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Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves

Science can already tell you what a molecule is and what it looks like. What it has never been able to tell you, cheaply and at scale, is how the thing behaves once it meets the messy conditions of the real world. That gap is where drugs quietly fail in trials, where food products miss […]

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Applied Aerospace & Defense raises $650M in an IPO the market wanted ten times over

The appetite was the story. Applied Aerospace & Defense priced its initial public offering on Tuesday at $20 a share, raising $650M, and by the time the book closed the deal was said to be about ten times oversubscribed. A company that makes fuselage sections and solid rocket motor cases does not usually inspire that […]

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DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn

DeepSeek has spent eighteen months as the most talked-about AI lab that almost nobody could invest in. That is about to change. The Chinese startup is slated to raise roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in its first external funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would value it […]

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Flok Health raises $12.5M to scale an AI physiotherapist the NHS lets work unsupervised

The Cambridge clinic has regulatory approval to triage, treat and discharge patients without a human in the loop. Now it wants to do the same for hip, knee and pelvic-health conditions. The unusual thing about Flok Health is not that an AI runs a physiotherapy appointment. It is that the NHS has signed off on […]

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Megaport raises A$827M to build a distributed AI cloud and chase the inference market

Megaport spent a decade as a company you used to connect to other people’s clouds. On Wednesday it announced a plan to become one. The Australian networking firm secured four new AI infrastructure contracts worth a combined A$458.9M (about $329M) and launched a fully underwritten entitlement offer to raise A$827.3M (about $594M), according to its filing. […]

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Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry

A cement kiln is one of the least forgiving machines in industry. It runs at fourteen hundred degrees, it cannot easily be stopped, and the software deciding its fuel mix and oxygen levels is often older than the engineers tending it. Gigaton wants to throw that software out and let an AI run the kiln […]

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A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle

701x, a Fargo-based agricultural technology company, has closed an oversubscribed Series B round exceeding $10 million, funded entirely by local investors from North Dakota and Minnesota and rancher-customers across the United States. No venture capital firm or institutional investor participated. The company has also hit its first profitable month and is preparing to launch in […]

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SpaceX’s first employee just raised $500 million for the company that moves satellites once rockets put them in the wrong orbit

Impulse Space, the orbital transfer vehicle startup founded by Tom Mueller, has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $4.26 billion. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and Banner VC, with participation from existing investors including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Linse Capital. The company has now raised […]

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Vinted Ventures backs Tilt’s $26M live-commerce round as Whatnot pressure mounts

Tilt’s $26M raise, the first Vinted Ventures cheque into a live-commerce platform, looks like a defensive move against the Whatnot expansion threatening Vinted’s European resale base. Tilt, the London-based live-auction app founded by two early Revolut employees, has raised $26m in fresh funding with Vinted Ventures joining as a new investor alongside existing backers TQ […]

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Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI

Gigascale Capital, the venture firm led by former Meta chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, has raised a $250 million fund to invest in energy, grid infrastructure, and critical minerals startups. The fund, announced on Monday, is Gigascale’s second and its first to include institutional investors. It arrives as most of the venture capital industry has pivoted […]

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