Categoria: Startups

The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy.  Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and… Continua a leggere Hardware’s brutal week: iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power go bankrupt

Called the Unicorn Growth Fund, the investment vehicle is a collaboration between Krafton and South Korean internet conglomerate Naver and investor Mirae Asset. It aims to deploy around $669.3 million over four years.

The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy.  Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap overseas competition. From… Continua a leggere From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt? 

Founders Gabriel Sanchez (Enspectra Health) and Tom Harries (Earth Funeral) share what it takes to build in heavily regulated industries where “move fast and break things” simply won’t work. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal the realities of navigating FDA approval processes, state-by-state regulations, and cultural taboos while building products that are literally… Continua a leggere Making life (and death) better despite regulatory barriers

Lovable has seen its valuation more than triple just five months after the company’s last funding round in July.

Jiten Behl, partner at Eclipse Ventures and former chief growth officer at Rivian, thinks we’re entering an era of major re-industrialization in the U.S. — one where factories run on AI-powered robots, not cheap overseas labor.   Behl, who helped scale Rivian from a conference room idea in 2015 to a publicly traded EV maker, is… Continua a leggere Former Rivian exec says ‘Every car company will become a robotics company’

The food waste startup founded by Nest alumnus Matt Rogers also received an investment from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund.

Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental company that won top consumer pitch at Disrupt this year.

With this funding, Digantara has raised $64.5 million in total as it moves beyond space situational awareness into missile tracking, citing growing demand from governments for space-based defense capabilities.

Last Energy will use the funds to build its 5 megawatt pilot reactor in Texas, which it hopes to turn on next year.