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How a Manufacturing CEO Once Spurned Venture Capital, Then Turned to It
He had bootstrapped his on-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend to $200 million in total revenue. But when the artificial-intelligence boom brought an explosion of customers spending across robotics, data centers, aerospace and other…
Venture Capital Is Concentrating Faster Than Ever. What Happens To Everyone Else?
Capital concentration in the private markets is accelerating. Companies with breakout growth or experienced founders in compelling sectors are raising funding at a faster clip, while the rest of the market is increasingly left behind. In 2025, 70%…
Exclusive | This Manufacturing CEO Once Spurned Venture Capital. Now He's Taking $110 Million.
The chief executive of a custom sheet-metal and parts business, Jim Belosic, spent years mocking Silicon Valley's ignorance and dismissing venture capitalists as “grifters.” He bootstrapped his on-demand manufacturing startup…
Exclusive | A $50 Million Rocket Deal Fueled by Trump's Hypersonic Dreams
Rocket maker Exquadrum isn't particularly old in the business of defense contracting. But the 24-year-old company has still been around a year longer than Ethan Thornton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropout who is taking it over in an…
Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem
Three-year-old Mach Industries has acquired solid rocket motor startup Exquadrum in a $50 million cash-and-equity deal, the Huntington Beach-based defense startup tells TechCrunch. Exquadrum — now rebranded as Mach Energetics — has…
2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list: How we chose this year's companies
Generative AI is transforming the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list rankings. Forty-three of the 50 companies on the 2026 list say the technology is critical to their business. The combined valuation of the companies has tripled in the last year, to an…
19. Vaulted Deep
Founders: Julia Reichelstein (CEO), Omar Abou-Sayed Previous appearances on Disruptor 50 list: 0 Igor Gnedo, Antonina Lepore & Adrianne Paerels Vaulted Deep is a tiny startup with a tidy idea: It uses technology originally developed for the oil and…
Michael Burry adds to beaten-down stocks while warning of echoes of dot-com bubble
Michael Burry added to several beaten-down positions while doubling down on his warning that the market's artificial intelligence boom is creating the kind of distortions last seen during the dot-com era. The investor, best known for predicting the…
Ouinex Raises $9M From Traders To Kill The Crypto Order Book
TOPSHOT - A group of divers swim with a sandbar shark off Jupiter, Florida on February 24, 2024. Florida is the place in the world with the most shark attacks in 2023. The news might make you rethink those well-deserved vacations on the state's…
Musk Turns to Loyalists to Rebuild xAI Ahead of SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk has long viewed artificial intelligence as critical to his sprawling business empire. Now, he's increasingly relying on allies from across his other companies as he scrambles to rebuild his AI firm, xAI, after slipping behind rivals. The…
Marc Andreessen Goes Ballistic Over Video Making Fun of Him
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Being a gazillionaire means you have a lot of enemies. It also means you have a lot of free time to rage at everyone on X, the Everything App. Take Marc Andreessen, the billionaire…
Big Short' investor Michael Burry says AI boom is dead ringer for dot-com bubble
Michael Burry says the AI boom is a dead ringer for the dot-com bubble. The investor of 'The Big Short' dissected the two periods in a Substack post and discussion thread this week. He also cast doubt on whether AI will live up to its heady…
Intel Corporation (INTC) Presents at J.P. Morgan 54th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference Transcript
Intel Corporation (INTC) J.P. Morgan 54th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference May 19, 2026 12:55 PM EDT Harlan Sur - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division All right. Good afternoon…
In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites
With this new product line, Vast is entering an increasingly crowded market. Historically, in the United States, a handful of large companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Maxar, and Sierra Space have manufactured medium and…
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry warns of similarities between AI boom and dot-com bubble
Famed investor Michael Burry is warning that the current rush to pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence bears eerie similarities to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s. “History is not a perfect guide, but I see so many…
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