Startups News

• Khosla Ventures backs AI science startup Discovery Loop founded by former Google leaders
• Early Anthropic investor Anjney Midha blasts traditional venture capital for missing AI revolution
• UK bets on a boom in AI chip newcomers with government funding
• AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
• Founder who raised $1B shares what VCs actually want in fundraising
• Patreon admits discovery problem for small creators, launches 30 new features including Clips
• Agility Robotics CEO discusses plans to go public and China rivals
• Hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises $1B at $13B valuation
• Runlayer and Rippling drop lawsuits, but cautionary tale remains
• Linkdaze launches smart calendar designed for household management
• Mayfield invests over $3 billion in AI, betting on earliest-stage founders
• Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner
• TechCrunch unveils the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 list of promising early-stage startups
• Muon Space raises $250M at $1.5B valuation for satellite manufacturing
• a16z says AI gives foreign founders a competitive advantage through its Borderless Founder network
• AI workload optimization startup Callosum raises $100M
• Unitree founder says humanoid robots are nearing a 'ChatGPT moment', predicts mass market within a decade
• How teen entrepreneurs built MyPlots, a party-promotion empire in LA
• Q&A with Xynova CEO on developing human-like robot hands
• LeadShine executive says China shortened humanoid robot development cycle from years to months
• Travis Kalanick says only 1% of venture capitalists are helpful
• AI chip startup Fractile in talks for $6.5B valuation after Anthropic supply deal
• Ramp Co-CEO says AI spending surged 21x in a year, company valued at $44B
• Rivian spinout Also raises $150M, with e-bike as the wedge for autonomous delivery vehicles
• Sachin Bansal's Navi raises $100M from Prosus at a lower valuation than sought
• Startup helps Wall Street put a price on AI compute as data center spending surges
• Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round
• Relativity Networks raises $22M to bring hollow-core fiber to data centers
• Temporal aims to raise $500M at $12B valuation, doubling its February valuation
• Inference chip startup Etched raises another $700M at $21B valuation