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Young technology companies worth watching, covering funding, product launches, hiring, pivots and the ones quietly running out of their runway.
Ema’s $77 million Series B more than quadruples its 2024 valuation on a thesis that enterprise SaaS apps are turning into mere databases once AI agents do the actual work on top of them.
Emulate was incorporated in August. It has no product, no website and no disclosed headcount. It is in talks to raise $700 million at a valuation approaching $4 billion, and the reason is three names from DeepMind’s world model team.
Battery demand grew 16 percent in 2026, yet most battery stocks fell. A layer by layer look at cell makers, grid storage, lithium miners and solid state developers, with the numbers behind each.
The Enough Phone targets a 5.3-inch screen, a battery you can swap by hand, and a Kickstarter campaign that needs 20,000 backers. It arrives four months before an EU rule that was supposed to make swappable batteries normal, and that rule has a loophole.
DeepSeek is closing a $7.4 billion round at a $74 billion valuation ahead of a possible 2027 Shanghai IPO, even as it undercuts AI pricing across the industry. Here is who is funding it, and why the math looks contradictory.
Instinct’s AI assistant sent an email without approval and kept summarizing an inbox after access was revoked. Days later, investors valued it at $2.5 billion.
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.
Stockholm’s Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, double what it was worth in December. The revenue growth behind it is real. The harder question is what happens to everyone selling software when describing an app is enough to build one.
Mate Rimac, the founder of Croatian electric vehicle maker Rimac Group, started working on electric robotaxis seven years ago. Now,…
When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility…