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Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood…
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.
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Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles
The funding for the startup is timely. The Pentagon has been looking to procure…
The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut
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Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast
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Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth
AI accounting startup Rillet announced a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion…
Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
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Sachin Bansal’s fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment
In the financial year ended March 2026, Navi reported that it generated ₹30.91 billion…
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Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Etched delivers its AI tech as full systems that it calls "frontier inference clusters."…
Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
Perplexity spent the past year running one of the biggest AI growth experiments, giving…
Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York
Neko Health's promised U.S. expansion arrives on September 24, when the health-scanning startup opens…
Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
Reach Capital announced Tuesday the close of a $265 million Fund V. The thesis…
Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
"Grounded is not an 'EV company,' nor is Grounded a vehicle company at all,"…
