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techcrunch.com - Tim De Chant - Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO
TechCrunch

Geothermal startup Fervo Energy said Monday it hopes to raise up to $1.3 billion in its initial public offering. The company would be valued at up to $6.5 billion if shares sell at the top of its $21 to $24 price target. That's more than twice what…

wsj.com - Meghan Bobrowsky - AI Computing Is a Memory Hog. An Nvidia-Backed Startup Has an Answer.
AI Computing Is a Memory Hog. An Nvidia-Backed Startup Has an Answer.
Wall Street Journal

Some companies are trying to solve the computing crunch by making more efficient chips. A startup called RadixArk is trying to solve it by making chips more efficient—and its approach has gained the backing of some of the tech industry's…

futurism.com - Joe Wilkins - Startup Says It's Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
Startup Says It's Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
Futurism

Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo Alto-based startup working on a beanie it says will probe your actual brain signals.

cnbc.com - Diana Olick - Nvidia and Pulte are helping this startup put mini data centers on homes
Nvidia and Pulte are helping this startup put mini data centers on homes
CNBC

Span, a California-based startup, has developled small, fractional data centers, or 'nodes,' called XFRA units. The idea is to take advantage of unused electrical capacity on local grids, which the Span smart panels can pinpoint. Nvidia GPUs are…

fastcompany.com - Diana Budds - Step inside the gorgeous, futuristic offices of Vast, the startup designing the next-gen space station
Step inside the gorgeous, futuristic offices of Vast, the startup designing the next-gen space station
Fast Company

A tall baobab tree greets people inside the Long Beach, California, headquarters of Vast, an aerospace company that is building the space station of the future. It's planted beneath a skylight in the center of a white-painted circular lobby…

crunchbase.com - Gené Teare - Billion-Dollar AI Rounds Push April To Third-Highest Startup Funding Month In A Year
Billion-Dollar AI Rounds Push April To Third-Highest Startup Funding Month In A Year
Crunchbase

Global venture funding reached $56 billion in April, marking the third-largest monthly funding in a year. Funding was up 100% year over year from $26 billion, according to Crunchbase data. This increase was driven by large rounds to AI lab…

businessinsider.com - Aditi Bharade - Waymo's CEO said early startups make one fatal mistake in every tech hype cycle
Waymo's CEO said early startups make one fatal mistake in every tech hype cycle
Business Insider

Waymo's CEO said early-stage startups often make one big mistake that kills them. In a Sequoia Capital podcast released Friday, co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said startups tend to get excited by new technological breakthroughs but focus on quick solutions…

variety.com - Elsa Keslassy - French Startup IPFC Unveils AI Rights Model to Protect and Pay Creators
French Startup IPFC Unveils AI Rights Model to Protect and Pay Creators
Variety

In the run up to the Cannes Film Festival, French entrepreneurs Emmanuel Lipszyc and Thomas Cohen have launched IPFC, an ambitious new startup aiming to protect and monetize creative IP consumed by generative AI systems. Their model draws…

fortune.com - Lily Mae Lazarus - Exclusive: AI startup Vori raises $22 million to help grocery stores compete with Walmart and Amazon
Exclusive: AI startup Vori raises $22 million to help grocery stores compete with Walmart and Amazon
Fortune

Brandon Hill's parents met and fell in love in an independent grocery store. Decades later, the startup founder is trying to make sure stores like that don't get swallowed up by Walmart and Amazon. Hill is the cofounder and CEO of Vori, a San…

cointelegraph.com - Haun Ventures Raises $1B to Fund Crypto, AI Startups
Haun Ventures Raises $1B to Fund Crypto, AI Startups
Cointelegraph

Haun Ventures has raised $1 billion to back early- and late-stage crypto startups, while expanding into artificial intelligence for the first time. The funds will focus on three areas: crypto financial infrastructure, tokenization and AI agents.

axios.com - Zachery Eanes - A Raleigh e-commerce startup led by Scot Wingo has raised a $13.6M seed round
A Raleigh e-commerce startup led by Scot Wingo has raised a $13.6M seed round
Axios

A Raleigh startup trying to help e-commerce companies navigate new AI-based tech and trends has raised $13.6 million in a seed round from investors. Why it matters: The company, called ReFiBuy, is the latest startup from Scot Wingo, a serial…

thehindu.com - Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre signs MoU with NABL to get global recognition for startups' research
Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre signs MoU with NABL to get global recognition for startups' research
The Hindu

To strengthen Karnataka's innovation ecosystem, the Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) to get global recognition…

indianexpress.com - Dipanita Nath - Pune Inc | From mountain chill to made-in-India innovation: Startup 'prints' warmth into lightweight jackets
Pune Inc | From mountain chill to made-in-India innovation: Startup 'prints' warmth into lightweight jackets
The Indian Express

Yash Goliya enjoyed travelling but felt weighed down by the thick jackets he had to carry to some of Europe's scenic and coldest mountains. Regular winter jackets could not be used in any other season. “That's what made me think that we…

sifted.eu - Professor Aleksandra Kacperczyk - The hidden gender gap in startup hiring
The hidden gender gap in startup hiring
Sifted

The gender gap in European startups tends to get framed as a funding problem. Women founders receive a fraction of VC investment. They are underrepresented on cap tables and on pitch day rosters. But there is a prior problem that rarely makes it…

sifted.eu - Daphné Leprince-Ringuet - Intel backs quantum startup Quantware in $178m Series B to kick-start production at 'industrial scale'
Intel backs quantum startup Quantware in $178m Series B to kick-start production at 'industrial scale'
Sifted

Dutch startup Quantware, which designs and builds processors for quantum computers, has raised $178m in Series B equity funding to kick-start industrial production of its technology. The round was co-led by US semiconductor giant Intel's venture…

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