Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has raised $6 billion for a new fund focused on later-stage tech startups, marking the biggest fundraise in the firm’s 20-year-old history, reports Bloomberg. The fund is ...

Vercel, the company powering Next.js, v0, and the AI Cloud, has raised a $300 million oversubscribed Series F round at a $9.3 billion valuation. The raise, co-led by Accel and GIC, also included ...

Mercury, the San Francisco-based fintech offering digital banking services for startups and SMBs, has raised $300 million in a Series C round, more than doubling its valuation to $3.5 billion. The ...

Artificial intelligence is fuelling an unprecedented surge in electricity demand, pushing investors beyond chips and data centres towards the energy systems that will power the next generation of ...

A lot of college students get tired of endless swiping and messaging on dating apps, and often never meet in person. Ditto uses iMessage to match people up, skipping profiles and direct messages. It ...

Almost all of Iceland’s energy comes from renewable sources. Based on this observation, two energy experts concluded that Europe’s industrial sector needed assistance not only in producing clean ...

Houdini Bio just raised about £1.5 million by combining non-dilutive grants, which do not require giving up equity, with an oversubscribed pre-seed round. SCVC, the venture arm of Science Creates, led ...

In a year when venture capital has narrowed almost entirely to AI, a live-streaming marketplace for Funko Pops, Pokémon cards and sneakers just pulled in over half a billion dollars. Whatnot, the live ...

Most venture firms are still deciding whether the AI boom is a software story or a hardware story. Accel has stopped choosing. The Palo Alto-founded firm has closed $3.5 billion across four ...

Traditional insurance is often fragmented, slow to adapt to customer needs, and hampered by legacy systems that complicate distribution and claims management. Customers and brokers face inefficiencies ...

Berlin startup OllyGarden bags $4m from Datadog, Grafana Labs, Dash0, and DIG Ventures to eliminate bad AI-generated ...

At the TFN x noa executive breakfast, Minimal CEO Patrick Bion revealed how 20 engineers outbuild 600 at Arrival, cutting ...