Physical AI startups raised $47.4 billion across 521 deals in H1 2026, up nearly 80% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase. Castelion, a hypersonic weapons startup, closed over $1 billion in Se…
Venture capital investment in Physical AI startups, including robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, and industrial automation, surged to $47.4 billion in the first half of 2026, an 80% increase ye…
At Actuate, a sold-out robotics conference in San Francisco, 1,500 attendees gathered, but robots were scarce, highlighting a hardware shortage. Robotics startups raised a record $15 billion globally …
Jeff Park, a partner at ParaFi Capital, which manages over $1.9 billion in assets, said on social media that AI-driven wealth creation will ultimately benefit Bitcoin, predicting that capital will fle…
Anand Arivukkarasu, a former Meta product leader, has developed a framework called the Supply Chain of Intelligence to explain where durable competitive advantage accrues in AI. The framework, publish…
Global venture funding hit a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217 billion (43%), and 72% of US cyber deals through May 2026 involved AI-enabled …
A new dataset from Mentalium Research catalogues 542 digital mental health startups that left the market between 2000 and 2026, coded on 18 fields including business model, payer, funding, and reason …
Spur Intelligence announced on July 28, 2026 that Insight Partners has led a $200 million investment in the company, one of the largest single checks written for a cybersecurity startup this year. The…
A developer measured 172 AI source citations across four software categories and found that SaaS directories like G2, Capterra, and Product Hunt received only one citation total. Reddit dominated with…
Global venture funding hit a record ~$300 billion in Q1 2026, but 65% of that went to just four AI companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — which together raised $188 billion, according to Crun…
Founders Feed, a daily newsletter for startup founders, highlights Supabase's launch of Realtime v3, which supports 100k concurrent connections per node with per-channel auth and usage-based pricing, …
Global startup investment hit $510 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing the $440 billion full-year record set in 2025, with over 70% of capital going to AI-focused companies, according to Cru…
Retriever has launched an in-browser agentic dataset enrichment tool that lets users bulk-enrich any webpage, such as a conference attendee list, with LinkedIn profiles and work emails, then score and…
Anthropic's Claude Code can be used with Clay's data enrichment platform to build an automated pipeline that finds prospects, enriches profiles, and writes personalized cold outreach emails at scale, …
AI companies captured 65% of US venture dollars in 2025, but the funding is concentrated in megadeals while small seed rounds shrank 20%. Only about one in six seed-stage AI startups reaches a Series …
SpaceXAI released a new AI model, while major tech companies reshape the benchmark conversation amid a decline in AI confidence. London sees increased AI investment, with Mistral opening an office and…
Data products standardize raw data sets, warehouse views, and data lake logical views to deliver analytics and AI capabilities, streamlining data pipelines, governance, and management. Experts recomme…
SEO priorities are shifting as AI search gains prominence, with brand authority, topical depth, and unlinked mentions becoming more critical, while traditional keyword optimization and backlink buildi…
Snowflake Marketplace partners earned over $100 million in gross bookings revenue in the first half of 2026, a 277% year-over-year increase, driven by over 1,700 transactions. The growth reflects a sh…
Sazabi, an AI-native observability startup founded by former Brex and Crunchbase engineer Sherwood Callaway, raised an $8 million seed round co-led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator. Th…