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Mecka AI Secures $60 Million in Series B Funding Led by Sequoia

Mecka AI, a startup focused on collecting and analyzing human motion data for training humanoid and other robots, has successfully raised $60 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia. Notable participants in this funding include Nvidia and Microsoft's venture fund M12, among others. This...

Heaviside Partners with Nammo to Launch Tyr Loitering Munition

Heaviside, a US-Norwegian startup based in Los Angeles, has launched the Tyr loitering munition. This innovative weapon system is designed for precision strikes against armored targets. Heaviside collaborates with Norwegian arms manufacturer Nammo, which supplies anti-tank warheads and facilitates l...

Venture Capital in Robotics: Who Truly Funds Robotics Startups?

Humanoid robots are attracting record funding, yet identifying investors solely focused on robotics remains challenging. Behind the announcements are specialists, deep tech funds, and investment branches of industrial groups. For European startups, understanding these distinctions can significantly...

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Hebbian Robotics Releases HFlow 0.2.4 for Robotic Data Quality Control

Hebbian Robotics has launched HFlow 0.2.4, a preliminary version of its open-source tool aimed at robotic data quality control. The software organizes videos, joint states, actions, and timestamps used for training models, while tracking transformations applied to each episode. Robotic teams often a...

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SpaceX's Starmind Targets AI Labs with $6.3 Billion Compute Contracts

SpaceX's Starmind is designed to provide wholesale AI compute services to businesses, particularly AI labs and cloud customers, rather than individual consumers. The service operates similarly to AWS, where users benefit from applications running on Starmind without direct subscriptions. The compute...

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Sequoia Backs Drone Startup Stark at €3.2 Billion Valuation

Stark Defence, a startup specializing in kamikaze drones, has successfully secured €500 million (approximately $570 million) in a recent funding round. The investment was spearheaded by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, reflecting a growing trend of private capital flowing into Europe...

European startup to make defense drones in Japan, export across Asia

Portuguese drone startup Tekever is set to establish a manufacturing base for defense drones in Japan, marking a significant milestone as it is expected to be the first foreign defense company to do so. The initiative, reported on June 23, 2026, aims to leverage Japan's advanced sensor technology an...

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Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Applications for the Startup Battlefield 200 will close on June 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT, offering a final opportunity for startups to compete on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. This prestigious event is set to take place in October at Moscone West in San Francisco. Entrepreneurs are encoura...

Differential Robotics, a Hangzhou-based flying robot startup, has raised hundreds of millions of RMB in a Series A1 round — bringing its total funding to over 500 million RMB across six rounds in less than two years of operation.

Differential Robotics has successfully secured hundreds of millions in its Series A1 funding round, aimed at scaling the production of its P300 autonomous flying robots. This significant investment comes as the company seeks to enhance the capabilities of its technology for use in complex environmen...

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Tracking startup closures across Southeast Asia

Startups in Southeast Asia are facing significant challenges, leading to a notable number of failures across the region. Despite the growing entrepreneurial landscape, a lack of comprehensive data hampers the understanding of these trends. Recent analyses aim to shed light on the macro-level factors...

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