Startup wisdom: How to get your startup noticed — 5 principles to master

Startup wisdom is a new TNW series offering practical lessons from experts who’ve helped build great companies. This week, Lize Hong, the founder of strategic communications firm Venture Vox, shar [...]

Ascentra Labs raises $2 million to help consultants use AI instead of all-night Excel marathons

While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemoth� [...]

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B fundi [...]

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automat [...]

How AI startups are scaling revenue 'faster than any other companies in cloud history' - and what's next

This VC funded Anthropic and Perplexity. Here are five predictions it makes for the year ahead in AI [...]

Microsoft just got its hands on 100,000 Nvidia GB300 chips - and all it took was investing $33 billion in these startups

Microsoft’s $33 billion investment in neocloud providers secures Nvidia GPUs, expands compute access, and raises new antitrust and energy concerns. [...]

The underdog AI startups on a16z's top 50 list

The VC firm's first-ever AI Application Spending Report reveals illuminating trends about which kinds of AI tools are winning the AI race. [...]

These sensors ‘listen with light’ to guard Europe from subsea sabotage

Dutch tech scaleup Optics11 has launched an underwater monitoring system that uses light waves to “listen” for the presence of foreign objects. Called OptiBarrier, the system can detect enemy subm [...]

European startup’s space capsule ‘lost’ after reentry

Communication with a privately funded European space capsule was lost Tuesday shortly after the spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere.  The capsule launched on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Spa [...]