Funding, founders, and the companies trying to build the next big thing.
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Startups Sep 15, 2026 Cornelis Networks has secured $205M to scale its open-standard fabrics, taking direct aim at Nvidia's high-margin InfiniBand monopoly in hyperscale AI clusters.
Startups Sep 13, 2026 Inference startup d-Matrix will integrate Nvidia's NVLink interconnect into its AI server architecture, proving that in 2026, memory fabrics beat raw silicon.
Startups Aug 31, 2026 With private venture capital plunging to decade lows, Singapore is injecting S$220M into high-risk fintech. Here is how state capital aims to reshape the sector.
Startups Jul 28, 2026 Quantum computing faces a critical interconnect bottleneck. ZuriQ's $25.5M funding aims to solve physical qubit routing through a novel 2D planar array.
Startups Jul 22, 2026 Airbus is anchoring a massive €500M defense tech venture fund, signaling Europe's shift toward sovereign militaries. Its first deal highlights AI warfare.
Startups Jul 22, 2026 London-based robotics firm Humanoid raised $152 million in Series A funding at a $1.35 billion valuation. European physical AI is mounting a serious challenge.
Startups Jul 18, 2026 Leaked emails and whistleblower documents reveal how a prominent diabetes startup silenced its chief medical officer to push unvalidated AI onto vulnerable patients.
Startups Jul 16, 2026 Syntetica's $30M Series A highlights a major shift in materials science. Can its low-energy depolymerization tech finally make synthetic textiles fully circular?
Startups Jul 10, 2026 Kraken Autonomy just joined the unicorn club with a massive $175M funding round. While self-driving cars stall, the maritime AI revolution is officially setting sail.
Startups Jun 22, 2026 Edge-inference startup Spiro secured $320 million in Series C capital led by NewTrails. The round pushes the robotics silicon designer into unicorn status.
Startups Jun 9, 2026 As enterprises grapple with ballooning AI infrastructure costs, PointFive just secured $60M to bring much-needed financial discipline to machine learning deployments. This massive funding round signals a critical shift towards optimizing every dollar spent on AI, moving beyond raw compute power to intelligent efficiency.
Startups Jun 9, 2026 St. Petersburg-based Halcyon Nuclear secured fresh venture capital to commercialize molten-salt thorium reactors, bypassing critical bottlenecks in uranium supply.
