Arc expands into electric commercial and defense boats with $50M raise |

Los Angeles startup Arc Boat Company wants to expand its nascent commercial business and even sell electric propulsion systems to defense contractors, in an attempt…

Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise |

Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management. This forces people to use multiple tools…

Alphabet’s X has a new spinout, and it’s going after one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares |

For more than a decade, Alphabet’s X moonshot factory has been quietly trying to fix one of the world’s most stubborn industries. It failed twice,…

K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute |

An ambitious satellite builder will launch one of the highest-powered spacecraft ever built in the weeks ahead to demonstrate technology that will be required to…

Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are still open |

8:00 AM PDT · March 19, 2026 Pre-Series Afounders, this is your reminder!Nominations forStartup Battlefield 200are still open, and the arena is already filling up.…

Tools for founders to navigate and move past conflict |

The stakes are high for any founding team, so conflict should be expected, even encouraged. However, company culture is built on real reactions and interactions,…

Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators  |

You’ve more than likely had that moment where you’re sitting with a friend, the conversation is flowing, you’re making each other laugh, maybe even saying…

Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company |

At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking…

The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks |

9:30 AM PDT · March 18, 2026 24 min Artificial intelligencemodels are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space,…

Microsoft hires the team of Sequoia-backed AI collaboration platform, Cove |

8:33 AM PDT · March 18, 2026 The team behind Cove, a Sequoia-backed startup that was working on an AI-powered collaboration board, has joined Microsoft,…