Breakout Ventures has closed a $114 million Fund III to back AI-focused early-stage startups working in scientific fields such as biology and chemistry. The firm has already written checks to three companies and plans to invest in at least 20 companies through this fund, with average check sizes ranging from $500,000 to $5 million. Lindy … Read more
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns in 2026. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused on other industries like health care and even a few crypto companies. This list will be updated throughout … Read more
Following news last month that New York’s hottest venture firm, Thrive, just raised $10 billion for a new fund — its largest ever, double the previous one — another big-name VC firm is attempting to equal that raise. General Catalyst is in talks to raise $10 billion, unnamed sources tell Bloomberg. This firm, which has … Read more
Subramanian said Anduril will fully absorb ExoAnalytic in the acquisition, adding the firm’s 130 employees to Anduril’s space sector staff of 120. ExoAnalytic has the “best catalog and the best ability” to track objects in geostationary orbit, Subramanian said, providing visibility into an area of valuable real estate used by the US military and foreign … Read more
For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” companies has been challenging that assumption, including Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that grew from a kitchen experiment into a $1.95 billion acquisition by PepsiCo. On this episode of … Read more
Most of the 23 cars in the exhibit haven’t been seen at the Petersen before, but regular visitors will have seen the pink Honda S2000, which is part of the museum’s permanent collection. “That car is interesting because it was… an actual custom. It was owned and built by the editor of Super Street Magazine, … Read more
We’re here at the 2026 Game Developers Conference, where Microsoft “VP of Next Generation” Jason Ronald is talking about a topic near and dear to many gamers’ hearts: the future of Xbox. Ronald says the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip with “an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance” … Read more
Intel’s Core Ultra 200S desktop chips, codenamed “Arrow Lake,” first launched in late 2024, and they were the most significant updates to Apple’s desktop CPU lineup in years. But that didn’t mean they were always improvements over what came before: while they’re power-efficient and run cooler than older 13th- and 14th-generation Core CPUs, they sometimes … Read more
Subramanian said Anduril will fully absorb ExoAnalytic in the acquisition, adding the firm’s 130 employees to Anduril’s space sector staff of 120. ExoAnalytic has the “best catalog and the best ability” to track objects in geostationary orbit, Subramanian said, providing visibility into an area of valuable real estate used by the US military and foreign … Read more
OpenAI’s Sora video generator could soon become a built-in feature in ChatGPT, as reported by The Information. Sora is currently only available on its website or as a standalone app, which has fallen shy of the popularity of ChatGPT. This update would allow users to access Sora’s video generation capabilities directly within ChatGPT itself, much … Read more