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Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The San Francisco-based firm drew backing from returning investors NightDragon and NEA. The funding arrives as two major AI research labsdisclosed last week tha…

Valar Atomics confirmed the whisperings that it was raising a giant round led by Sequoia on Monday. The startup’s founder and CEO Isaiah Taylor announced that the company has raised $1 billion in equity, with Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire joining its board, and that it also secured a $200 million …

ShareTweet Applications are now open for the 2026/2027 Commonwealth Startup Fellowship, a six-month program designed to help high-potential startups from low and middle-income Commonwealth countries scale their businesses, attract investment and create jobs. Delivered by the Commonwealth Scholarship…

Business startups have until Aug. 10 to apply for the 2026-27 PitchMI competition. Run through the Michigan State University Research Foundation, PitchMI awards funding to early-stage startups to support business growth. Article continues below this ad Twenty Michigan startups across multiple indust…

Where most energy storage companies look for big tracts of land near large connections to the grid, Base Power is betting that it can beat them all by putting batteries in people’s backyards instead. It appears to be paying off, with Base Power installing more than 500 megawatt-hours of storage ov…

Vibe-coding startup Superblocks announced a multiyear joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers. That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to Superblocks will be able to offer vibe coding to the comp…

New programme addresses changing startup landscape August 03, 2026 | 22:45(0) user say A new startup incubation programme will select up to 10 startups from at least 100 applications, with three advancing to testbed and fundraising stages. The Next Wave of Startups (NWoS) Incubation Program 2026 was…

EnergyLab has revealed the 10 startups selected for its 2026 Climate Solutions Accelerator, which is funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).  The six-month program will help promising climate tech startups turn innovative ideas into real-world energy solutions. First run i…

Engineering embodied intelligence tackles the safety pain points of high-altitude operations, and empowers the digital transformation of infrastructure maintenance and repair with hardcore robots. Recently, MaxStable, a Ningbo-based sci-tech innovation enterprise, announced the completion of tens of…

Africa’s startup investment market took a markedly defensive turn in July as investors shifted away from equity financing toward debt, pushing monthly equity funding to its lowest level in more than seven years and underscoring growing caution across the continent’s venture capital ecosystem. Af…