The pace of big funding rounds continued to hold up at brisk levels this past week, led by a $1.4 billion financing for 鈥渞obot brain鈥� developer Skild AI. More big rounds went to startups in sectors including AI chips, brain-computer interfaces...
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Skild AI, a robotics company building an 鈥渙mni-bodied鈥� brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion...
The first full week of 2026 brought us a whopping $20 billion new funding round for Elon Musk鈥檚 xAI. We also counted multiple other rounds of more...
Forty-six companies founded in the past three years both held or obtained unicorn status in 2025 and raised fresh funding, per SA国际传媒 data...
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In the second installment of a three-part series, guest authors Mark Himmelsbach and Remy Pinson write that while founders are being forced to adapt...
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The startup world seems convinced that we鈥檒l all remake our workflows with AI, but what of our culture 鈥� the intangible connective tissue beneath it...
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While there鈥檚 no single explanation for the decline in investment to consumer-facing product startups, it doesn鈥檛 help that this has been a tough...
Perhaps venture investors wanted to get their term sheets squared away in advance of the holiday season. Or maybe AI, despite all the bubble talk, is...
A startup founded by former Nvidia researchers that鈥檚 鈥渂uilding the brain for humanoid and human-capable robots,鈥� Flexion has raised $50 million in...
Transportation has been an underrepresented sector for venture investors in recent quarters, as money increasingly concentrates in hotter niches such...
For this month鈥檚 edition of 5 Interesting Startup Deals, all the funded companies that caught our eye were hardware-centric, from a medical device...
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