Some companies want their humanoid robots to fold your clothes. Others want them in the workplace. Sankaet Pathak and his startup Foundation Future Industries have…
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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…
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names |
In Brief Posted: 10:43 AM PDT · June 17, 2026 Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers CEO Oliver Cameron and…
Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple |
In Brief Posted: 8:35 AM PDT · June 16, 2026 African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave announced Tuesday a Series E round that values the company…
Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware |
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atech, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable…
Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: 'I was duped and feel silly' |
Silicon Valley tends to tolerate a certain amount of founder exaggeration when pitching investors, often dismissing it as part of selling a vision. But some…
Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
Anthropic has come out against a proposed Illinois law backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability if their systems are used to…
Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs |
Anthropic and OpenAI may be rivals, but their presidents Daniela Amodei and Gregory Brockman have one thing in common: they are both Stripe alumni. With…
Israel’s famed VC Jon Medved, diagnosed with ALS, backed the tech that will improve his life |
Years ago, when venture capitalist Jon Medved took an interest in backing various health tech startups, he had no idea that one day, he would…