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IEEE Entrepreneurship is positioning itself as a connector between hard-tech founders, investors, and service providers as hardware startups continue to face longer R&D cycles, manufacturing hurdles, and chronic funding압

TechCrunch’s timeline of Slate Auto shows an unusual EV startup trying to break through a difficult U.S. market with a customizable low-cost electric pickup and backing from Jeff Bezos and Mark Walter.

TechCrunch has opened a final 24-hour push for discounted passes to Disrupt 2026, outlining an event built around startup showcases, investor access, tactical sessions, and curated networking in San Francisco this fall.

MassRobotics says it will use the 2026 Robotics Summit to spotlight resident startups, physical AI companies, healthcare robotics, women in robotics, and university teams.

After spending years concentrating on existing portfolios, biotech venture capital firms are beginning to fund new opportunities again, signaling a cautious return to risk in the sector.

Venture firm Eclipse has closed $1.3 billion in fresh capital and says it will use the money to back and build startups that apply AI to transportation, energy, infrastructure, compute, and defense.

A new funding wave around artificial intelligence is concentrating capital in a small group of U.S. companies, reversing a period when startup investment had spread more broadly across global tech hubs.

MIT Technology Review spotlights OpenSnow, a ski-focused forecasting app built from government data, proprietary AI models, and years of mountain expertise, offering a case study in highly specialized software innovation

OpenSnow has grown from a tiny forecast operation into a trusted weather service for skiers by combining government data, in-house AI models, and human forecasters whose local knowledge has become part of the product.

Uber's founder Travis Kalanick has launched a new company called Atoms, absorbing his CloudKitchens ghost kitchen venture and expanding into robotics, mining, and transportation automation.

A startup called Donut Lab claims to have achieved a significant advance in solid-state battery technology, a long-sought holy grail that could transform electric vehicles and energy storage. But the company now faces the hardest part: convincing a skeptical industry that the breakthrough is real.

A new initiative called Material Scale combines venture capital and project finance to help climate technology startups bridge the perilous gap between prototype and commercial production. The fund will initially target the apparel industry's sustainability challenges.