Fusion energy has been “20 years away” for decades, but hasthe sciencefinallycaughtup? Private investment in fusion companiessurged from$10 billionto$15billionin just months, and the money is…
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From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now? |
Some of the most consequential companies in tech history didn’t launch with a splashy fundraising announcement. They started with a pitch. Dropbox demoed to a…
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter. |
AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins — the molecules that…
Cathie Wood’s ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI |
ARK Invest Venture Fund has made its first-ever lead investment in an early-stage startup called Lucra, firm founder Cathie Wood told TechCrunch. “We feel pretty…
SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B |
3:58 PM PDT · April 21, 2026 SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI,”…
AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO |
In Brief Posted: 12:19 PM PDT · April 18, 2026 Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware…
From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product |
12:50 PM PDT · April 16, 2026 For a successful deep tech startup, the laboratory breakthrough is only the first step. To spin out an…
VTT-originated startup Proteins.1 launches to bring PCR-like amplification and simplicity to omics
/PRNewswire/ — New Finnish deep-tech company aims to make ultra-early disease detection possible through single-molecule protein amplification, enabling the identification of molecular warning signals long…
Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D’Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system: People who felt…
This Khosla-backed autonomous pod startup just raised $170M — now it's aiming for more |
In Brief Posted: 10:46 AM PDT · April 15, 2026 Glydways, a San Francisco-based startup developing personal autonomous pods designed to operate on dedicated 2-meter-wide…