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Meet the 10 Startups Set to Pitch Their Companies in Startup Space 2026
The annual Startup Space entrepreneur pitch contest showcases emerging space and satellite technology to an audience of investors during SATShow Week. Competitors' technologies and innovations have pushed the boundaries of the field. Last year…
Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline
The Everett, Washington-based fusion energy startup Helion announced Friday that it has hit a key milestone in its quest for fusion power. Plasmas inside the company's Polaris prototype reactor have reached 150 million degrees Celsius…
Palantir Alumni Launch Thiel-Backed European Defense Startup
Defense startup Onodrim is emerging from stealth with an audacious pitch: it wants to build Europe's next industrial powerhouse for war. The Amsterdam-based company says it will combine software, hardware and advanced manufacturing to position…
Unicorn startups are losing their horns
New valuation data from PitchBook suggests that more than one-quarter of VC-backed 'unicorns' have lost their horns, even if still being marked at more than $1 billion by their venture capitalists. Why it matters: Most limited partners aren't able…
Cybersecurity CEO says we're in an AI bubble. Here's what he looks for when investing in a startup.
The CEO of cybersecurity company Cato Networks believes we're experiencing an AI bubble — but he's still writing checks. Serial entrepreneur, Shlomo Kramer, told Business Insider that although the promise of AI is 'happening at a pace that…
A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup
As Valentine's Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates — not with people they met on Tinder or Hinge, but with matches from a service called Date Drop, designed by Stanford graduate student Henry Weng.
Startup bets on new approach to space-based missile defense
WASHINGTON — Wardstone is staking its future on the Pentagon's appetite for orbital missile defense. The California-based startup, founded by brothers Sebastian and Tobias Fischer, has raised about $5 million in seed funding and is preparing…
Enterprise AI startup Cohere tops revenue target as momentum builds to IPO: Investor memo
Cohere hit roughly $240 million in annual recurring revenue last year, surpassing its $200 million target, according to a February investor memo viewed by CNBC. The company develops AI models and builds software tools for enterprise customers.
A scary SaaS selloff changes the calculus for startups and private markets: 'code alone was never a real moat'
On this Friday the 13th, I didn't have to try hard to come up with a scary story for you. It all started a little over a week ago. Everything in the public and private markets for 2026 seemed as normal as can be. We were all talking about the…
Auxilium, MBI launch life sciences startup $250K accelerator program
Applications are now open for a new accelerator program aimed at scaling Central Massachusetts life sciences companies, created by Worcester-based incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives and startup hub Auxilium. The three-month accelerator…
India's computer vision health startup Krigat wins Supernova AI MEA in Cairo
4 min read Cairo, Egypt Make us preferred source on Google Cairo garnered the attention of global artificial intelligence (AI) startups this week as the Supernova AI MEA Challenge was held for the first time at AI Everything Middle East & Africa…
Brunswick startup 'shifts' to selling rocket boosters
Brunswick-based aerospace startup bluShift is shifting its focus to marketing its biofuel-powered engine, a departure from its original mission of using its rockets to launch small satellites into space. “While we still have our passion and…
Bloomberg Business of Sports: Super Prediction Markets
Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower follow the money in the world of sports, taking listeners inside decisions that power the multibillion dollar industry. Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower follow the money in the world of…
AWS Is Going To Space With Data Center Startup Starcloud Via Outposts To Run AI Models
‘I am excited to share that Starcloud will be the first to launch the AWS Outposts hardware to space on our second satellite launching in October this year, further enabling high-performance computing in space,' says Starcloud CEO Philip…
AI Ethics in Startups: Why Developers Must Lead
In many startups, ethics is treated like a policy problem. legal teams leadership statements compliance checklists That approach fails in AI. Because in AI products, ethics is not a document. Its behaviour is encoded in systems. And the people who…
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