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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead

Marlize van Romburgh

July 10, 2026

AI once again dominated venture funding this week, claiming five of the 10 largest announced rounds, including a pair of billion-dollar financings...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • M&A • Public Markets • Regional • Robotics • Seed funding • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture

Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up

Gené Teare

July 9, 2026

In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, °µÍø³Ô¹Ï data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Liquidity • Public Markets • Startups • Venture

Sector Snapshot: Cleantech Startup Funding Stabilizes As Energy Demand Grows

Joanna Glasner

July 6, 2026

In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in °µÍø³Ô¹Ï cleantech, EV and...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Communications tech • Enterprise • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Real estate & property tech • SaaS • Startups • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Energy And Biotech Lead The Way

Joanna Glasner

July 2, 2026

U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the way. Houston-based...

AI Robotics • Clean tech and energy • Seed funding • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture • Web3

Why Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer Says It’s A Great Time To Build A Hard Tech Company: ‘Infrastructure Is The Moat’

Gené Teare

June 24, 2026

In this °µÍø³Ô¹Ï News Q&A, Gigascale Capital founder Mike Schroepfer discusses the coming power crunch, why infrastructure has become a strategic...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Manufacturing • Robotics • SaaS • Seed funding • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture

Silicon Is Back: Playground Global’s Decade-Long Bet On Hardware, Energy And Deep Tech Looks Prescient

Gené Teare

June 16, 2026

In the decade-plus since Playground Global's founding, it has built its investment thesis around the idea that breakthroughs in science and...

Artificial intelligence • Business • Clean tech and energy • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • IPO • Manufacturing • Public Markets • Robotics • Semiconductors and 5G • Venture

AI Services And Robotics Lead Diverse Crop Of 29 New May Unicorns As SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI Line Up Blockbuster Exits

Gené Teare

June 9, 2026

A total of 29 companies joined The °µÍø³Ô¹Ï °µÍø³Ô¹Ï in May, but the standout trend was not new AI models, but rather the businesses helping...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Defense tech • Enterprise • Fintech • Robotics • SaaS • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Megarounds Proliferate, Led By Enterprise Software, AI, And Space Tech

Joanna Glasner

June 5, 2026

Startup investors were in a spendy mood this week, backing more than a dozen rounds in the multiple hundreds of millions. Of those, the biggest one...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Travel & tourism • Venture

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: On-Demand Custom Manufacturing, Underwater Geothermal Energy, And Adventure Group Travel

Marlize van Romburgh

June 5, 2026

A grab bag of funded startups caught our attention this past month, from a previously bootstrapped custom metal manufacturer that got its first...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Health, Wellness & Biotech • SaaS • Startups • Transportation & Logistics • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anthropic Dominates In An Otherwise Slower Week For Megarounds

Joanna Glasner

May 29, 2026

Venture funding has always been a world of haves and have nots. And these days, the haves are having more than ever. Case in point this week was...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Economy • Regional • SaaS • Startups • Venture

Bridging Africa’s Innovation Gap: From Potential To Power

Guest Author

May 28, 2026

While Africa’s innovation ecosystem is growing rapidly, it still faces major challenges, writes Mind the Bridge's Alberto Onetti, who argues that the...