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1. Arc gets its first major order for electric tugboats worth $160M, also Klarna’s IPO pops, raising $1.4B

   Published: 11/09/2025
2. AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness, plus another app just raised $14M to take on the loneliness epidemic

   Published: 10/09/2025
3. Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market, also Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue

   Published: 10/09/2025
4. Nuclearn gets $10.5M to help the nuclear industry embrace AI, plus ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe

   Published: 9/09/2025
5. Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC, Space DOTS raises $1.5M, and Cognition AI defied turbulence with a $400M raise at $10.2B valuation

   Published: 9/09/2025
6. Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?

   Published: 8/09/2025
7. Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

   Published: 8/09/2025
8. Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries and more tech news

   Published: 5/09/2025
9. AI logistics startup Augment raised massive $85M Series A; plus Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg

   Published: 5/09/2025
10. Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M; also, Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry

    Published: 4/09/2025
11. Orchard Robotics raises $22M for farm vision AI; also, Mistral on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation

    Published: 4/09/2025
12. Advanced geothermal startups are getting warmed up and Fizz expands into grocery delivery

    Published: 3/09/2025
13. Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183 billion valuation, also OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig

    Published: 3/09/2025
14. Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B, also India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage

    Published: 2/09/2025
15. Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone

    Published: 2/09/2025
16. Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora

    Published: 1/09/2025
17. Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI’s 95% failure rate

    Published: 1/09/2025
18. No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation, also US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up

    Published: 29/08/2025
19. How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change, also, Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls

    Published: 29/08/2025
20. Terraton wants to be the McDonald’s of biochar, also Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing

    Published: 28/08/2025