Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech
Focused Energy recently raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round, one of the largest early-stage rounds for a fusion…
Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform
In the social event planner’s first major move toward monetization, Partiful is getting ticketing directly in the app.
Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises $20M, has already sold thousands
Board, the three-year-old, New York-based startup building what it calls “together tech” — tech designed to bring people physically into…
How Europe’s AI strategy diverges from Silicon Valley’s
The global AI race is often framed as a battle between the United States and China. But at VivaTech, Europe…
How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless
Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes to pitch and…
Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation, a 4x jump in a year
Mach Industries, the three-year-old defense tech startup run by 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, has raised a $300 million…
From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?
Some of the most consequential companies in tech history didn’t launch with a splashy fundraising announcement. They started with a…
Revolut rolls out services to thousands of users in India ahead of broader launch
British fintech Revolut has quietly begun rolling out its services in India as part of a controlled beta program ahead…
‘This is fine’ artist KC Green reaches agreement with AI startup Artisan
After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green — creator of the famous “This is…
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis
Box founder Aaron Levie got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely…