ZincFive Secures $30 Million to Support AI-Era Data Center Resilience
ZincFive closed an oversubscribed $30M Series F to expand production of its zinc-based battery systems for mission-critical data centers. As AI workloads drive unprecedented demand…
Ply secures $8.5M to automate inventory for the trades, partners with Ferguson Ventures
What stands out in this raise isn’t the number itself—$8.5 million is tidy but not flashy—it’s the signal. When Ferguson Ventures leads a round, it’s…
LizzyAI Secures $5M to Rebuild the Interview From the Ground Up
LizzyAI just pulled in a fresh $5 million seed round, led by NEA with Speedinvest and Zero Prime Ventures joining in, and the timing feels…
When Open Source Meets Custom Silicon: Red Hat and AWS Shift the AI Infrastructure Game
Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) just tightened their partnership in a way that hints at where large-scale AI is actually heading, especially for…
Sokin Secures $50M Series B to Scale Global Payments Ambitions
Sometimes a funding announcement lands that feels less like another step in the fintech hype cycle and more like a company finally hitting the moment…
Tutor Intelligence Raises $34M to Scale Human-Like Warehouse Robots
Something about this story feels like a milestone — not hype, not sci-fi polish, but one of those subtle turning points where an idea stops…
Harmonic Reaches Unicorn Status as Mathematical Superintelligence Moves Into the Real World
There’s a certain shift happening in AI right now — one that feels quieter than the hype around chatbots and image generators, yet arguably far…
CoPlane Raises $14M: Reinventing the Most Boring — and Most Expensive — Part of Enterprise Software
There’s a certain irony in how much money the world spends on software that barely anyone loves. ERP systems are the backbone of industrials, healthcare,…
Google Cloud Secures New NATO Cloud Contract: Sovereign AI Meets Military-Grade Security
Sometimes a press release lands that doesn’t feel routine corporate PR, but rather a quiet signal shift in global digital power structures. This one sits…
Profluent’s $106 Million Raise Marks a Turning Point for Programmable Biology
There’s a moment every so often in tech where you can almost feel the ground shifting beneath the industry, and Profluent’s newly announced $106 million…
Cloudera EVOLVE25: Unified AI Data Access Takes Center Stage in Dubai
Something about today’s announcement from Cloudera feels like the moment the market finally stops pretending that scattered data strategies are sustainable. The company rolled out…
A New Wave of Korean Innovation Heads Toward ASEAN and Oceania
Over the past few months, eleven Korean startups have been doing exactly that through the 2025 Korea IT Cooperation Center (KICC) ICT Growth Program—a government-backed…
Federato Secures $100M to Rewrite the Future of Insurance in the Age of AI
It feels like the insurance industry has finally hit its acceleration moment. Federato — the company that keeps describing itself as *AI-native* rather than just…
Infracost Raises $15M to Bring Real-Time Cloud Cost Visibility Directly Into Developer Workflows
Cloud spending is accelerating fast, moving toward a trillion-dollar annual market. That growth comes not only from new workloads but from the shift in how…
When Your Phone Thinks It’s Drowning: The Curious Case of the Samsung A12 Moisture Warning
Every now and then my Samsung A12 throws a tiny digital tantrum, flashing a moisture alert and refusing to charge like it’s just been rescued…
Milestone Developer Summit 2025, November 2025, Copenhagen
There was something quietly electrifying about watching the Carlsberg Museum slip from its usual calm into a pulsing hub of video technologists, AI researchers, platform…
Palantir’s Anti-College Internship: Why Silicon Valley Is Rewriting the Rules of Talent
There’s something strangely captivating about watching a giant like Palantir toss a rhetorical grenade into the polite world of higher education and then calmly invite…
Tradespace Acquires Paragon: The Next Step Toward AI-Native Intellectual Property
There’s an interesting shift happening in how ideas move from the spark of invention to real, defensible intellectual property, and the announcement that Tradespace has…
Breaking the CUDA Barrier: Spectral Compute Raises $6M to Let AI Run Anywhere
There’s a particular tension right now in high-performance computing circles, the kind that feels a bit like everyone is standing in the same checkout line…
Glasswing Ventures Fund III and the Shape of What Comes Next
There’s a certain energy you can almost feel when a market hits its moment, and Glasswing Ventures is clearly betting that we’re standing right on…
Smartoptics Joins the IOWN Global Forum
There’s something quietly momentous about a company deciding to step into a broader conversation, especially when the conversation is about the future backbone of how…
EdgeCortix Raises Over $110M in Oversubscribed Series B, Signaling Rising Confidence in Energy-Efficient Edge AI
There’s a sense that the AI hardware race is beginning to split into two tracks. On one side, hyperscale datacenter accelerators keep getting larger, hotter,…
Workday Completes Acquisition of Sana: Building the AI Front Door for Work
Workday has officially completed its acquisition of Sana, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise AI. The deal transforms Workday from a financial…
Microsoft and IREN Ink $9.7 Billion AI Cloud Infrastructure Deal
A deal of staggering scale has just been sealed between Microsoft and IREN Limited, marking one of the largest GPU infrastructure commitments to date in…