Startups
Sora Fuel Raised $14.6 Million to Bottle the Sky. Honestly, Respect
Sora Fuel raised $14.6M to make jet fuel from air. It sounds deranged, climate-necessary, and oddly promising.
Startups
ARM Started Making Its Own Chips—So Naturally, Someone Just Raised $400M to Sell Everyone Else the Blueprints
SiFive closed a $400M oversubscribed Series G at a $3.65B valuation. NVIDIA invested. The pitch? Open-source chip blueprints. The hook? ARM went rogue and everyone panicked.
Startups
This Atlanta Startup Just Raised $350M to Build Autonomous Hypersonic Warplanes. Also, a Nicer Way to Get to Paris.
Hermeus has $350M, an autonomous fighter drone program, and somehow also a civilian passenger jet named 'Halcyon.' The future of defense tech smells suspiciously like venture capital.
Startups
Audicin Wants to Fix Your Stress With Sound. The Science Is Airtight.
A Finnish startup born in a CEO's PTSD recovery is using brainwave entrainment to regulate your nervous system — and the Oura co-founder is backing it.
Startups
WHOOP Just Raised $575 Million and an IPO Is Next — My Boston Bias Is Now Clinically Unmanageable
Boston's wearable health darling WHOOP hit a $10.1B valuation with athletes, sovereign wealth funds, and 2.5M members on board. I have completely abandoned all pretense of objectivity.
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Cash App Introduces Buy Now, Pay Later for Venmo-Style Shame Transfers
Cash App now lets you amortize the humiliation of owing your friend $38 for tacos. Fintech has finally found a way to turn friendship into structured debt.
Startups
Someone Said ‘What If Legos, But Robots’ — VCs Gave Them $5.5 Million in Eight Months Flat
An 8-month-old startup just raised $5.5M to sell modular robots it calls ‘Legos for robots.’ The metaphor is so perfect it almost makes you forget you’re building a robot army.
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Rowan Raised 3.3M to Help Small Business Owners Exit With Dignity. Incredibly, This Is Not a Joke.
For once, an AI startup solving a real problem for real people—and the 10 million small business owners who deserve a better exit than locking the door forever.
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Starcloud Raised $170M to Move AI Compute Into Orbit. The Bitcoin Miner Is Not the Weirdest Part.
AI ate the power grid. Now a Seattle startup wants to launch 88,000 satellites to fix it — and send a Bitcoin miner along for the ride.
Startups
SoftBank Borrowed $40 Billion to Invest $30 Billion in OpenAI, and I Have So Many Questions
Masayoshi Son took out a $40B bridge loan to double down on AI. The bridge leads to an $850B valuation and a lot of faith.
Startups
A Startup Called XFX Is Fixing the Part of Crypto That Still Feels Like a Wire Transfer. Root for Them.
Three ex-Bitso founders raised $17 million to solve the foreign exchange problem they kept running into... at Bitso. The startup is called XFX. I find this extremely encouraging.