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Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging…
The 11 standout startups from YC's Demo Day, according to VCs
With each new season comes another YC Demo Day. On Tuesday, the Spring 2026 cohort was unveiled, filled with defense tech, robotics, AI infrastructure and developer tools, and of course, AI agents themselves. TechCrunch spoke to eight investors to…
Social media declared Cursor dead. Then SpaceX handed the AI startup a $60 billion lifeline.
Cursor had a rough start to 2026. The AI coding startup once garnered lavish praise for its explosive revenue growth. When prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” in early 2025, he gave an explicit…
Deep-tech startups bridge research and industry at Limassol event
Non-profit organisation Cyprus Seeds successfully concluded its participation in the Doers Summit 2026 in Limassol last month, where it reinforced its position as the island's only scientific innovation catalyst by bringing together deep-tech…
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that's holding back LLMs
What's more, Subquadratic says, SubQ does this while more or less matching the performance of the best models put out by Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic on key tasks like coding. The problem was that the company at first provided little…
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round
AI inference company Baseten is close to finalizing a stunning $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, the WSJ reports. Just five months ago, the startup announced that it had raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation.
Austrian propulsion startup joins sovereign space funding surge
TAMPA, Fla. — Austrian satellite propulsion startup Gate Space has won 6.3 million euros ($7.2 million) in funding from Europe's government-backed accelerator program, joining a wave of European companies attracting capital for greater space…
I watched enterprises buy AI that solved the wrong problem. So I left Dell and built a startup to fix it
A new drug clears the FDA. Now the health plan has to decide whether to cover it, and that decision sets off a scramble: six or seven specialists, working mostly in sequence, two to three months, and somewhere around $100,000 by the time it's done.
Sen. Gillibrand's 22-year-old son raises $30M for trading startup as Dem champions crypto in DC
The 22-year-old son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — one of Capitol Hill's most prominent boosters of cryptocurrency legislation — has reportedly raised $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange startup that is already valued at…
India's Startup Success Story Is Entering a New Global Growth Phase
It has evolved from an emerging entrepreneurial market to one of the world's largest innovation ecosystems that generates technology startups, fintech platforms, artificial intelligence companies, SaaS firms and unicorns that are well known across…
Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding
Seattle-based startup Gradial today revealed it has raised $65 million in a Series C round of funding to accelerate the development of its agentic artificial intelligence operating system for marketing. Today's round was first reported by Axios and…
Startups need customers before investors, says seasoned entrepreneur
Europe's long-term competitiveness will depend less on the amount of money available to startups and more on the strength of the ecosystems supporting them, according to seasoned entrepreneur, policy advisor and angel investor Ana Barjasic.
Game-clip AI startup General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at $2B valuation
General Intuition PBC is in talks to raise about $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, TechCrunch reported today, citing people familiar with the talks. The New York-based startup uses video game footage to train artificial…
Cyprus Business Now: tourism, startups, Persianis, CySEC, consumer prices
In an exclusive interview with the Cyprus Mail, the association stressed that Cyprus serves as a prime example of why European aviation policies must take into account the realities facing islands and remote regions. ERA, which represents more than…
What Is Z AI? The Chinese Startup Shaking Up the AI Race With GLM-5.2 - Memeburn
If you follow AI news, you have probably heard of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. But there is another name rapidly climbing the ranks that many people still do not recognize. Z AI, the Beijing-based company behind the GLM family of large…
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