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$58M Airbnb Bet Sends WeRoad After Lonely Travelers
Airbnb’s $58M bet sends WeRoad to Austin, testing whether social group travel can win over Americans.
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1,000 Headsets Turn Indian Workers Into Robot Training Data
Human Archive is paying Indian service workers to capture real-world motion data for robotics labs.
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One Day Left: Startup Battlefield 2026 Demands Clarity
Startup Battlefield 2026 applicants have until May 27 to prove a working product, sharp team, and big reason to exist.
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$60M SolarSquare Round Tests India's Rooftop Solar
SolarSquare’s reported $60M round could value it near $500M, testing whether India’s rooftop solar can scale nationally.
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$9M Kin Health Bet Puts AI Notetaker in Patients' Hands
Kin Health raised $9M to build a patient-facing AI notetaker that turns doctor visits into summaries and action items.
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Anthropic Grabs Stainless—and Rivals Lose SDK Tooling
Anthropic is buying Stainless and shutting hosted SDK tools, turning neutral API infrastructure into a weapon in the Claude race.
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$50M Rocket-Motor Grab Tests Mach Industries' War Bet
Mach Industries’ $50M Exquadrum buy turns a rocket-motor bottleneck into a production bet across five weapons programs.
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Scapia Grabs $63M to Own India’s Travel Payments Race
Scapia doubled its valuation past $500M as General Catalyst bets travel rewards can become a daily payments habit in India.
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Deep Fission IPO Bets $1.66B on Risky Nuclear AI Hype
Deep Fission wants a $1.66B Nasdaq debut after a “public” merger that never traded, pitching nuclear power for AI data centers.
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Fresha Grabs $80M as Beauty Bookings Become $1B Bet
KKR’s $80M check makes Fresha a $1B beauty-tech unicorn as it pushes AI and global expansion.
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$10.5M Says Stilta Can Find Patents Firms Forgot They Had
Stilta raised $10.5M to turn forgotten patent portfolios into searchable, enforceable and licensable business intelligence.
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Startup Battlefield 200 Puts $100K on a 7-Day Clock
Startup Battlefield 200 closes May 27, putting $100K and a Disrupt stage within reach for 200 early-stage startups.
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