Startups News

• Mark Wahlberg to appear at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss investing and entrepreneurship
• Japanese startup MW offers homes with built-in robotic housekeeping arms
• Energy startup Furo raises $4M from US backers after founders move back to Germany
• Proxima Fusion bets €140M on high-temperature superconducting magnet factory
• Skild AI reaches $100M revenue run rate with robots that learn from a single video
• India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content
• Brazilian ID-verification firm Unico acquires Argentina's Valida
• Maven Robotics raises $100M Series A to scale industrial robots for palletizing and tote handling
• Musk's Boring Company raises $3B at $23B valuation in UAE-led round
• Defense tech startup Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B after $600M Series C
• TAR raises $120M at $1B valuation for off-grid AI data center power
• Europe's tech leaders warn against watering down EU Inc landmark reform with 100 days left
• Grab in talks to acquire majority stake in SoftBank-backed fintech Atome Financial
• AMD-backed South Korean AI startup Upstage considers pre-IPO funding round
• Alibaba leads $300M investment in AI training startup UniPat AI at $2.5B valuation
• Listen Labs walks away from $1.5B Series C term sheet for potential Salesforce talks
• Legal AI startup Harvey raises $550M at $15.5B valuation, acquires Guardrails AI
• Sequoia backs Cymphony's $30M Series A as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
• Andreessen- and Thiel-backed defense startup Covenant opens US missile factory as it exits stealth
• Uber invests $10M in Indian fleet operator Carrum at $168M valuation
• Stealth startup Kepler Computing claims to hack the memory shortage with new chip design
• Besxar builds orbital semiconductor factory, launching one SpaceX rocket at a time
• Cofertility lets women freeze eggs for free in exchange for donating half to the company
• Samsung-backed MangoBoost turns profitable on AI data center demand
• CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing bottlenecks
• Paytm pivots to workplace AI agents in push beyond core payments business
• Ramp in early talks for $60B valuation funding round, Bloomberg reports
• The Exploration Company raises $450M Series C for Nyx capsule, crewed spacecraft, and reusable rocket
• Celero raises $275M led by Alphabet's CapitalG for data center networking chips
• Floating nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round for barge-based power