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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy said Monday it hopes to raise up to $1.3 billion in its initial public offering. The company would be valued at up to $6.5 billion if shares sell at the top of its $21 to $24 price target. That's more than twice what…
AI Computing Is a Memory Hog. An Nvidia-Backed Startup Has an Answer.
Some companies are trying to solve the computing crunch by making more efficient chips. A startup called RadixArk is trying to solve it by making chips more efficient—and its approach has gained the backing of some of the tech industry's…
Startup Says It's Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo Alto-based startup working on a beanie it says will probe your actual brain signals.
Nvidia and Pulte are helping this startup put mini data centers on homes
Span, a California-based startup, has developled small, fractional data centers, or 'nodes,' called XFRA units. The idea is to take advantage of unused electrical capacity on local grids, which the Span smart panels can pinpoint. Nvidia GPUs are…
Step inside the gorgeous, futuristic offices of Vast, the startup designing the next-gen space station
A tall baobab tree greets people inside the Long Beach, California, headquarters of Vast, an aerospace company that is building the space station of the future. It's planted beneath a skylight in the center of a white-painted circular lobby…
Billion-Dollar AI Rounds Push April To Third-Highest Startup Funding Month In A Year
Global venture funding reached $56 billion in April, marking the third-largest monthly funding in a year. Funding was up 100% year over year from $26 billion, according to Crunchbase data. This increase was driven by large rounds to AI lab…
Waymo's CEO said early startups make one fatal mistake in every tech hype cycle
Waymo's CEO said early-stage startups often make one big mistake that kills them. In a Sequoia Capital podcast released Friday, co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said startups tend to get excited by new technological breakthroughs but focus on quick solutions…
French Startup IPFC Unveils AI Rights Model to Protect and Pay Creators
In the run up to the Cannes Film Festival, French entrepreneurs Emmanuel Lipszyc and Thomas Cohen have launched IPFC, an ambitious new startup aiming to protect and monetize creative IP consumed by generative AI systems. Their model draws…
Exclusive: AI startup Vori raises $22 million to help grocery stores compete with Walmart and Amazon
Brandon Hill's parents met and fell in love in an independent grocery store. Decades later, the startup founder is trying to make sure stores like that don't get swallowed up by Walmart and Amazon. Hill is the cofounder and CEO of Vori, a San…
Haun Ventures Raises $1B to Fund Crypto, AI Startups
Haun Ventures has raised $1 billion to back early- and late-stage crypto startups, while expanding into artificial intelligence for the first time. The funds will focus on three areas: crypto financial infrastructure, tokenization and AI agents.
A Raleigh e-commerce startup led by Scot Wingo has raised a $13.6M seed round
A Raleigh startup trying to help e-commerce companies navigate new AI-based tech and trends has raised $13.6 million in a seed round from investors. Why it matters: The company, called ReFiBuy, is the latest startup from Scot Wingo, a serial…
Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre signs MoU with NABL to get global recognition for startups' research
To strengthen Karnataka's innovation ecosystem, the Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) to get global recognition…
Pune Inc | From mountain chill to made-in-India innovation: Startup 'prints' warmth into lightweight jackets
Yash Goliya enjoyed travelling but felt weighed down by the thick jackets he had to carry to some of Europe's scenic and coldest mountains. Regular winter jackets could not be used in any other season. “That's what made me think that we…
The hidden gender gap in startup hiring
The gender gap in European startups tends to get framed as a funding problem. Women founders receive a fraction of VC investment. They are underrepresented on cap tables and on pitch day rosters. But there is a prior problem that rarely makes it…
Intel backs quantum startup Quantware in $178m Series B to kick-start production at 'industrial scale'
Dutch startup Quantware, which designs and builds processors for quantum computers, has raised $178m in Series B equity funding to kick-start industrial production of its technology. The round was co-led by US semiconductor giant Intel's venture…
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