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NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 2026 — Silicon Data has announced a $30.5 million initial closing of its Series A, led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with additional investment from CME Group, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic and Wintermute. Breed, Hack, Blank VC, Sancus Ventures and SoGal Ventures also participated.

Most American private schools still raise money the old-fashioned way—silent auctions, annual giving, and a yearly gala with mixed drinks and canapés.  

TAIPEI, Taiwan and MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 6, 2026 — Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage devices, has unveiled its new MonTitan SSD Reference Design Kit (RDK), featuring the company’s next-generation patented PerformaShape technology.

Neb. — Two of Nebraska’s most important resources for entrepreneurs are beginning new chapters

For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed every Y Combinator fou…

As frontier artificial intelligence becomes increasingly centralized in the hands of a few Western companies, India is betting that innovation doesn’t have to come only from the biggest labs. The country has launched a hackathon inviting startups, researchers, students, and academic institutions t…