#Startups
Curated coverage on «Startups»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.

Mind Robotics Raises $500M for Industrial AI Robots
The startup founded by Rivian creator RJ Scaringe raised half a billion dollars to develop AI robots and deploy them in manufacturing.

Sandbar raises $23M for AI ring
Startup Sandbar closed a $23 million Series A round to bring Stream — a smart ring with note-taking, AI assistant and media player features — to market this summer.

Italian startup raises $4.2M for autonomous vessels
Mirai Robotics from Apulia raised pre-seed funding to build software-controlled ships and maritime AI.

Anthropic Faces Sanctions Threat as Pentagon Labels Company a Security Risk

Oracle and OpenAI cancel plans to expand flagship data center

City Detect raises $13 million for AI in urban safety and cleanliness

Dorsey laid off 40% of staff to rebuild Block around AI

SoftBank takes out a record $40 billion loan for a stake in OpenAI
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank is preparing the largest dollar-denominated loan in its history — up to $40 billion. Almost the entire amount will go toward…

DiligenceSquared replaces consultants with voice AI agents in M&A deals
Startup DiligenceSquared offers private equity funds a way to conduct due diligence without expensive consultants, using voice AI agents that interview customers of…

Luma launches creative AI agents powered by Unified Intelligence models

Skaro: how one developer built a full-cycle AI orchestrator through sleepless nights

Lio raises $30M from a16z to automate corporate procurement

Nvidia pulls back from OpenAI and Anthropic: what Jensen Huang is hiding

AI-native investment thesis: how venture capital is betting on a new generation of companies
Glasswing Ventures founder Rudina Seseri explains why the future of venture investing belongs to companies where AI is built into the architecture from day one…

Cardiff-based Antiverse raises $9.3M for AI antibody discovery
Welsh biotech startup Antiverse has closed a $9.3 million Series A round to scale a platform that uses AI to develop therapeutic antibodies. The funds will go…









