Lululemon backs nylon-recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A |

Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling…

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M |

In Brief Posted: 12:46 PM PDT · July 15, 2026 Neko Health, the body-scanning and health assessment startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above,…

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations |

Livestream shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning company that specializes in real-time recommendation and search systems. The deal…

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models |

AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that…

Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media |

A new iOS app called Reelful uses AI to automatically turn photos and video clips from your camera roll into polished TikTok- and Instagram Reels-style…

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C |

Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in…

Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse |

Physical badges used to be all you needed for identity management at a company. But with humans now working alongside machines and AI agents in…

DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO |

DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut, but it could come as early as the end of this…

Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids |

If you remember racing home after school to grab the family landline to call your best friend before dinner, a new device from Pinwheel is…

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation |

4:31 PM PDT · July 13, 2026 Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by…