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1. Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

   Published: 10/10/2025
2. Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production; and Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams

   Published: 10/9/2025
3. Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere

   Published: 10/9/2025
4. Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for GM, Ford, and lots of startups

   Published: 10/8/2025
5. One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built

   Published: 10/8/2025
6. Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse; also, ÄIO invented a method to make edible fat from ag waste like sawdust

   Published: 10/7/2025
7. A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his AI memory startup, Supermemory

   Published: 10/7/2025
8. Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund

   Published: 10/6/2025
9. Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos; plus, If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs

   Published: 10/6/2025
10. A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes; also, New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million

    Published: 10/3/2025
11. How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance

    Published: 10/2/2025
12. Kevin Hart’s VC firm led $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple, also, Electroflow promises to make LFP material for 40% less than Chinese producers

    Published: 10/2/2025
13. Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool

    Published: 10/1/2025
14. Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science, plus, Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist

    Published: 10/1/2025
15. CommanderAI building Salesforce for the waste management industry, also, a year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B

    Published: 9/30/2025
16. Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks; also, AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews

    Published: 9/30/2025
17. The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel; plus, ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common ground

    Published: 9/29/2025
18. Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup, raised huge $21M seed; former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance

    Published: 9/29/2025
19. Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix food supply chains, also Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries

    Published: 9/26/2025
20. Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar

    Published: 9/25/2025