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114,162

Companies

$7.2T

Total Funding

28,236

Investors

215,105

People

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Simulations Plus

Simulations Plus

Lancaster, CA, US

Founded

1996

Stage

Public

Disclosed Funding

$1.7M

loanDepot

loanDepot

Foothill Ranch, CA, US

Founded

2010

Stage

Public

Disclosed Funding

$181.9M

Copart

Copart

Dallas, TX, US

Founded

1982

Stage

Public

Disclosed Funding

$108M

Crown Holdings

Crown Holdings

Yardley, PA, US

Founded

1892

Stage

Public

Disclosed Funding

$1.8B

PG&E

PG&E

Oakland, CA, US

Founded

1905

Stage

Public

Disclosed Funding

$12.9B

Curist

Curist

New York City, NY, US

Founded

2018

Stage

Pre-Seed

Disclosed Funding

$1k

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Micron, SoftBank and ASML slide as Wall Street chip rout spreads

Asian technology stocks tumbled Tuesday as a sell-off in U.S. semiconductor shares spilled into regional markets.

Oct 13, 2026

Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.

Oct 13, 2026

JPMorgan, Goldman Limit Risk on Volta’s $5 Billion AI Loan Offering

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have taken a rare move to limit their exposure on a $5 billion loan sale …

Oct 12, 2026

Elon Musk gives $276 million to Republican groups, becomes biggest known 2026 midterm donor

Musk’s record midterm election spending comes as the Tesla and SpaceX CEO rebuilds his relationship with Trump and has business ties to the federal government.

Oct 12, 2026

Exclusive: Ambient scribe startup Suki raises $90M Series E

Suki, a health care AI and scribe company, raised a $90 million Series E round to scale and add agentic workflows, CEO Punit Soni tells Axios Pro exclusively.

Oct 12, 2026

IonQ to acquire cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal for up to $1.3 billion

Quantum computing platform is buying cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal for up to $1.3 billion.

Oct 12, 2026

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Oct 13, 2026

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Freightmate AI has settled a trade secrets lawsuit filed by San Francisco-based freight forwarder Flexport on terms that will keep the Bellevue, Wash.-based logistics software startup’s products on the market. “We’re glad to have this resolved,” said Bryan Lacaillade, Freightmate’s CEO and co-founde

Oct 12, 2026

Quantum computer maker IonQ to buy cybersecurity startup Elisity for $1.3B

IonQ Inc., a publicly traded supplier of quantum computers, today announced plans to acquire Elisity Inc. for $1.3 billion. The price tag includes $150 million in performance incentives that are contingent on Elisity meeting certain business milestones. The all-stock deal is set to close by year’s e

Oct 12, 2026

Dell and Intel weigh the costs of enterprise AI scalability

Dell and Intel explore enterprise AI scalability as rising token costs prompt customers to weigh cloud models, on-premises options and existing infrastructure.

Oct 12, 2026

Microsoft debuts multichiplet Maia 300 inference accelerator

Microsoft Corp. today pulled back the curtains on Maia 300, its newest internally developed artificial intelligence accelerator. The chip is optimized for inference. Microsoft estimates that it can process 40% more tokens per megawatt than “leading GPU-based systems,” which is likely a reference to

Oct 12, 2026

What to expect from theCUBE’s Smarsh EDGE analysis: Tune in Oct. 15

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Exclusive: Akuity adds Fleet Management to Kargo Enterprise to replace per-cluster pipelines

Software delivery platform company Akuity Inc. today added Fleet Management to its Kargo Enterprise platform to allow teams to ship one change across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters as a single release. Akuity is pitching it as a replacement for the per-cluster pipelines those teams maintain now. Th

Oct 12, 2026

E-commerce AI startup Loops raises $3.5M to create smoother online shopping experiences

Agentic e-commerce startup Loops Smart AI wants to help online retailers create more seamless buying journeys and streamline the shopping experience after raising $3.5 million in seed funding today. Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z speedrun accelerator led the round, with NTT Docomo, Connecticut Innovatio

Oct 12, 2026

Oxide Computer raises $445M to step up data center rack production

Data center hardware startup Oxide Computer Inc. today announced that it has raised $445 million in funding. Returning backer Eclipse Capital led the Series D round. It was joined by AMD Ventures, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Atreides Management and USIT, which led Oxide’s previous $200 million raise

Oct 9, 2026

‘Star Wars’ is crossing over with ‘D&D’ in two upcoming books from Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast plans to revisit the Star Wars universe as its next big cross-company collaboration for Dungeons & Dragons. On the first day of New York Comic Con 2026, one of the reveals at its big Disney/Lucasfilm panel was the upcoming debut of two new sourcebooks for D&D based on the Star W

Oct 9, 2026

Warehouse robot maker Ultra Robotics bags $62M

Ultra Robotics Corp. today announced that it has raised $62 million in funding over two rounds. Fortune reported that the company received the bulk of the capital, $50 million, through a Series A investment led by Framework Ventures. Ultra’s seed round was jointly led by Y Combinator and NextView Ve

Oct 9, 2026

18 insights from SailPoint’s Navigate event: Enterprises race to bring identity security for AI agents up to machine speed

Identity security for AI agents is a board priority, and enterprises at Navigate 2026 are moving to just-in-time access and named human owners.

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