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crunchbase.com - Joanna Glasner - Google Is A $4T Company That's Still In The Startup Game
Google Is A $4T Company That's Still In The Startup Game
Crunchbase

If Google had a theme song, radio playlist favorite “ Unstoppable ” might be an appropriate choice. The company recently topped the $4 trillion market cap level — making it one of only two currently in that category. It's…

bloomberg.com - Carmen Arroyo - SpaceX Merger Provides Lifeline for Musk's Debt-Ridden AI Startup
SpaceX Merger Provides Lifeline for Musk's Debt-Ridden AI Startup
Bloomberg

By many counts, SpaceX is the most successful venture Elon Musk ever started. The rocket maker revolutionized the space industry, built a multibillion-dollar business fueled by lucrative government contracts and a growing satellite communications…

bloomberg.com - Thomas Black - Musk's AI Startup Is a Payload SpaceX Can't Afford
Musk's AI Startup Is a Payload SpaceX Can't Afford
Bloomberg

SpaceX has a big head start on the technology of reusable rockets, which drastically lowered launch costs and helped spawn a commercial space industry that is gaining momentum year by year. As SpaceX prepares for its huge Starship rocket to enter…

nbcnews.com - The architect of Amazon's supply chain on running a startup with your spouse
The architect of Amazon's supply chain on running a startup with your spouse
NBC News

For at least two decades, former Amazon executive Dave Clark ended his work week the same way: a standing Friday date night with his wife, Leigh Anne. Over dinner, the Clarks would talk through the “peak and pit” of their weeks. The…

bloomberg.com - Coco Liu - Ex-Tesla Energy Chief Raises $230 Million for Battery Startup
Ex-Tesla Energy Chief Raises $230 Million for Battery Startup
Bloomberg

Tesla Inc.'s former energy chief has secured more than $230 million to expand his battery startup into new markets. It's the latest sign that the multibillion-dollar US home energy storage market is heating up as strain on the grid increases.

fastcompany.com - Kristin Toussaint - Your skincare products are full of fats and oils. This startup launched a clean beauty line with ancient chemistry
Your skincare products are full of fats and oils. This startup launched a clean beauty line with ancient chemistry
Fast Company

Your beauty and skincare products are full of fats and oils. They're what makes that cream so moisturizing or that emollient so good at repairing your skin barrier. Often, those lipids come from palm oil or even animal fats, both of which are…

mercurynews.com - pperron@bayareanewsgroup.com - Ex-Tesla energy chief raises $230 million for Silicon Valley battery startup
Ex-Tesla energy chief raises $230 million for Silicon Valley battery startup
The Mercury News

Lunar Energy is attempting to simplify the transition to full home electrification. (Lunar Energy) Tesla Inc.'s former energy chief has secured more than $230 million to expand his battery startup into new markets. It's the latest sign that the…

denverpost.com - Max Scheinblum - Boulder-based mushroom meat startup evicted from plant; assets seized over taxes
Boulder-based mushroom meat startup evicted from plant; assets seized over taxes
The Denver Post

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mushroom meat alternative Meati, which got a new owner in October, has been evicted from its manufacturing facility in Thornton and had equipment and assets seized over unpaid taxes. Notices on the door of…

newswire.ca - TELUS Communications Inc. - TELUS opens Canada's first fully sovereign AI Factory to startups and small businesses through L-SPARK collaboration
TELUS opens Canada's first fully sovereign AI Factory to startups and small businesses through L-SPARK collaboration
CNW

Strategic partnership will democratize access to sovereign AI compute, enabling Canadian startups to scale domestically while competing globally OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 4, 2026 /CNW/ - TELUS and L-SPARK today announced a new partnership to provide…

fortune.com - Leo Schwartz - Crypto crime-fighting startup TRM Labs notches $1 billion valuation with new $70 million funding round
Crypto crime-fighting startup TRM Labs notches $1 billion valuation with new $70 million funding round
Fortune

When TRM Labs cofounders Esteban Castaño and Rahul Raina moved to San Francisco in 2018 to create a startup, their mentors told them that great companies are built when you believe something about the world that others don't. Along with a…

sfchronicle.com - G. Allen Johnson - Microdramas are Gen Z's soap operas. A Bay Area streaming startup is betting on them
Microdramas are Gen Z's soap operas. A Bay Area streaming startup is betting on them
San Francisco Chronicle

College interns arrive at a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup ready to become masters of the universe in “Return Offer.” “I would have killed for this opportunity,” one character says. “You guys are…

fortune.com - Jeremy Kahn - Former Cohere execs Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy secure $50 million seed round for their new startup Adaption Labs
Former Cohere execs Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy secure $50 million seed round for their new startup Adaption Labs
Fortune

Sara Hooker, an AI researcher and advocate for cheaper AI systems that use less computing power, is hanging her own shingle. The former vice president of research at AI company Cohere and a veteran of Google DeepMind, has raised $50 million in seed…

prnewswire.com - YBI; Agilis Air - Ohio Drone Startup Agilis Air to Pre-Build 55 Low-Cost UAS Systems for Rapid Defense Deployment
Ohio Drone Startup Agilis Air to Pre-Build 55 Low-Cost UAS Systems for Rapid Defense Deployment
Cision PR Newswire

The start-up is accelerating U.S. drone production with grant funding from three sources: The YBI ENGINE Tech Incubator, the Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace & Defense (managed by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining)…

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - Voice AI startup ElevenLabs more than triples valuation in $500M round
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs more than triples valuation in $500M round
SiliconANGLE

ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models optimized to generate and transcribe speech, has raised $500 million in funding. Sequoia Capital led the Series D investment. It was joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Iconiq…

channelnewsasia.com - Startup EnFi raises $15 million to deploy AI credit analyst agents at banks
Startup EnFi raises $15 million to deploy AI credit analyst agents at banks
CNA

NEW YORK, Feb 4: Boston-based startup EnFi is raising $15 million with venture capital funds to increase deployment of artificial intelligence agents that analyze and make decisions on credit applications. The round is led by Fintop, with Patriot…

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