Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that solve the AI inference bottleneck…
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Geothermal startup Fervo catapults itself over the ‘valley of death’ |
In Brief Posted: 11:26 AM PDT · March 19, 2026 Enhanced geothermal has had a promising few years, nudged forward by data centers’ insatiable demand…
Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are still open |
8:00 AM PDT · March 19, 2026 Pre-Series Afounders, this is your reminder!Nominations forStartup Battlefield 200are still open, and the arena is already filling up.…
Exclusive: Samsung bets this island startup can tame the grid with software and batteries |
The electrical grid has changed more in the last decade than in the preceding five. Solar, wind, and batteries have pushed power generation away from…
Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B |
In Brief Posted: 10:47 AM PDT · March 16, 2026 Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP…
Before quantum computing arrives, this startup wants enterprises already running on it |
Eighteen months after selling his startup to chipmaker AMD for $665 million, Finnish entrepreneur Peter Sarlin has left his role as CEO of the unit…
Sales automation startup Rox AI hits $1.2B valuation, sources say |
3:25 PM PDT · March 12, 2026 Rox, a startup developing autonomous AI agents to boost sales productivity, has raised a new funding round valuing…
Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch |
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is…
Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought |
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a company that builds software to automate customer service interactions, the companies announced on Wednesday. The deal is expected to close…
EV startup Harbinger reveals a smaller work truck with electric and hybrid variants |
Los Angeles-based EV startup Harbinger has revealed its second vehicle: a smaller, medium-duty work truck. Called the HC Series Cab, the new truck will be…