Venture
The former Google chairman's rocket startup lands a NASA contract to deliver the Aeolus science instrument to Mars — a significant credibility boost for a company still proving its launch vehicle.
Julian Park·
27d ago
3 sources
Venture
The Chinese startup's new open-weights model posts competitive agentic scores and a 1-million-token context window for $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens. The caveats matter, but so does the cost gap.
Lena Armitage·
28d ago
4 sources
Venture
Jeff Bezos's physical-AI startup is now valued at $41 billion. The term 'artificial general engineer' is doing a lot of work.
Lena Armitage·
28d ago
3 sources
Venture
Noam Shazeer, one of the eight researchers who co-authored the 2017 paper that underpins virtually every modern large language model, is leaving Google DeepMind for OpenAI. A former Trump administration AI policy official is coming aboard the same week.
Lena Armitage·
28d ago
3 sources
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New reporting identifies at least one previously undisclosed SpaceX shareholder connected to Chinese defense contractors — a finding that raises pointed questions about foreign ownership rules and national security review.
Lena Armitage·
28d ago
3 sources
Venture
As CoreWeave, Cerebras, and a handful of genuine AI infrastructure plays line up for public markets, a second tier of loosely AI-adjacent startups is quietly queuing behind them. Investors should know the difference.
Theo Kline·
29d ago
3 sources
Venture
The famously disciplined VC firm has launched its first-ever growth fund, quietly abandoning the ~$425 million fund-size cap that defined its identity for two decades.
Lena Armitage·
29d ago
2 sources
Venture
Peter Thiel's venture firm debuts a televised format hosted by its own CMO, starring Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey. The content strategy is more interesting than the casting.
Theo Kline·
29d ago
3 sources
Venture
The former Google chair's rocket startup has never successfully delivered a payload to orbit. NASA just handed it a Mars contract anyway.
Lena Armitage·
29d ago
3 sources
Venture
The Tokyo lab behind some of AI's most cited research is betting enterprise clients will pay nearly $1,000 a month for an agent that thinks slowly and delivers 100-page strategy reports.
Theo Kline·
29d ago
4 sources
Venture
The rocket company's path to public markets runs through a surprisingly terrestrial bottleneck: cooling infrastructure that needs abundant, affordable water.
Lena Armitage·
33d ago
3 sources
Venture
A new acronym is muscling out FAANG — and several of the companies it names are converging on the same IPO window, creating a stress test for tech valuations that investors haven't seen in this form.
Lena Armitage·
33d ago
3 sources
Venture
At its first-ever conference, the French AI company announced industrial AI partnerships with Airbus and BMW, a €4 billion infrastructure buildout, and the rebrand of Le Chat to Vibe — all in service of a single thesis: that sovereign, vertically integrated AI is the only kind enterprises will ultimately trust.
Lena Armitage·
33d ago
4 sources
Venture
Elon Musk's rocket company priced at $135 and closed its first trading day well above that mark — a debut that reshaped the billionaire wealth rankings in a single session.
Lena Armitage·
33d ago
3 sources
Venture
After years of staying private, SpaceX has filed to go public. The registration document reveals who benefits, who might not, and what the company's financials actually look like.
Lena Armitage·
33d ago
3 sources
Venture
The Sam Altman-backed startup has a hard deadline, a named customer, and now nearly half a billion dollars more. The physics still has to cooperate.
Theo Kline·
34d ago
3 sources
Venture
Sam Altman's biometric identity venture is reportedly downsizing even as his other company, OpenAI, moves toward a public offering — a split-screen moment that raises questions about whether iris-based identity verification has a viable business model.
Lena Armitage·
34d ago
3 sources
Venture
The ChatGPT maker has submitted a Form S-1 to the SEC, a procedural move that puts it on a parallel track with its closest rival — but tells us almost nothing yet about valuation, timing, or governance.
Lena Armitage·
34d ago
3 sources
Venture
Gigascale Capital's new fund is a deliberate counter-cycle play — and a signal that at least one former Big Tech executive thinks the energy transition is underpriced relative to the hype.
Julian Park·
34d ago
3 sources
Venture
New Delhi's last-minute regulatory cold feet on Starlink's market entry arrives at an awkward moment — just as SpaceX is building its public-offering growth narrative around emerging-market satellite broadband.
Lena Armitage·
34d ago
3 sources
Venture
The defense-focused spacecraft startup is reviving a financing vehicle most investors wrote off — and timing it to ride the SpaceX IPO frenzy.
Theo Kline·
34d ago
3 sources
Venture
The Mirror founder is back with a 'together tech' bet that physical co-presence and games can coexist — and Union Square Ventures is paying to find out.
Theo Kline·
35d ago
3 sources
Venture
In a funding climate obsessed with AI-driven headcount reduction, the rocket engine startup is betting half a billion dollars on engineers, not algorithms.
Theo Kline·
35d ago
3 sources
Venture
After a damaging incident at Blue Origin's pad, engineers who rebuilt Boca Chica say the timeline is brutal and the culture is worse.
Theo Kline·
35d ago
3 sources
Venture
The Seoul-based launch vehicle company isn't waiting for a government range. It built its own test infrastructure at home, and now it has $24 million to prove that wasn't just a stunt.
Theo Kline·
35d ago
4 sources
Venture
Expanse, part of YC's P26 batch, is pitching idle enterprise GPU capacity as an untapped resource. The claims are bold; the verification is still pending.
Iris Vale·
35d ago
3 sources
Venture
The AI company's revenue grew roughly fivefold in five months. Daniela Amodei says the ROI skeptics are wrong. The data is more complicated than that.
Lena Armitage·
42d ago
3 sources
Venture
The safety-focused AI lab that spun out of OpenAI in 2021 has filed for an IPO — a striking turn for a company that spent its early years insisting it wasn't racing anyone.
Lena Armitage·
45d ago
2 sources
Venture
The Claude maker has topped OpenAI's valuation and now beats Sam Altman to the public markets. Whether the numbers hold up to scrutiny is a different question.
Lena Armitage·
45d ago
3 sources
Venture
The Claude maker has submitted its IPO paperwork to U.S. regulators, ending months of speculation about which AI lab would blink first.
Lena Armitage·
45d ago
3 sources
Venture
The AI chip startup best known for its blazing-fast inference speeds is reportedly shifting its strategic focus — just as Nvidia made a $20 billion move that didn't quite add up to an acquisition.
Lena Armitage·
46d ago
3 sources
Venture
The logistics startup wants to be the infrastructure layer for brands that want Prime-like delivery without handing their customer relationships to Amazon.
Lena Armitage·
47d ago
3 sources
Venture
A headline number masks a persistent access problem that no single strong quarter can fix.
Theo Kline·
47d ago
3 sources
Venture
The columnar database company's revenue growth signals a maturing market for OLAP infrastructure — and a public offering may be closer than the industry expected.
Mara Voss·
47d ago
3 sources
Venture
The startup claims its electronically controlled lenses can shift focus in real time. The hardware is promising. The unknowns are significant.
Iris Vale·
48d ago
3 sources
Venture
The API aggregator that lets developers swap between dozens of AI models with a single integration just secured a nine-figure round — a bet that no single model will dominate.
Lena Armitage·
48d ago
3 sources