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Convective Capital has raised an $85 million fund and broadened its focus from wildfire technology to a wider resilience thesis tied to physical-world risk management.

Theo Baker’s reporting helped force a Stanford president’s resignation. As he graduates, his new book argues that the university’s ties to venture capital shaped far more than a single scandal.

A huge return from Cerebras is reinforcing venture capital’s renewed appetite for companies that combine software with chips, robotics, energy, and defense systems.

New revenue estimates suggest the AI startup market is expanding at extraordinary speed, while most of the money is flowing to a tiny group of model makers.

A compact biotech update from Endpoints captures two recurring pressures on the sector at once: the need to keep capital flowing and the need to produce clinical evidence that can justify it.

Nvidia has already committed more than $40 billion to AI-related equity deals in 2026, reinforcing its influence far beyond chips and data centers.

Reported fundraising moves by Deepseek and Core Automation show how aggressively investors are still backing frontier AI, with capital pouring into both large model labs and younger companies pursuing post-training and商业

Nicolas Sauvage says the best venture bets can take four years to look obvious. That thesis has shaped TDK Ventures’ push into AI inference, batteries, and grid hardware long before those areas became crowded.

Beijing is reportedly telling private technology companies to turn away U.S. money unless the state signs off first, extending a broader push to keep strategically important AI assets and ownership under tighter domestic

Global edtech investment has fallen sharply from its pandemic peak as investors retreat from K-12 startup models and move toward AI tools, workforce training, and products with clearer returns.

A viral Stanford computer science class packed with celebrity AI guests has become a flashpoint over whether elite access is enriching education or crowding it out.

Veteran Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway said he has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, while insisting SV Angel’s operations and investment decisions will remain unchanged.

Cursor is reportedly in talks to raise at least $2 billion in new capital at a $50 billion valuation, a sign of how quickly the market for AI coding tools is scaling as enterprise demand accelerates.

Sequoia Capital has reportedly raised about $7 billion for a new expansion fund, underscoring how the AI boom is reshaping late-stage venture investing in the U.S. and Europe.

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 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.

Private fusion investment has climbed to $7.1 billion, with a large share flowing to a small number of startups as improved computing, AI and superconducting magnets reshape the field.

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.