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Dungeon Crawler Carl's 7 Storytelling Hacks For Startup Founders
Rohit Jha is CEO and Co-Founder of Transcelestial | Writing about space, lasers, anime, AI, books, movies, research, telecom. Dungeon Crawler Carl transforms one of the most absurd premises in fiction, Earth vaporized for intergalactic reality TV…
SpaceX and AI startup wealth fuels demand for private jets
Aviation lawyer Amanda Applegate skipped her annual vacation last month as a surge of wealth from AI startups and SpaceX sent a wave of tech investors shopping for private jets, burying her in paperwork for aircraft-purchase agreements. The…
Why Early Global Hiring Is Becoming A Superpower For High-Growth Startups
The fastest-scaling startups are looking overseas for talent. Launching a startup has never been easy, but today's founders face one of the most unforgiving business environments in decades. Globally, around 90% of startups fail, with nearly half…
The Crypto Startup Trying to Put a Barrel of Oil on Blockchain
The oil industry has spent more than a century pushing into new frontiers. Its engineers pulled crude from beneath deserts, oceans and frozen tundra. Its traders built markets that turned oil into the world's most actively traded commodity. Now a…
Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he's seen after investing in 500+ startups
Charles Hudson has spent more than a decade investing in early-stage startups. As the founder and managing partner at Precursor Ventures, he's invested in hundreds of companies and has seen massive shifts in the markets that require…
Crypto startup tries to put a barrel of oil on blockchain - TT
The Energy Substantiation team includes (from left) Wil Harris, Katie Oates, Lucas Harris and Chris Ericksen in Larkspur, Calif. (Bryan Banducci/Bloomberg) Energy Substantiation launched a blockchain token, WTIC, designed to represent one barrel of…
Israeli startup to build world's first 'Iron Dome for drone swarms'
Skapion, an Israel defense tech company developing a Native Counter Swarm system for the next generation of unmanned aerial threats, announced Thursday that it raised $36 million during its Seed round. The round was co-led by UP.Partners and Khosla…
AI Startups Hire a Specific Type of Employee. Do You Fit the Mold?
AI companies hire 15% fewer entry-level employees than other startups without an AI focus, a new Harvard Business School and INSEAD study found. The typical AI startup new hire tends to be “male, more likely to hold advanced degrees, and…
Startup reveals prototype of floating survival pod designed to withstand tsunamis and extreme flooding
A French startup company has unveiled a prototype for a survival device that it says can save people from tsunamis and severe flooding. The prototype was revealed at a technology conference in Paris earlier this month. The company, Lifepods, says…
Geothermal drilling startup Hephae raised $17.8M
Hephae Energy Technology, a high temperature geothermal drilling startup, closed a $17.8 million Series A, co-founder and CEO Steve Krase tells Axios Pro. Why it matters: There's growing interest in the geothermal supply chain following Fervo…
David Gardner: 2026 is most significant year ever for SaaS startups and early-stage investors
As I was writing my newsletter last week on significant industry changes, it occurred to me that even now, just half way through the year, 2026 may already be the most important year that the SaaS industry (software running in a browser) as every…
AAK backs Silicon Valley carbon-to-fats startup Savor
Swedish specialty plant-based oil-and-fats maker AAK is collaborating with and investing in U.S. startup Savor, Savor CEO Kathleen Alexander tells Axios Pro exclusively. The big picture: Funding for food tech has slowed in recent years due to…
Fear and faith in Elon Musk's AI startup
By the time he got sick enough to go to the emergency room, he had been working 100-hour weeks for several months. But a 26-year-old xAI employee, who spoke with The Standard on condition of anonymity, knew the work didn't stop. Texts he received…
Autonomous ship startup Kraken raises $175M at $1B valuation
Kraken Technology Group Ltd., a British defense startup that makes autonomous ships, has raised $175 million in funding. Private equity firm DTCP led the Series B deal. It was joined by the UK government's British Business Bank, the NATO Innovation…
AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation
Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal has drawn $400 million worth of interest from…
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