant, which appears built with future customer Google's data center needs in mind.
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OpenAI Tells Investors It Will Burn $278 Billion Through 2030
A leaked investor presentation shows OpenAI expects to spend $278 billion more than it earns by 2030, even as revenue grows tenfold.
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Automattic's Board Pushes Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence
Matt Mullenweg says his own board pushed him into a leave of absence he did not want, per a Slack message to Automattic staff.
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XDOF In Talks For Funding At 1.2B Dollar Valuation
Just three months after leaving stealth, the robot data startup is reportedly negotiating a Series B that would value it at $1.2 billion.
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Nscale Seeks $3.5B Pre-IPO Round From Nvidia, Third Point
Nscale is raising up to $3.5 billion ahead of a US listing, leaning on a $45 billion Anthropic contract that Microsoft and Google both passed on.
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Anthropic Set to Pitch Investors a $30 Trillion Opportunity
Anthropic is expected to tell IPO investors its addressable market tops $30 trillion, edging out the $28.5 trillion pitch SpaceX made before its own listing.
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Hugging Face Reportedly Fielding Offers At $13B Valuation
Reported talks would value the AI model hub at $13 billion, but the founders' loyalty to open-source users leaves the deal in doubt.
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Anthropic to List Public Backlash as an IPO Risk Factor
Sources say Anthropic's IPO filing will list public backlash against AI as an official risk factor, a candid admission for an industry built on hype.
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Anthropic Weighs $100 Billion IPO as Soon as October
Anthropic is reportedly plotting a $100 billion stock listing that would dwarf SpaceX's famous funding haul, though nobody's picked a valuation yet.
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Anthropic Wants a $75 Billion IPO to Match SpaceX's Record
The AI lab could file for the biggest stock debut ever this month, even as its 2025 losses ballooned to nearly $42 billion.
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AI chip startup Fractile eyes $6.5bn valuation after Anthropic deal
Fractile's valuation jumped sixfold in three months after the British startup signed a chip supply deal with Anthropic, Bloomberg reports.
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Relativity Networks Raises $22M for Hollow-Core Fiber Bet
Relativity Networks raised $22 million to commercialize hollow-core fiber, which it says moves data 30% faster than standard fiber.
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Databricks Valuation Jumps to $190B in Six Months
The AI infrastructure company added $5 billion at a 42% valuation bump, even as its CEO says this is a bad year to go public.
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Ex-Anduril founders raise $30M for European defense AI simulator
A London startup founded by former Anduril employees has raised $30 million to build simulated environments where autonomous weapons learn to fight.
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Commonwealth Fusion Raises Another $1 Billion
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised $1 billion as it pushes toward building its first commercial fusion power plant.
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Fireworks Raises $1.5bn to Sell the Build-Your-Own AI Pitch
Fireworks AI closed a $1.5bn Series D at a $17.5bn valuation, betting enterprises will build their own models rather than rent from OpenAI or Anthropic.
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Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for a Stealth AI Coder
The investor-turned-CEO hasn't named the company or disclosed what it builds, but someone cut a nine-figure check anyway.
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Momenta Opens $752M Hong Kong IPO at $9B Valuation
The GM-backed self-driving software firm is seeking up to $752 million on the Hong Kong exchange to fund AI research and robotaxi expansion.
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SpaceX Plans a Starlink Mobile Network to Rival Verizon and AT&T
SpaceX told investors it plans to launch a retail Starlink mobile service in the US, putting it in direct competition with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
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OpenAI in No Rush to Go Public
OpenAI is leaning toward pushing its IPO past 2026, a signal that the company sees little urgency despite its towering valuation.
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General Intuition Raises $320M to Train AI on Gameplay Data
The startup is betting that millions of hours of action game footage can teach AI agents the kind of situational judgment that lab benchmarks can't.
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Airwallex Raises $320M, Bets on AI Agents Handling Your Money
The payments firm's Series H values it at $11bn, up from $8bn six months ago, as it pivots toward so-called autonomous finance.
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Alan Raises €480M at €5.5bn to Push AI-Driven Health Insurance
The Paris insurtech secured a €480M round led by Prosus just months after its last raise, betting AI prevention tools can upend how health insurance works.
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SpaceX Stock Drops Five Days Straight, Musk Loses Trillionaire Status
After peaking at $225 a share following its record IPO, SpaceX has shed enough value to push Musk's net worth below $1 trillion.
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RunPod Raises $100M at $1B Valuation Amid AI Compute Crunch
The GPU cloud startup hit unicorn status after a tenfold valuation jump in under two years, turning down buyout offers above $500M along the way.
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Riviera Partners Buys AI Recruiting Firm Lateral Labs
The Insight Partners-backed executive search firm absorbs Lateral Labs and its roster of AI-native clients including Cursor, ElevenLabs, and Runway.
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Agility Robotics Eyes Public Markets in $2.5B SPAC Deal
The humanoid robotics startup spun out of Oregon State is going public via SPAC, targeting $620 million in proceeds.
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Hadrian Automation Reportedly Seeks $1B at $7.5B Valuation
A Bloomberg report puts the defense-factory startup in talks for a $1B raise — which Hadrian says is inaccurate — as physical-AI money keeps piling up.
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Slate's Electric Truck Starts at $24,950
Slate has announced a $24,950 starting price for its electric pickup, but specs like range and payload are nowhere on the site.
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Dutch Firm Bets $5.8B That Boring Software Still Wins
Main Capital closed a €5.25bn fund — the Netherlands' largest ever — on the thesis that unglamorous enterprise software outlasts AI hype.
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Menlo Ventures Raises $3bn Off a Single Anthropic Bet
The 50-year-old VC firm's record fundraise is built almost entirely on the back of its Anthropic position, now worth around $14bn.
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Bezos-Backed Slate Auto Prices Its Bare-Bones EV Truck at $24,950
Slate Auto revealed full pricing for its debut electric truck and SUV variant, with the base truck undercutting most rivals at $24,950.
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Registering a Company in Germany Took 152 Days and €9,600
One developer's documented account of registering a business in Germany: €9,600 spent, 152 days elapsed, and still no invoices sent.
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Stark Defence Hits €3.5B Valuation After €500M Raise
The Berlin strike-drone startup, founded just two years ago, tripled its valuation in months with backing from Sequoia and Founders Fund.
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Plaud Hits $100M ARR With 2M AI Notetakers Shipped
Plaud turned 2 million physical AI recorders into a $100M ARR software business, in one of tech's most crowded categories.
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Respond.io Raises $62.5M to Push AI Messaging Into Western Markets
The Malaysian startup charges per conversation, not per seat, and wants to buy its way into North America and Europe.
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SpaceX's S-1 Is Half Rocket Company, Half AI Pitch Deck
The filing targets a $1.75 trillion valuation, absorbs xAI into the story, and claims a larger AI market than SpaceX has ever touched.
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Pleo Unveiled AI Agents for Finance, Then Cut 50 Engineers Next Day
The Danish fintech announced agentic AI for finance teams on June 11; the next day it cut around 50 engineers and data workers.
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Equal AI Raises $30M to Answer India's Spam Call Problem
The Indian startup's AI call-screening service targets a country where 20 unsolicited calls a week is unremarkable.
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Quantum Space Pursues $1.2B SPAC to Build Military Spacecraft
The startup is betting that defense demand can resuscitate a deal structure that mostly imploded after its 2021 peak.
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Coram AI Raises $35M to Turn Security Cameras Into Investigators
The San Francisco startup wants to layer AI onto cameras organizations already own, skipping the costly hardware rip-and-replace that usually comes with physical security upgrades.
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India's Starlink Reversal Complicates SpaceX's IPO
The Indian government's abrupt change of heart on Starlink arrives just as SpaceX needs a clean growth story for public investors.
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Cambridge Aerospace Eyes $300M at $3.5bn, Up Ninefold in a Year
The drone-intercept startup's valuation has multiplied almost nine times in twelve months, reflecting Europe's defence-tech spending surge.
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Nourished Pulls £14M From a Brewer, a Beverage Giant, and a Hospital
Rem3dy Health raised £14M at an £84M valuation — but the investor list reads more like a distribution network than a cap table.
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Donut Lab's Solid-State Battery Claim Falls Apart
Third-party tests say Donut Lab's battery uses conventional lithium-ion chemistry, not the solid-state tech its $1.25B valuation is built on.
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Spin Co-Founder Raises $5M to Build Data Centers in Space
Euwyn Poon, who helped scale Spin's e-scooter fleet to 250,000 units, is betting his next act is orbital compute.
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Intuned Turns Browser Automation Into Self-Healing Code
The YC-backed startup uses an AI agent to write and auto-repair browser scrapers, targeting the maintenance problem that makes most RPA projects brittle.
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Moonshot AI's Valuation Jumped 7x in Six Months
The Kimi chatbot maker is raising up to $2 billion at a $30 billion target, six months after investors priced it at $4 billion.
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Lovable goes 5x on Google Cloud, gets more Claude access
The AI app builder signed a multiyear Google Cloud agreement that will quintuple its infrastructure footprint and deepen its access to Anthropic's models.
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Partiful Adds In-App Ticketing in Its First Monetization Play
The social event app is letting hosts sell tickets directly in the platform, its first step toward actually making money.
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The European startups insiders are watching beyond Lovable and Mistral
A new list highlights European startups that aren't getting the same attention as the two biggest names, but insiders say they're worth tracking.
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This startup says sound waves can stop kitchen fires
A new acoustic fire suppression system hits the market, but firefighters and engineers aren't convinced it can replace sprinklers.
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Replit CEO would 'rather not sell' amid Cursor acquisition buzz
Amjad Masad says Replit isn't for sale, but left the door open as AI coding tools spark a consolidation wave.
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Musely raises $360M debt to fuel customer acquisition
The DTC beauty brand takes on non-dilutive capital instead of equity, betting it can afford the debt load.
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Subscription billing startup Skio fetches $105M in sale to Recharge
The Y Combinator-backed company raised just $8M over its lifetime but commanded a 13x multiple in its exit to a competitor.
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Anthropic targets $900B valuation in lightning-fast fundraise
The AI startup is giving investors 48 hours to commit to what would be the largest private market round in tech history.
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Legora Reaches $5.6B as Legal AI Rivalry Heats Up
The legal AI space just got more crowded as Legora's valuation soars and its rivalry with Harvey intensifies.