The company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger |

The fitness industry is consolidating fast — and the latest deal is one of the biggest yet. Playlist, the parent company behind fitness brands Booker,…

Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles |

To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model. Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous…

Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups |

Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them. The AI video generation startup has launched…

Delve whistleblower strikes again, with alleged receipts about ‘fake compliance’ |

In Brief Posted: 11:26 AM PDT · March 30, 2026 A day after Delve’s founder and CEO Karun Kaushik published a lengthy post on X…

What we’re looking for in Startup Battlefield 2026 and how to put your best application forward |

Every year I read through thousands of Startup Battlefield applications. And every year, I see the same pattern: The founders who belong on this stage…

ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand |

AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs…

Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales |

As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a…

Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI |

In Brief Posted: 9:11 AM PDT · March 28, 2026 Earlier this month, it looked like all but two of Elon Musk’s 11 co-founders at…

Cents Raises $140 Million from Sumeru Equity Partners to Support and Drive Innovation for Laundry SMBs

Series C Funding Represents the Largest Software Investment Ever Made in the Vertical and Positions Cents as the Defining Platform, Elevating the Laundry Vertical and…

From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day |

Investors have flocked to Y Combinator’s Demo Days for years to get their hands on promising startups building cool tech. After all, the accelerator has…