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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 26, 2025

It’s Thursday, March 26, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight a sharp surge in capital flowing into AI infrastructure, defense autonomy, healthcare automation, and financial systems modernization. From billion-dollar bets on […]

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SpaceX eyes $75B IPO at $1.75T valuation, could become largest listing in history

SpaceX is aiming for something no company has pulled off before: a public debut that could eclipse every IPO in history. The company is telling investors it wants to raise about $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation, according to […]

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Defense AI startup Shield AI raises $1.5B at $12.7B valuation, eyes Aechelon acquisition to boost autonomous warfare tech

Shield AI is raising fresh capital at a moment when software is starting to define how military power is built and deployed. The San Diego-based defense startup announced it is raising $1.5 billion in Series G funding at a $12.7 billion […]

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Laundry tech startup Cents raises $140M in funding to digitize laundromats with AI-powered software and payments

Laundry is one of those businesses most people never think about—until the machines stop working or the payment system fails. Behind the scenes, tens of thousands of small operators keep the industry running, often with outdated tools and fragmented systems. […]

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AI bots now dominate the Internet, surpassing human traffic for the first time

The internet was built on a simple premise: there’s a human on the other side of the screen. That assumption is breaking down faster than anyone expected. Now, a new State of AI Traffic report from Human Security says automated […]

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Nvidia-backed startup Reflection eyes $2.5B round at $25B valuation as U.S. open-source AI push takes on China

Reflection, the New York-based AI startup founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, is in talks to raise $2.5 billion at a $25 billion valuation, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 25, 2025

It’s Wednesday, March 25, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight a sharp surge in AI applications moving beyond experimentation into real-world deployment—from legal workflows and healthcare operations to financial infrastructure and […]

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iGaming Forecasts: A Look Into the Maturing Trends

The iGaming industry has experienced rapid growth and evolution within its niche online platforms. Making this industry a global entertainment powerhouse. Technology and regulations have played a role in more structured designs, and the sector is now entering a phase […]

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Onit Security raises $11M to fix vulnerability backlogs after Iranian cyberattack exposed a broken security system

A single missed vulnerability can sit quietly in a backlog for weeks. That’s all it takes. In one case, it gave attackers an open door. That moment is what led to the creation of Onit Security. The Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity […]

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Meta to lay off hundreds as HR emails trigger panic over broader job cuts

Meta employees went to bed on Tuesday with a short email from HR. By morning, that message had turned into something bigger: fear that job cuts could begin within hours. Inside Meta Platforms, teams tied to wearables and advertising were […]

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Legal AI startup Harvey hits $11B valuation with $200M funding as investors look beyond OpenAI and Anthropic

The AI boom has minted giants at a staggering pace. OpenAI and Anthropic now command a combined valuation north of $1 trillion, pulling talent, capital, and attention into a tight orbit. The concern across the industry is simple: if the […]

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Amazon acquires humanoid robotics startup Fauna to expand into consumer robots market

Amazon is making a bigger bet on humanoid robots—and this time, it’s going straight into the home. The e-commerce giant has acquired Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup building compact, human-friendly robots for everyday use. The deal, first reported […]

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OpenAI shuts down Sora video app months after launch, pivots to AI agents and enterprise tools ahead of potential IPO

OpenAI is pulling the plug on one of its most talked-about consumer products just months after its debut. On Tuesday, March 24, 2026, the company confirmed it will shut down its standalone Sora video app, along with the API and all […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 24, 2025

It’s Tuesday, March 24, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight investor appetite for AI infrastructure, smart mobility, and precision therapies. As capital concentrates around systems that automate physical environments, treat chronic […]

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Private Chinese startup mass-produces Mach 7 hypersonic missiles for $99,000

As tensions continue to escalate in the ongoing war involving Iran, a new development out of China is raising fresh concerns about how the conflict could evolve. A private Chinese aerospace company says it has begun mass-producing Mach 7 hypersonic […]

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BrainGrid raises $1M pre-Seed to help non-technical founders turn AI ideas into real software products

There’s a growing gap between what AI can generate and what founders can actually ship. Tools like Claude Code and Cursor can produce working code from a prompt. But once a project moves past a quick demo, things start to […]

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Miro acquires Reforge to solve AI’s biggest bottleneck: deciding what to build

The rush to adopt AI has created a strange new problem inside companies. Teams can build faster than ever. What slows them down now is figuring out what actually deserves to be built. Miro is making a bet on that […]

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NoTraffic raises $90M to turn traffic lights into AI-powered digital infrastructure across North America

Traffic lights haven’t changed much in decades. They still follow fixed timing patterns, reacting slowly to conditions that shift by the minute. That gap is starting to show as cities deal with heavier congestion, tighter budgets, and rising commuter expectations. […]

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Crunchyroll probes breach after hackers claim access to millions of user records, demand $5M

Crunchyroll is looking into what could become one of the largest security incidents for an anime platform in recent memory after hackers claimed they broke into its systems and extracted data tied to millions of users. The Sony-owned streaming service […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 23, 2025

It’s Monday, March 23, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds reflect accelerating investor momentum around human-centric AI, intelligent automation, and next-generation hardware. As startups race to define the future of knowledge work, […]

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Playnance launches democratic social gaming protocol with 1.3B GCOIN staked, 1M holders, and 2M daily transactions

Playnance is taking a direct swing at how gaming platforms make money—and who actually benefits. The Tel Aviv-based startup today launched what it calls a democratic social gaming protocol, built on the idea that players shouldn’t just fuel the system […]

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Microsoft-backed startup Lace raises $40M to build atomic-level chipmaking tech

A small team in Norway is taking aim at one of the hardest problems in computing: how to keep shrinking chips as today’s methods approach their limits. Lace Lithography, a Bergen-based startup backed by Microsoft, has raised $40 million to […]

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