US venture capital hit a record $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but AI companies absorbed 86% of that capital, and deals over $100 million accounted for 91% of total investment, leaving non-…
Poetic, an enterprise automation startup formerly known as Forge, raised $50 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from OpenAI. The company…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu criticized token leaderboards for ranking engineers by AI token usage, calling them 'directionally correct' but prone to abuse. He argued that companies should instead measure a…
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen called remote work 'white collar fraud' in a podcast interview, saying his company will keep headcount flat while increasing AI spending. The comments sparked online backlas…
German translation startup DeepL acquired Mixhalo, a real-time audio platform for live events, to enhance its voice translation capabilities and expand into the live event space. Mixhalo, founded by I…
SpaceX's IPO closed up 19%, pushing its valuation above $2 trillion in a historic debut, but the windfall is concentrated among top-tier VCs and asset managers, highlighting a bifurcated venture marke…
SpaceX's IPO is delivering massive returns to a select group of venture capital firms, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Valor Equity Partners, and DFJ Growth, which invested earl…
The Iran-USA war escalates as President Trump threatens strikes on Kharg Island, risking oil supply disruption and higher prices. The conflict threatens a critical IPO and adds macroeconomic pressure …
Nearly 90 venture capital firms and money managers have invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a WIRED analysis of PitchBook data, revealing an unusual overlap between the rival AI labs. …
Founders Fund launched a new YouTube and X show Thursday featuring 12 Silicon Valley figures, including Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and Bryan Johnson, playing the deception game Mafia at San Francisco'…
Impulse Space, a startup founded by former SpaceX engine expert Tom Mueller, raised $500 million in Series D funding to hire up to 200 new employees for building and testing spacecraft. The company, w…
Cognition AI closed a Series D round exceeding $1 billion, raising its valuation to $26 billion from $10.2 billion in September 2025, as the maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin more than double…
Cognition, the AI coding firm behind the developer agent Devin, raised more than $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, according to a company blog post and reporting by Bloomberg and Axios. The compa…
Cognition, the developer of the autonomous AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation on Wednesday, a sharp increase from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation…
Stord raised $250 million in Series F funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund and others, to expand its "physical intelligence" …