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AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial 'nervous system'
Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real…
AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation two months after launch
Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation. The company said Monday the round was led by Lightspeed. Ricursive says the system will be able…
Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman
Michael Stiefel: Welcome to the Architect's Podcast, where we discuss what it means to be an architect and how architects actually do their job. Today's guest is David Gudeman, who is the co-founder and CTO of VelocityAI, a product that gives every…
Savvy signs MOU with Neom to help games startups move 'from incubation to acceleration'
Savvy Games Group and Neom have signed a new memorandum of understanding with the intention of making the path for Saudi games startups moving from 'incubation to acceleration' easier. Studios leaving the former's Nine66 Incubator Program will now…
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Startup Named After 'Despicable Me' Villain GRU Reveals Plans to Open Hotel on the Moon by 2032
A San Fransisco startup has announced plans to open a hotel on the moon by 2032 The announcement follows President Donald Trump's “Ensuring American Space Superiority' executive order urging NASA to build a lunar structure by 2030 The…
These are the European startups Nvidia backed in 2025, as it ramped up investing in the continent's AI companies
Augustin Pasquini | Afp | Getty Images In 2025, Nvidia hugely upped its investments in European tech companies, taking part in 14 funding rounds, compared to seven in 2024. The chip giant invested in leading European startups, including Mistral…
Nvidia and Alphabet VC arms back AI startup Synthesia at $4 billion valuation
British AI startup Synthesia has raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation. The fresh funding nearly doubles the $2.1 billion price tag the company hit when it raised in January 2025. The round comes amid a surge of private investment in…
AI startup Synthesia raises $200M in funding from Nvidia, Google, others (NVDA:NASDAQ)
Artificial intelligence startup Synthesia has raised $200M in a new Series E funding round, the company said on Monday. Nvidia's (NVDA) venture capital arm, Google's (GOOG) (GOOGL) venture arm, and venture firm Kleiner Perkins are among It enables…
Why two Gen Z college dropouts are combatting financial nihilism with a credit card startup
Are the kids alright? Covering fintech typically gives me a pretty bleak answer to the age-old question. From prediction markets to crypto to zero-day options, every new financial product targeted at Gen Z seems to fall under the category of…
California easily maintains its startup crown, despite naysayers
Some of California's most prominent venture capitalists are quick to slam their state, arguing that fiscal mismanagement and high taxes will cause startups to form elsewhere. So far that doesn't seem to be happening. For the record, I live near…
What actually matters in neurotech startups (and what doesn't) - LessWrong
Note: Extraordinarily grateful to Milan Cvitkovic, Sumner Norman, Ben Woodington, and Adam Marblestone for all the helpful conversations, comments, and critiques on drafts of this essay. The whole field of neurotech is nauseatingly complicated.
U.S. startup incubator removes Canada from list of places where it invest: report
Y Combinator, the U.S. startup incubator behind companies like DoorDash Inc., Airbnb Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc., has removed Canada from a list of countries where it will invest. The San Francisco-based organization made the change in the…
Saudi Arabia signs MoU to bolster pipeline for game startups
Savvy Games Group and NEOM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to clear the runway for video game startups Saudi Arabia. The two organizations said the move will help video game startups move from 'incubation to acceleration' with the…
Cloud security startup Upwind raises $250M funding round
Upwind Security Inc., a startup with a platform for securing public cloud environments, today announced that it has closed a $250 million funding round. Bessemer led the Series B investment with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture…
AI Startups Hit Unicorn Status at Seed Stage
Case in point: Humans&, a three-month-old San Francisco-based AI lab founded by researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Meta, closed a $480 million seed round, one of the largest seed financings ever, at an extraordinary $4.48 billion…
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