Startups
Juno Raised $12 Million to Fix Tax Season—and Somehow Made It Sympathetic
Juno wants to rescue accountants from PDF purgatory with AI. Against all odds, the week's most charming seed round is about tax prep.
Startups
Giggles Raised a Pre-Seed for Tradable Videos — TikTok Meets the Trading Floor
Giggles wants users to buy into videos before they blow up. It sounds unwell, but there may be a real social instinct hiding inside the chaos.
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.
Startups
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.