Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 1 April 2026 at 20:00 The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.Β
SpaceX files confidentially for IPO in mega listing potentially valued at $1.75 trillion, report says TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 1 April 2026 at 19:46 The company has also lined up an unusually large number of 21 banks to manage the mega IPO, internally codenamed βProject Apex."
Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 31 March 2026 at 19:00 The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
Starcloud raises $170 million Series A to build data centers in space TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 30 March 2026 at 15:00 Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.