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Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity rather than craft. The structure repays a close read. The round is $800m in equity plus $250m of committed financing for a revolving credit […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

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The best smart scales for 2025

The New Year is here and there’s no better time to kickstart those health and fitness goals. Whether you’re looking to shed a few holiday pounds, track your muscle gains or simply stay on top of a [...]

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Hypersonic missile startup Castelion is raising $1 billion at a $13 billion valuation

The round will fund expanded production of the Blackbeard hypersonic missile and development of longer-range strike and defensive weapons [...]

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thenextweb
A two-year-old battery startup just hit $13bn by turning American homes into grid capacity.

A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core. The bet behind the number is blunt: the [...]

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German defence ministry asks startup to build hypersonic spaceplane

Germany’s armed forces have commissioned Bremen-based startup Polaris to develop a two-stage, fully reusable hypersonic space plane — and given the team just three years to build it.  Dubbed Auro [...]

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ESA spaceplane project revives bankrupt firm’s hypersonic engine

A bankrupt company’s propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2 [...]

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Baseten is raising $1.5bn at up to $13bn, betting AI’s profits lie in cheap inference

Baseten is finalising a $1.5bn funding round that values the company at up to $13bn. The structure is almost as notable as the size. The round is dual-tiered, with some investors buying in at an $11bn [...]

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Castlelion sells affordable hypersonic Mach 5 missiles for the price of a supercar by tapping into the O&G and audio industries to get cheaper components faster

Castelion's Blackbeard hypersonic missile now costs under $300,000 per round, prompting the Navy to order 50 production units. [...]

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Resolve AI says the AI coding boom is breaking production systems. It wants to fix that.

Resolve AI, the production-operations startup backed by Greylock and Lightspeed Venture Partners, today announced a sweeping expansion of its platform that introduces always-on background agents, a re [...]

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Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters

The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic aircraft at this pace is [...]

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