Podcast Episodes

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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6 months, 1 week 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…

6 months, 1 week 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 …

6 months, 1 week 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…

6 months, 1 week 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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6 months, 1 week 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-…

6 months, 1 week 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…

6 months, 1 week ago

A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes; also, New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million

Zehra Naqvi grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s and recently started Lore, a search platform for people to research and discover internet o…

6 months, 1 week ago

How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance

The U.S. government shutdown could stifle deal flow, freeze visa processing for workers, and cause other problems for startups and the broader tech s…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Kevin Hart’s VC firm led $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple, also, Electroflow promises to make LFP material for 40% less than Chinese producers

Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight.

Electroflow drew inspiration from batteries themselves to develop a new wa…

6 months, 2 weeks ago