A Startup Wants to Drill Three Miles Into the Earth With Microwaves to Power AI Data Centers
MIT spinout Quaise Energy raised $134 million to commercialize millimeter-wave drilling technology that reaches superhot rock, part of a wider…
Category: Funding
A Three-Year-Old Legal AI Startup Just Became a Unicorn by Selling Compliance, Not Contracts
Norm AI raised a $120 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that the…
GoTyme’s Owners Just Wrote Another Check. What the Math Behind It Says About Digital Banking’s Real Cost.
GoTyme's parent companies injected another $13.9 million into the digital bank in July 2026, the second capital top-up in as…
Discord Filed for an IPO in January. By July It Was Worth Less Than Microsoft Once Offered to Pay for It.
Discord's confidential IPO filing has stalled at an implied $8.5 billion secondary-market valuation, below the $12 billion Microsoft offered to…
Chamath Palihapitiya Just Became a Full-Time CEO Again. His New Startup Wants to Replace the Traditional Software Team.
8090 raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its Software Factory platform, where human teams and…
Bain Capital Just Raised $10.5 Billion for Asia. Almost None of It Is Earmarked for Seed-Stage Bets.
Bain Capital closed its sixth Asia fund at $10.5 billion, blowing past its original $7 billion target, a reminder that…
DeepMind’s Drug-Discovery Spinout Just Raised the Biggest Round in AI Biotech History
Isomorphic Labs closed a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital to scale an AlphaFold-derived drug design engine already…
Congress Wants to Let Venture Funds Get Five Times Bigger Before Regulators Notice
The US House passed a bipartisan bill raising the size and investor-count thresholds that let a venture fund skip full…
A Filipino Fintech Just Got Silicon Valley to Lead Its Series A. Here’s Why That’s Rare.
Zed, a Manila-founded credit startup, raised $16.5 million in a Series A led directly by Palo Alto's Accel, an unusually…