Startups
Sofab Inks Raised $6 Million to Make Perovskite Solar Stop Falling Apart
Sofab Inks raised $6 million to replace a fragile solar-cell layer. The materials bet is niche, practical, and exactly the kind of weirdness clean energy needs.
Startups
Sila Raised $300 Million to Make Battery Anodes America’s Newest Strategic Asset
Sila raised $300 million to scale U.S. silicon-carbon anodes for EVs, AI, defense, and more. Serious technology, enormous factory, no tiny ambition.
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CuspAI Raised $450 Million to Search Chemistry. The Periodic Table Has Procurement.
CuspAI raised $450 million to use AI for new materials. The bet is serious, the foundry is enormous, and chemistry still refuses to ship on Tuesday.
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Emergent Raised $130 Million to Let Non-Coders Ship Software. The Bugs Are Also Invited.
Emergent raised $130 million to turn non-coders into software builders. The market is huge, the traction is real, and the debugging bill is coming.
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NextGO Epi Raised €2 Million to Make Power Electronics Wear Gallium Oxide
NextGO Epi raised €2 million to commercialize gallium oxide wafers for high-voltage power electronics. The material is weird, expensive, and genuinely promising.
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Wonder Raised $650 Million to Make Dinner a Robot-Mediated IPO Problem
Wonder raised $650 million at a $9 billion valuation to scale robot kitchens, food halls, AI, and delivery. The ambition is real. So is the burn.
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Mio Raised €1.9 Million to Become Slack's AI Chief of Staff
Mio wants to turn Slack into a place where follow-ups actually happen. A slightly unnerving AI coworker pitch with a surprisingly practical wedge.
Startups
Guthrie AI Raised $4 Million to Make Glazing Bids Less Medieval
Guthrie AI raised $4 million to help glazing contractors bid faster with virtual assistants and workflow automation. Extremely niche, oddly lovable, and more practical than most AI theater.
Startups
Glyph Mini Found More Traction Than a B2B Pitch Deck in Ten Days
Glyph Mini is a Reddit-native daily word puzzle built with Devvit, seeded challenges, glyph modifiers, ranks, stats, comments, and leaderboards.
Startups
Hexbrief Wants Engineering Blogs Without the Sponsored Confetti Fog
Hexbrief is a free Android app that curates six high-signal engineering blog reads daily, with structured technical briefs and source links.
AI
Ollama Raised $65 Million to Turn Your Laptop Into an AI Data Center
Ollama's new round says local and open-weight AI is no longer a hobby. It is becoming enterprise plumbing, with fewer tokens and more GPU invoices.
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Marker Raised $13 Million to Make AI Writing Feel Less Like Cheating
Marker raised $13 million to build an AI writing tool for drafts, revisions, and half-formed thoughts. Earnest, stylish, and surprisingly sane about the craft.