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Menlo Ventures has raised $3bn, the biggest haul in its 50-year history. It is funded, in effect, by a single bet on Anthropic that is now worth about $14bn. Most venture funds are sold on a promise. Menlo Ventures’ new $3bn is sold on a receipt. The firm announced the raise on Tuesday, its largest […]
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Walmart is paying a reported $1.4bn for a connected-TV ad startup worth $410m nine months ago. The price tells you how far retailers will now go to catch Amazon in advertising. Walmart has agreed to buy Vibe.co, a connected-TV advertising platform. Two reports peg the deal at $1.4bn. It would be the retailer’s biggest acquisition […]
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For most of Luminvera’s short life, the pitch came with an AR wearable. The company, incorporated in March 2026 and run out of Silicon Valley, started as a bet that the right device could pull an industrial engineer out of what its founder, Lu Yang, likes to call the “2D Stone Age.” A flat monitor […]
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The AI infrastructure startup raised $1.5bn in a Series F, with Australia’s Blackbird VC putting in what may be the largest single outlay yet by an Australian firm. Baseten has raised $1.5bn in a Series F round that values the AI infrastructure startup at up to $13bn, a number that arrives barely 18 months and […]
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Immigrant founders have long played a significant role in U.S. technology, but access to early-stage capital often still depends on local networks, customer introductions and proximity to established investors. That gap has created room for a small number of venture firms focused on immigrant, diaspora and cross-border founders, a category that has grown in recent years. […]
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NeuralTrust, a Barcelona startup, has raised $20mn to secure the AI agents that big companies are now deploying faster than they can keep track of. The seed round, worth €17.2mn, was led by Munich’s Alstin Capital, with VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, the EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund and Finaves, plus public money […]
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The problem with letting an AI agent loose inside a company is not that it might forget who it is. It is that it has no reason to hold back. A human employee is restrained by the fear of being fired. An agent, as one investor in Arcade.dev put it, “will exhaustively exploit every permission […]
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The race to power artificial intelligence has a problem that solar panels and wind turbines cannot fix on their own: the electricity has to be there at 3am, in still air, under cloud. Critical Energy, a Los Angeles startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer, has raised $22mn to chase that always-on demand with geothermal, […]
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Marketing leaders have never had access to more data, yet proving the business impact of advertising has become increasingly difficult. As budgets face greater scrutiny and finance teams demand clearer evidence of return on investment, many chief marketing officers are discovering that traditional performance metrics no longer satisfy the questions being asked in the boardroom. Tal […]
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Meteor.js is one of those open-source projects developers have lived with for years. It has over 44,800 GitHub stars, more than 500,000 active installations worldwide, and still sits inside products across many countries. Behind its largest release in over ten years, Meteor 3.0, is Henrique Schmaiske, CTO of Meteor Software, who started the work in April 2022 […]
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