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The Methodology Behind The Next Billion-Dollar Startups
Since 2015, Forbes has partnered with TrueBridge Capital to identify the fast-growing private companies most likely to become tomorrow's category-defining businesses. The Next Billion-Dollar Startups list spotlights the most promising companies on…
Three Signals That Define This Year's Next Billion-Dollar Startups
Every year, thousands of venture-backed startups raise millions in capital, generate headlines, and promise to reshape entire industries. Only a small fraction ultimately become enduring, category-defining businesses. The 2026 Forbes Next…
Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2026 List
For a dozen years, Forbes has partnered with TrueBridge Capital Partners to highlight the companies that are likely to become unicorns in the near future. To qualify, startups must be venture-backed, based in the U.S. and worth less than $1…
The Long-Term Success Of 10 Next Billion-Dollar Startups Alums
When Forbes launched the Next Billion-Dollar Startups List more than a decade ago, the premise was simple: identify promising young venture backed companies before they became famous unicorns. Each year, the most promising companies are nominated…
This Startup Will Pay You To Provide Home Care For Your Loved Ones
O n Jesse Vega's first date with Deaunda Lira, a romantic sushi dinner in Colorado Springs three years ago, he was upfront: He has epilepsy and suffers severe seizures. “It could be scary,” Jesse, 49, recalls telling her. Deaunda, 52…
Google and KDDI are ready to back Japanese startups.
Joint funding: Equity investments from both the AI Futures Fund and KDDI Open Innovation Fund. The latest AI models: Early access to some of Google's most advanced AI tools — including Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — plus…
The Market Is Hostage To Two Startups (NASDAQ:SMH)
Deep Value Investing 14.19K Followers I still think the AI bears are way too early, but I have lost some conviction as the AI trade has become dangerously dependent on OpenAI and Anthropic. Strip out Alphabet (along with its $99B paper gain), and…
This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing
A startup that has developed software to track whether AI coding tools are actually making developers more productive has raised $13.5 million. San Francisco-based Weave builds tools that measure the work of human engineers and AI coding tools…
Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng steps down, citing startup-related stress and illness
A cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab said she's stepping down because of stress and illness. Lilian Weng said in a post on X that Tuesday would be her last day at Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup she cofounded with OpenAI's former chief…
Oil startup by ex-Goldman executive prepares for $67M IPO - TT
An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP) 1947 Oil & Gas plans to raise 50 million pounds in a London AIM listing next month to help fund its growth strategy. The company is pursuing a $65 million acquisition of Renaissance Offshore…
Oil Startup Backed by Ex-Goldman Commodity Chief Currie to IPO
Jeff Currie, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. commodities chief whose calls made him one of Wall Street's best-known energy market strategists, is preparing to raise £50 million ($67 million) in a London stock market listing to build an…
No. 1 on the Fortune Global 500: Amazon's Jeff Bezos on how his garage startup became the largest company in the world by revenue
Jeff Bezos won't pretend he didn't see this day coming. Sure, when he was sitting in his Bellevue, Wash., garage in 1995, at a makeshift desk made from a wooden door slab, he probably wasn't imagining that his nascent online bookshop would grow…
Nuclear test reactor startups raise funding
The three nuclear startups that hit milestones for the DOE's test reactor program are raising or have recently closed big venture capital rounds. Why it matters: VCs are looking for proof points as they rush to back a new wave of nuclear startups.
Quantum computing startup ZuriQ gets $25.5M to scale 2D trapped-ion processor design
Investors are throwing money at quantum computers again, with the Swiss startup ZuriQ AG becoming the latest beneficiary of their largesse after closing on a $25.5 million seed funding round. The investment was led by Quantonation and saw the…
For Some, So-Called 'Skynet Day' Came too Close to Sci-Fi After a Rogue Agent Hacked Into a Startup
To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system…
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