Peter Thiel’s big bet on solar-powered cow collars; plus, Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M dea
06 Apr 2026
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Beehiiv expands into podcasting; also, Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II
03 Apr 2026
7m
Commonwealth Fusion Systems leans on magnets for near-term revenue; plus the company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger
02 Apr 2026
8m
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M funExclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startupsd, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
01 Apr 2026
7m
ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand; Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales
31 Mar 2026
10m
Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation; plus, Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation
30 Mar 2026
4m
Conntour raises $7M to build an AI search engine for security video systems; plus, Lucid Bots raises $20M for its window-washing drones
27 Mar 2026
10m
Seattle's Brinc just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters; Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem
26 Mar 2026
8m
Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way; plus, Flighty gives you real-time alerts about airport disturbances
25 Mar 2026
7m
Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI; plus, the SEC dropped its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future
24 Mar 2026
7m
AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good; plus, Delve accused of misleading customers
23 Mar 2026
9m
Geothermal startup Fervo catapults itself over the ‘valley of death’; K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute
20 Mar 2026
7m
Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators
19 Mar 2026
6m
H&M wants to make clothing from CO2 using this startup’s tech; plus, Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs
18 Mar 2026
7m
Fuse wants to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by US credit unions; plus, Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B
17 Mar 2026
6m
The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)
16 Mar 2026
12m
A Chinese Brain-Computer Interface startup raised $21M just two months after launch; plus, Gumloop turns every employee into an AI agent builder
13 Mar 2026
9m
Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots
12 Mar 2026
7m
Canopii looks to succeed where past indoor farms have not; plus, Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legal tech boom endures
11 Mar 2026
7m
Robinhood’s startup fund stumbled in NYSE debut, plus, AI network startup Eridu emerged from stealth, and ModRetro seeking funding at $1B valuation
10 Mar 2026
11m
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