Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. 

Flip through any auto parts catalog from the 1970s or 80s and the message becomes clear within seconds: this was an industry that believed a woman in a bikini could sell anything from spark plugs to seat covers. Long before marketing departments worried about backlash or boycotts, automotive advertisers operated on a simple, unapologetic formula […]

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.

The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.

Clair Health will track inflammation and bloating markers, energy levels, and cycle phase classification to give insights into cycle irregularities and perimenopause, as well as hormonal fluctuations, and how to navigate those changes.

Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.

Our ongoing list of current private space companies with a valuation of $1 billion or more.

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African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

Farting may be one of the most common human activities, but it is also one of the least discussed. People often joke about it, apologize for it, or feel embarrassed when it happens unexpectedly. Yet passing gas is a completely natural process that plays an important role in keeping the digestive system functioning properly. When […]

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Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.

Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."

The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.

SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

A Los Angeles-based startup has raised $5 million to fund an in-orbit computing demonstration next year, ahead of plans to deploy more than 100,000 orbital data centers to meet surging demand for AI infrastructure.

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