Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf

Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly, it’s not in the market…

Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup

As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest…

Exclusive: Secretive VC firm Hedosophia raises over $200m for secondaries fund, sources say

Secretive London-based VC Hedosophia has raised a dedicated secondaries fund, multiple sources tell Sifted, as the…

Bezos-backed startup designed an EV that can change like a ‘Transformer’

Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of…

Bezos-backed EV startup pitched investors on ‘Transformer’-like customization

Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of…

Exclusive: The Family cofounder Oussama Ammar ordered to pay £6.5m in damages

Oussama Ammar, cofounder of French startup accelerator The Family, has been found liable for fraud and…

Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces and $4.3M from a tweet

On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just…

Bolt’s Ryan Breslow pins his hopes on a new app that takes on Coinbase, Zelle, and PayPal

Ryan Breslow is officially back. While the founder of one-click checkout company Bolt re-assumed its helm…

Phantom Neuro grabs $19M to help amputees put their phantom limbs to use

The science fiction trope of humans superpowered by computer and bionic implants is fast becoming a…

Fusion power has a fuel problem; Hexium has a laser-powered solution

Fusion startups have a tough row to hoe. Their mission? To create a new kind of…

Former Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solution

Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 — so…

Here’s how Pacific Fusion plans to build a fusion power plant

Pacific Fusion made a splash in October when it emerged from stealth with a $900 million…

Deel’s CEO is now in Dubai, complicating Rippling’s lawsuit

Rippling’s efforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz have been significantly complicated by the fact that…

Conifer locks down $20M seed round for its ‘drop-in’ electric hub motor

A handful of engineers who worked at Lucid Motors and on Apple’s electric car project have…

Exclusive: ElevenLabs, OpenAI and DeepMind angels back startup that makes films with AI

Wonder, a London-based creative studio that uses AI to make films for entertainment and advertising, has…

Why Nest co-founder Matt Rogers is still bullish on HVAC

Back in 2010, when Matt Rogers founded Nest with Tony Fadell, home heating and cooling wasn’t…

Inventex founder, an engineer for Coinbase at 14, wants to revolutionize patent applications

Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer…

Artisan, the ‘stop hiring humans’ AI agent startup, raises $25M — and is still hiring humans 

It’s been a tough but exciting year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI…

Tired of doing laundry? These startups want to help.

Doing laundry can be a chore. It takes time and is tedious. Few of us like…

XL Batteries is using petrochemical infrastructure to store solar and wind power

Plenty of materials — from sulfur and sodium to manganese and organic molecules — have tried…

Los Angeles-based Rain raised a $75M Series B in another good sign for fintech

Rain, a startup offering an employer-integrated earned wage access (EWA) app coupled with financial-wellness features like…

Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures is raising $100M for a new fund

Ballistic Ventures, the VC firm co-founded by Ted Schlein (known for his years at Kleiner Perkins),…