ARTERY Technology is gearing up for a Taipei Exchange listing in late January 2026. The MCU supplier is pivoting to performance-driven applications like drones and edge AI to escape margin pressure in China’s crowded low-end market. Its strategy hinges on developing more advanced 28nm chips.
Insilico Medicine, an AI-powered drug discovery company, saw its shares surge nearly 25% in its Hong Kong IPO. The listing, backed by giants like Eli Lilly and Tencent, values the firm at over $2 billion. Now, it has to prove its technology can actually get a drug to market.
TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield competition narrowed thousands of applicants down to 200 top contenders. Among them, these seven space and defense startups stood out for their innovative approaches to propulsion, AI, and navigation.
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is back with a new venture, Dazzle AI. The startup just raised funding at a $35 million valuation and plans to launch its first product within months. Mayer shut down her previous company, Sunshine, to focus on this new AI effort.
Venture capital is pouring into the creator economy, but the focus has sharply split. About $1.2 billion went to AI content creation startups like Synthesia, while social shopping platforms like Whatnot pulled in hundreds of millions more. The funding boom highlights two competing visions for the fu
Mill, the food waste startup from Nest’s founders, just locked in a major deal with Whole Foods. Starting in 2027, every store will get a commercial Mill bin. The strategy? Sell to executives at home first.
The CEO of software giant Databricks isn’t mincing words about the current AI investment craze. Ali Ghodsi calls the trend of funding companies with zero revenue “clearly a bubble” and “insane,” predicting the situation will deteriorate over the next 12 months.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is scrambling to assemble a $22.5 billion funding commitment for OpenAI by the end of this year. The firm is selling major stakes and slowing all other investments to go “all-in” on artificial intelligence.
ScrubMarine just closed a €849,000 pre-Seed round to accelerate its autonomous subsea robotics. The UK startup aims to replace slow, dangerous legacy processes in maritime inspection and maintenance. It’s a tough market, but the timing might be right.
SoftBank is in a race against time to secure $22.5 billion for its OpenAI partnership before the end of the year. The funds are part of the massive $500 billion Stargate AI datacenter initiative. CEO Masayoshi Son is now personally reviewing any investment over $50 million.
