Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have rewarded it with $200 million.
Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows. While AI giant OpenAI is by far the busiest of these buyers, well-funded…
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.
Ghost’s first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person’s behalf.
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Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far this year, it still exceeded every other quarter since Q2 2022. We take a look at where the funding went.
Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what’s next for it.
Buoyed by some commendatory early reviews and fantastic initial player numbers, Gears of War: E-Day has found a solid audience a weekend before general release.
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This week’s list of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds was pretty much all about AI. That includes the biggest financing — a $1 billion round for Instinct, a developer of AI assistants for everyday tasks — as well as most of the rest of the Top 10.
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