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HaloBraid raises $7M for first robotic hair braiding assistant

HaloBraid, an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, raised $7 million in seed funding led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven…

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Luminvera bets on immersive robotics software

Luminvera pivoted from developing an augmented reality headset to focusing exclusively on B2B software for the robotics industry, shelving its…

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Former Hacker Now Aims to Collect All the Light

Dan Roelker, a 48-year-old tech entrepreneur with a background in hacking, video games, SpaceX, crypto, and NFTs, now focuses on…

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Astral Systems raises £23M to produce cancer-fighting isotopes

Astral Systems raised £23mn in Series A funding led by Mercia Ventures to scale production of medical isotopes for cancer…

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Nearfield Instruments lands record $380M chip funding

Nearfield Instruments, a Dutch firm specializing in atomic force microscopy for semiconductor inspection, raised $380 million at a $1.6 billion…

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Tsuga raises $35M for private cloud AI observability

Paris-based startup Tsuga, founded by former Datadog veterans, raised $35 million in Series A funding to challenge per-byte observability pricing,…

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TensorX raises €8M for European AI inference on Nvidia Blackwell

TensorX raised €8 million to purchase Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, including B300 chips, for a GDPR-compliant AI inference platform that keeps…

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US Military Space Exercise Launches Quietly Under the Radar

Rocket Lab conducted a discreet launch from New Zealand on Friday, deploying a satellite for a US Space Force exercise…

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Spiro Raises $55M From China’s NewTrails, Nears $1B Valuation

Spiro addresses the key challenge of charging time in Africa's motorcycle fleet by using battery swapping stations, allowing riders to…

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Europe’s AI startups lack confidence, not talent, says Lovable CEO

Lovable CEO Anton Osika argues Europe's AI challenge is a "confidence deficit" rather than a talent shortage, challenging the belief…

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Seedcamp raises $320M to build a transatlantic bridge

Seedcamp has raised a new $320 million fund to continue its early-stage investment strategy, focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage startups.…

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Kazakh Fund-of-Funds Backs Central Asia’s Startup Boom

Alem Capital Management anchored the final close of Sturgeon Capital's $25 million Emerging Opportunities II fund, making its first public…

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Founder Summit Pass Rates Rise June 26

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 takes place on November 4 in Boston, gathering over 1,000 founders and investors for a day…

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Prosper AI secures $30M from a16z to automate patient journey

Prosper AI raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to deploy AI-powered phone agents that automate…

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Uber’s Lime IPO: Scooter Firm Gets Key Anchor Investor

Uber is acting as a key anchor investor in Lime's upcoming IPO, with the ride-hailing giant already holding over 10%…

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London’s Isometric raises $40M for AI industrial certification

London-based Isometric raised $40 million in Series A funding to use AI-powered systems for modernizing industrial certification, replacing slow manual…

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Polymarket Viral Win Clips Are Often Fake, Experts Warn

A "Wall Street Journal" investigation found Polymarket paid individuals to create over 1,100 deceptive social media clips showing fake bets,…

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Why Your 2019 Content Strategy Is Now Hurting You

Treating content frameworks as finished products limits growth; they should be updated as new data emerges, as illustrated by a…

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How One Client Experience Made Laura Abreu Quit Google Ads

Laura Abreu's early PPC career taught her that great marketing cannot fix a weak business model; after three months of…

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Aether AI secures $20M for causal world model development

Aether AI has secured a $20 million seed round to build AI based on understanding cause and effect, challenging the…

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