Pegasus Tech Ventures quadruples Japanet venture fund to $200M
Japan has long gone its own way on technology, even inspiring its own term, “Galapagos syndrome,” for products and services ...
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These niche AI startups are trying to protect the Pentagon’s secrets
The relationship between AI companies and the American defense establishment burst into the open earlier this year when Anthropic found ...
a16z-backed Infinite Machine is building e-bikes that feel like mopeds. Cyclists may have qualms
Last week, in Queens, I met up with Infinite Machine CEO Joseph Cohen at his startup’s new vibey office space ...
Blend’s post-IPO reset: CEO Nima Ghamsari bets that AI can turn it all around
Blend’s CEO Nima Ghamsari wants to talk less about the past decade’s fintech sugar high and more about recovering from ...
AI is reshaping the doctor visit—just not how you think
Digital health startups raised $14.2 billion in 2025, up 35% from 2024, with AI‑enabled companies capturing 54% of that capital ...
The one-person unicorn: Myth, miracle, or the future of startups?
Does the one person unicorn exist? Or is it the startup version of a ‘cryptid,’ a mythical creature that is ...
Exclusive: Interloom, a startup unlocking ‘tacit knowledge’ for AI agents, raises $16.5 million
Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.” His ...
Anduril’s new mega‑deal rewrites the rules for Silicon Valley—and raises new risks
Tech defense startups doing business with the U.S. military could someday look back at March 2026 as the month their ...
Unicorns are flush with cash and stuck. A new kind of startup crisis is taking hold in 2026
Some of the most valuable private companies in the world right now have a problem that has nothing to do ...
Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raises $45 million to help big firms keep track of digital assets
As large enterprises invest in blockchain technology, they quickly discover the need for accounting software that can help them track ...
Exclusive: Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raises $100 million
Oro Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate companies’ procurement processes, has raised $100 million in ...
The French AI startup gunning for Workday, Oracle, and SAP
For Eléonore Crespo, the French attitude of “jamais content,” or never happy, is a business strategy, not a stereotype. The ...
DBS partners with Granite Asia to help counter the region’s lack of capital with $110M AI IPO fund
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, and Granite Asia, an Asia-focused investment fund, are launching a new “first-of-its-kind” partnership to support ...
Exclusive: Badge raises $17 million to chase the next era of digital wallets
In antiquity, it was leather pouches for coins. In the Renaissance, it was folding pocketbooks that developed alongside the rise ...
Private equity exit value surged to almost $730 billion in 2025, per PitchBook
The UBS Preview Club in Union Square is a red leather couch-mahogany wood place, and as good a spot as ...
Exclusive: Lawhive, the AI-powered law firm, raises $60 million in new funding
Lawhive, a British startup that wants to use AI to transform the business model of law firms that perform routine ...
Nevada legislator to push for independent audit of altered record in OSHA Boring Co. inspection
Nevada Assemblymember Howard Watts said in an interview that the legislative committee he chairs will “absolutely” look into pursuing an ...
Silicon Valley legend Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up
Independently and immediately, a flood of people reached the same conclusion: This had to be a mistake. It was the ...
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