Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."

Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more efficient.

The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.

Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers. 

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.

Neuraspace, the Portuguese space traffic management startup, announced around $18 million in fresh funding Aug. 5 to expand European space domain awareness and defense capabilities.

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The new funding brings Index's total available investing capital to $3.5 billion.

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

Swissto12 said it has raised $70 million in fresh funding to keep up with growing demand for its small geostationary satellite manufacturing business.

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Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

By keeping the number of investments to about 25 per fund, Greylock aims to remain what it calls "the most important partner" to its founders.

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.

Investment in satellite companies reached $8.1 billion in the first half of 2026, already surpassing every previous annual total tracked by early-stage investor Space Capital.

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European government space spending jumped 12% to about $15.4 billion in 2025, according to a July 13 European Space Agency report, bucking a 3% global decline on the back of rising national defense budgets.

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