The Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at Disrupt 2026 |

Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made Startup Battlefield. Only 20 will pitch on the Disrupt Stage across all three days.Competition goes from October 13-15…

Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America |

7:00 AM PDT · October 3, 2026 Neko Health seems to be the hottest body scan in the world right now. The scan, co-founded by…

Kevin Mandia's new 'agent swarm' security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation |

In Brief Posted: 2:55 PM PDT · October 1, 2026 Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant, which sold to Google…

This startup wants to turn idle car inventory into rental revenue |

When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he sees a wasted opportunity. “Millions and millions of used cars are sitting on parking lots,…

Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses |

6:00 AM PDT · October 1, 2026 Hearing tech startup Legato announced on Thursday that its flagship AI-based hearing glasses are now available for purchase.…

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation |

In Brief Posted: 2:07 PM PDT · September 30, 2026 Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50…

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B |

In Brief Posted: 11:23 AM PDT · September 30, 2026 Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion…

Exclusive: Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140M |

Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors to capture data and generate insights…

Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026 |

Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting…

Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers |

If there is one thing robotics founders and investors agree on, it’s that the “ChatGPT moment” where a general-purpose robot can seamlessly adapt to any…