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Portfolio update. Beltic came out of stealth on September 30 with a $7.3 million seed led by Norwest, which takes the company to $8.8 million raised since it started in 2025. I have been a small backer since 2025, alongside Collide Capital, Latitud and Positive Ventures, and now
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Devrim Yasar is the founder and CEO of Lucky Robots, which built a game engine from scratch for one job: generating training data for robot AI. You describe a robot, a task and a room, the engine builds the scene, and it runs the episode on real physics while recording
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Christoffer Jørgenvåg is the co-founder and CEO of Hive, which builds what it calls a silicon brain for industrial machines: a sensor kit and an AI model installed on the wheel loaders, excavators and forklifts a company already owns, so the operator moves from the cab to a control
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Sze Yuan Cheong and Elijah Ong are the co-founders of Devol Robots, which builds the AI that lets industrial robots handle contact: insertion, assembly, and the other jobs factories still do by hand. Sze, the CEO, started and ran factories for a decade before he touched a robot. Elijah,
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July 5, 2026 - Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Results published September 9, 2026. At 6:50 a.m. Eastern on July 5, a Falcon 9 left Cape Canaveral with 29 Starlink satellites on top and two small canisters riding on its first stage. The satellites went to orbit.
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If You Lose Sleep Over Flock Cameras, Meet Orchestra: It Turns Cameras Into A Live Searchable FeedOrchestra startup mounts 4K cameras across San Francisco streets, tracking people by clothing instead of faces in a legal gray zone.YahooC. da Costa Walk down Market Street right now and more than 100
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Chao Cao is the co-founder and CEO of Sancho, which builds the intelligence layer that lets general-purpose robots connect the machines in advanced manufacturing. He led the autonomy team for CMU's DARPA Subterranean Challenge entries, spent a year and a half at the Boston Dynamics AI
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This Startup Aims To Catapult Satellites Into SpaceCatapulting satellites into space. Making all the data center heat useful. Why memory technology needs disrupting.ForbesAlex Knapp "As I mentioned earlier this month, the space economy is facing a bottleneck when it comes to rocket launches: Demand is currently outstripping supply.
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One of Europe's largest seed investments in Physical AI to build a silicon brain that makes industrial machines autonomous and productivity limitless. Hive raises $15M in pre-Series A to create a silicon brain that can operate any industrial machine — TFNKristiansand-based HIVE has raised $15 million in
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On Sunday, July 5 at 6:50 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Falcon 9 launches 29 @Starlink satellites and @BesxarFoundry’s Flight 1 from Florida pic.twitter.
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SAN FRANCISCO · JUN 3, 2026. Vision Lab, a startup founded by MIT and Stanford researchers, today announced the close of its $6M seed round, led by Race Capital, with continued participation from Y Combinator and new institutional backers including Foothill Ventures and 500 Global. The company provides real-world industrial
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James Kujareevanich is the co-founder and CEO of Vision Lab, a company building the data infrastructure for physical AI - going into factories around the world, capturing first-person video of real operators performing real tasks, and turning that into structured training data for frontier labs and robotics companies. They