Podcast Episodes

Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8B; also,

Kalshi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, announced that it raised over three hundred million dollars at a 5 billion do…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed fron…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production; and Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams

Novoloop has signed a deal with a contract manufacturer to produce its Lifecycled TPU material.

Also, Knapsack creates a unified workspace that integ…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere

Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States.

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for GM, Ford, and lots of startups

Trump's Department of Energy wants to cancel billions more in awards that were granted by the Biden administration, and startups are in the crosshair…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built

By coating regular rebar with a thin layer of stainless steel, Allium Engineering could reduce the amount of concrete needed to build a bridge while …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse; also, ÄIO invented a method to make edible fat from ag waste like sawdust

The third-party app store known as AltStore, one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union, is preparing t…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his AI memory startup, Supermemory

19-year-old Dhravya Shah, who is originally from Mumbai, has built a memory layer for AI applications with Google's AI chief's backing.

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund

Heidi Health raised a $65 million Series B led by Steven Cohen’s Point72.

Also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund to invest in MIT early-…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos; plus, If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs

Social event planning app Partiful, which calls itself “Facebook events for hot people,” has firmly replaced Facebook as the go-to platform for sendi…

4 months, 3 weeks ago