‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park
Solano Foundry is a 2,100-acre manufacturing park that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space.
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Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts
Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.
After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering
Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, hinted that one of the problems was tension between her and investors’ expectations of a consumer retail business.
Boulevard raises $80M to power self-care boom driven by Botox and GLP-1 surge
The nine-year-old salon and spa software provider has hit a valuation of nearly $800 million.
Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research’ mode
French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing.
Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M
San Francisco-based startup Confident Security wants to be “the Signal for AI.” The company just came out of stealth with $4.2 million and a tool that wraps around AI models to guarantee data stays private.
Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
Only eight months after its launch, Sweden’s Lovable has raised a $200 million Series A round led by Accel at a $1.8 billion valuation.
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.
Transit software startup Via confidentially files for an IPO
The transit software company, is finally taking the step into public markets with an IPO after abandoning the idea in 2021.