Food delivery startup Wonder files for IPO as it explores its next big bite |

9:11 AM PST · November 5, 2026 Food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company after confidentially filing for an…

A YC startup is putting $1M behind 5 unsolved materials science problems for AI |

Discovered Materials, a months-old San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips, announced a million-dollar challenge for AI models…

Finding New Drugs Is Laborious. This AI Startup Is Skipping The Lab Work

A new British startup believes that artificial intelligence is the key to speedrunning the slow and temperamental process of drug design. Potential Sciences plans to…

AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges |

In Brief Posted: 11:34 AM PST · November 3, 2026 Fal, a San Francisco-based startup that hosts and runs AI video, image, and audio models,…

Yvonne Bajela is bringing $17M in fresh capital to Europe's startup scene |

Yvonne Bajela knew it was time to launch her own fund. She spent more than a decade as a VC, most recently at LocalGlobe and…

Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune |

In Brief Posted: 4:21 PM PDT · October 30, 2026 Salesforce has agreed to acquire Rune Technologies, a startup that builds AI software to help…

Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out |

AI infrastructure company Runware is making news again, just months after unveiling the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular data center built in a factory and…

Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy |

Here’s another early-stage, agent-management startup to watch because of the backgrounds of the founders and the sheer number of big names it has already attracted…

Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs |

As the AI boom strains computing capacity, Nvidia has backed Indian startup Simplismart in a $14 million funding round, betting on software that helps companies…

Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels |

In Brief Posted: 9:26 AM PDT · October 23, 2026 Daytona Platforms announced on Friday that it had raised a $60 million Series B round…