Investment in consumer tech startups has been in a downturn since 2022, as a turbulent macroeconomic climate and rising inflation have made VCs skittish about…
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Former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla’s startup triples to $100M valuation |
Spangle, an AI e-commerce startup founded by former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla, has raised $15 million in a new funding round, valuing the company at…
CES 2026: Follow live with news from Caterpillar and Nvidia, plus robotaxis, robots, and surprises from the show floor
This new solid-state EV battery can fully charge in just 5 minutes I stopped by the exhibit for Donut Lab, a startup out of Finland…
Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back |
Over the past few days, several posts on LinkedIn and Twitter/X went viral after one of the most talked about AI companies in San Francisco…
Where VCs think AI startups can win, even with OpenAI in the game |
10:53 AM Pst · January 7, 29 min Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year…
VC predicts the consumer AI products OpenAI ‘won’t want to kill’
Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, who’s been investing in…
How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge |
Smart home startup Quilt introduced a three-zone heat pump on Tuesday that promises to maintain efficiency even in the kinds of demanding conditions that stymie…
Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation |
Articul8, an enterprise AI company spun out of Intel in early 2024, has secured more than half of a planned $70 million funding round at…
McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over |
If there is one point of consensus among the CES 2026 keynote speakers, it is that AI is reshaping technology with a speed and scale…
LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product |
11:35 AM Pst · January 6, LMArena, a startup that originally launched as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, announced on Tuesday that it…