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techcrunch.com - Anna Heim - Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A
Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A
TechCrunch

Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, whose properties make it both too good to give up but hard to reuse. Syntetica…

techcrunch.com - Theresa Loconsolo - Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
TechCrunch

Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That's the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone…

inc.com - Victoria Watters - Defense Startups Are Pouring Money Into Brand. Here's Why It Matters for Marketers Everywhere
Defense Startups Are Pouring Money Into Brand. Here's Why It Matters for Marketers Everywhere
Inc

In 2018, a defense software company called Rebellion Defense made a decision that looked, at the time, like a category error. It invested in brand. Rebellion went beyond a simple logo refresh and a tidier sales deck, developing a deliberate…

crunchbase.com - Joanna Glasner - China And AI Lead Asia's Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2
China And AI Lead Asia's Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2
Crunchbase

Investment into Asia-based startups soared in the second quarter, boosted by a sharp rise in funding to China-based companies and AI startups. Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per…

cnbc.com - Liz Knueven - Best business insurance for online startups and e-commerce stores
Best business insurance for online startups and e-commerce stores
CNBC

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businessinsider.com - Dan DeFrancesco - Hitting it big betting on startups in the AI era will be a lot harder, but Silicon Valley might not feel the worst of it
Hitting it big betting on startups in the AI era will be a lot harder, but Silicon Valley might not feel the worst of it
Business Insider

I wish I could have gotten in early on that company. With AI company valuations acting like rocketships, it's easy to play the 'what if' game. The reality is the process isn't as simple as writing a check and watching your money multiply many times…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M
Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M
TechCrunch

Neko Health, the body-scanning and health assessment startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 million Series C. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture…

businessinsider.com - Rya Jetha - A Red Bull engineer got bored with Formula One. His robotics startup just raised $55 million.
A Red Bull engineer got bored with Formula One. His robotics startup just raised $55 million.
Business Insider

A former Formula One engineer left the world's fastest race cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories. Now, his Munich-based startup, microagi, has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured…

forbes.com - Rashi Shrivastava - AI Startup Reflection Inks $1 Billion Compute Deal To Challenge China's Open Source Dominance
AI Startup Reflection Inks $1 Billion Compute Deal To Challenge China's Open Source Dominance
Forbes

Cofounders Misha Laskin (left) and Ioannis Antonoglou (right) left Google Deepmind to start Reflection in March 2024. Reflection announced Tuesday that it inked a deal to buy $1 billion worth of compute from neocloud Nebius to train its open source…

wsj.com - Dominic Chopping - Neko Health, a Body-Scan Startup, Raises $700 Million in Latest Fundraising
Neko Health, a Body-Scan Startup, Raises $700 Million in Latest Fundraising
Wall Street Journal

STOCKHOLM—Neko Health, the body-scanning technology startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million in a new funding round as it prepares to launch its first U.S. clinic later this year. The Series C round was co-led by…

businessinsider.com - Ana Altchek - The CEO of a vibe-coding startup Emergent shares what he looks for in developers in the AI era
The CEO of a vibe-coding startup Emergent shares what he looks for in developers in the AI era
Business Insider

As AI reshapes software engineering, the CEO of a buzzy vibe-coding startup is betting that developers will become more valuable, not less. During a live Q&A with Business Insider, Emergent CEO and cofounder Mukund Jha said he doesn't see AI as a…

gizmodo.com - Webb Wright - New Startup Is Building Mini Drones to Wage a War of Total Destruction on Mosquitos
New Startup Is Building Mini Drones to Wage a War of Total Destruction on Mosquitos
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Human beings have long been at war with mosquitos, and it's not at all clear we've been winning. Malaria alone—just one of many deadly mosquito-borne illnesses—kills over 600,000 people every year, most of them very young children.

9to5mac.com - Marcus Mendes - Apple looks into buying AI chip startups to bolster infrastructure
Apple looks into buying AI chip startups to bolster infrastructure
9to5Mac

The Information reports that Apple has been in talks with bankers and semiconductor startups as it explores acquisitions to strengthen its AI server capabilities. Here are the details. According to The Information, Apple has been exploring…

entrepreneur.com - Demos Parneros - 'I'm Not a Big Company CEO.' A Billion-Dollar Founder's Confession - and What It Reveals About Startup Success
'I'm Not a Big Company CEO.' A Billion-Dollar Founder's Confession - and What It Reveals About Startup Success
Homepage | Entrepreneur

Roughly nine out of every 10 startups fail. Almost everything we read about entrepreneurship is written for that reality: how to survive the early days, how to find product-market fit, how to avoid running out of cash. Far less gets written about…

spacenews.com - Debra Werner - Startup working with University of Texas focuses on trapping small debris
Startup working with University of Texas focuses on trapping small debris
SpaceNews: The space industry's source

NAPA, Calif. – Florida startup Satellite Orbital Access and Removal (SOAR) announced a partnership July 15 with the University of Texas, El Paso, (UTEP) to develop a passive system to capture small space debris. “The consequences of…

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