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| Oct 10, 2026 | Sabi Raises $50 Million for a Cap Meant to Read Your Thoughts | Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google.
Typing is tedious and talking to your phone on the subway is awkward, so the next step is apparently just thinking: The Silicon Valley start-up Sabi is building a baseball cap that is sup... |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Sabi Pulls In $50 Million Seed Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sabi announced it has raised a $50 million seed round, led by Khosla Ventures, to develop a brain-AI interface designed for everyday wear.
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| Oct 9, 2026 | Parallel Systems: SpaceX Alumni Develop Autonomous Freight Trains | Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google.
US startup Parallel Systems is developing autonomous, battery-powered rail vehicles for freight transport, aiming to close a market gap in short-haul freight. Founder Matt Soule and his t... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Parallel Systems Closes $100M+ in New Funding |
LOS ANGELES, CA, Parallel Systems, the world's leading battery-electric autonomous freight rail company, has closed its Series C funding.
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| Oct 7, 2026 | Parallel Systems Raises $100 Million Series C To Commercialize Autonomous Freight Rail | Parallel Systems has raised $100 million in Series C funding to scale production and commercialization of its battery-electric autonomous freight rail technology. AVP led the round, with new investors Hillspire, Agility Global and Cobalt Ca... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Fallout Season 2 Cold Fusion Gets Real: Muon-Catalyzed Fusion Inches Toward Breakeven | By Roger Satterfield
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| Apr 24, 2026 | Era: $11 Million Raised To Build The Intelligence Layer For A New Ecosystem Of AI-Powered Devices | Era, a startup building a platform that enables any device manufacturer, brand, designer, or creator to make intelligent objects with their own distinct style and behavior, has raised $11 million in seed funding and launched publicly. The r... |
| Apr 10, 2026 | Plume Raises $3.9M in Funding | Plume, a San Francisco, CA-based geospatial data startup focused on infrastructure development, raised $3.9m in funding.
The round was led by AENU, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Raise Phiture, Better Angle, and Collab... |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Plume raises €3.3M to cut years from renewable energy development timelines | Plume, a Franco-American startup specialising in geospatial AI for renewable energies, has raised a €3.3M funding round led by AENU, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Raise Phiture, Better Angle and Collab Fund.
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| Apr 2, 2026 | WHOOP Secures $575M to Accelerate Global Expansion for Human Performance Platform | What You Should Know
The Funding: Human performance company WHOOP has raised $575M in a Series G funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to a staggering $10.1 billion.
The Backers: The round was led by Collaborative Fund and include... |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Osmo: $70 Million Series B Closed For AI-Based Olfaction Platform | Osmo, a digital scent design company, announced it has completed a $70 million Series B funding round, bringing total capital raised to $130 million. The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from new investors including V... |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Osmo Raises $70M in Series B Funding | Osmo, a NYC-based digital scent design company, raised $70M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from new investors including Valor, Atreides, Amplo, Alumni Ventures, Collab Fund, Lumina Partners,... |
| Dec 2, 2025 | A $100,000 new car won’t make you happy—here’s what will, says expert on psychology of money | Nothing is as desired as much as the thing you want but can’t have. In fact, for most people there’s a hierarchy of spending that goes something like this:
If you don’t want something and you don’t have it, you don’t think about it.
If you ... |
| Oct 7, 2025 | Psychology expert: If you live by these 5 rules, you won’t need a lot of money to be happy | When you dream about being happier in the future, you’re probably imagining yourself being content with what you have. Maybe you picture a new house or a luxurious lifestyle. But what you’re really imagining is being satisfied with those th... |
| Sep 22, 2025 | MoldCo Fights Invisible Health Crisis with $8M Funding Boost | MoldCo recently secured $8M in seed funding, bringing its total to $11M. This investment targets America's silent mold toxicity epidemic. MoldCo's telehealth platform delivers affordable, expert-led diagnosis and evidence-based treatment fo... |
| Sep 19, 2025 | MoldCo Raises $8M to Combat the “Invisible Health Crisis” of Mold Toxicity | What You Should Know:
– MoldCo, a telehealth platform specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mold and environmental toxins, has announced it has raised $8M in seed funding co-led by Cantos and Collaborative Fund. The funding brings ... |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Copper Raises $28M in Funding | Copper, a Berkeley, CA-based appliances company, raised $28M in funding.
The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with participation from Building Ventures, as well as existing investors Voyager, Collaborative Fund, Climactic, Designer Fund, ... |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Superhot geothermal energy could unearth big power boost for the AI era | Superhot geothermal uses ultra-deep drilling to access extremely hot rocks.
Quaise Energy, a Massachusetts-based startup, is in the market developing the technology, which involves an electromagnetic beam that vaporizes rock.
It’s one poten... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Top brands and investors bet on [cafeteria] - The next gen insights platform raises new round at $22m valuation | Marquee Ventures, Listen Ventures, and Thayer Investment Partners join [cafeteria] investors Imaginary Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Bertelsmann and Guy Oseary. The company, which has experienced 2x growth in 2025, is investing in enterpris... |
| Feb 5, 2025 | Bags… from bacteria? Modern Synthesis raises $5.5m to expand biomaterials platform | [Disclosure: AgFunder—the parent company of AgFunderNews—is an investor in Modern Synthesis.]
Modern Synthesis—a London-based startup developing biomaterials for high-end fashion brands—has closed a $5.5 million round led by Extantia Capita... |
| Jan 4, 2025 | Phantom data centers: What they are (or aren’t) and why they’re hampering the true promise of AI | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
In the age of AI, public utilities are now facing a new, unexpected problem: Phantom data centers. On the surface... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | UC Davis spinoff One Bio raises $27m Series A to bridge the fiber gap | One Bio—a UC Davis spinoff with proprietary technology to chop up polysaccharides from agricultural waste into “odorless, colorless, and tasteless” fibers that can be added to foods at high inclusion rates—has raised a $27 million series A ... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | WeaveGrid: $28 Million Raised By EV Software Company | WeaveGrid—a software company that enables rapid electric vehicle (EV) adoption on the electric grid—announced $28 million in funding, led by Toyota’s growth fund, Woven Capital. Existing investors Activate Capital, Collab Fund, Emerson Coll... |
| Dec 10, 2024 | WeaveGrid Raises $28M in Funding | WeaveGrid, a San Francisco, CA-based software company that enables rapid electric vehicle (EV) adoption on the electric grid, raised $28M in funding.
The round was led by Woven Capital. Existing investors Activate Capital, Collab Fund, Emer... |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Boston Materials: A Leap into the Future of Advanced Materials | Boston Materials is not just another name in the tech landscape. It’s a beacon of innovation, lighting the way for the next generation of semiconductors and aircraft platforms. Recently, the company secured $13.5 million in funding, a signi... |
| Nov 11, 2024 | Boston Materials Raises $13.5 Million To Develop Next Generation Of Semiconductors And Aircraft Platforms | Boston Materials – a manufacturer of advanced materials key to the next generation of semiconductors and aircraft platforms – announced $13.5 million in new funding. The funding was led by AccelR8 and Diamond Edge Ventures, the US-based cor... |
| May 1, 2024 | Caladan Bio raises $5m seed round to build next generation benchtop bioreactors | Caladan Bio—a startup developing a lower-cost benchtop bioreactor system designed to enhance data capture and increase experimentation throughput—has raised a $5 million seed round led by Twelve Below.
The round, supported by Lerer Hippeau,... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Next Wave: Venture capital is undergoing a reset but no one is changing | Cet article est aussi disponible en français
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| Oct 23, 2023 | Swedish clean energy company Aira secures €86M for green heating innovation | Read this article in:
Sweden-based Aira, a clean energy technology company, announced that it has secured SEK 1B (€86M) in funding from a group of investors to help Europe transition from gas and speed up the journey toward energy independe... |
| Oct 7, 2023 | FS Weekly 73: The Pain and Pleasure of Entrepreneurship | Welcome to the 73rd edition of Future Startup Weekly. FS Weekly is a newsletter about entrepreneurship, business expertise, and doing good work. If you are not a subscriber already, feel free to do it here.
This week’s edition features: 03... |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Hoxton Farms opens cultivated fat pilot facility, targets alt meat: ‘If you can’t get the fat right, it’s impossible to recreate the experience meat eaters crave’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Hoxton Farms]
UK-based startup Hoxton Farms has opened a pilot facility in London to make cultivated fat, the “magic ingredient that makes meat smell, brown, sizzle, and t... |
| Jun 6, 2023 | Collaborative Fund backs Korea’s Sopoong Ventures to grow its footprint in Asia | Venture capital firms often open a physical office or hire local investors to make inroads into new markets, especially when expanding internationally.
But funds are increasingly exploring a variety of other routes into new markets to shore... |
| May 23, 2023 | Collaborative Fund and the Wyss Institute partner to bridge the climate tech ‘valley of death’ | For pretty much every startup, there’s a perilous period that occurs after things are up and running but the money isn’t flowing. Called the “valley of death,” the conundrum is especially challenging for climate tech startups, which tend to... |
| May 17, 2023 | 5 investors discuss what’s in store for venture debt following SVB’s collapse | There are many questions around the implications of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse that won’t be answered for a long time. But there’s one question that many startups and investors are hoping will get answered sooner rather than later... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | Fork & Good targets cost parity for cultivated pork: ‘It’s a totally useless exercise to make products nobody can afford’ | In theory, growing meat from animal cells instead of slaughtering billions of sentient creatures and plundering the oceans sounds like a no-brainer: The promise of ‘real’ meat, without the ethical and environmental baggage.
In practice, man... |
| Mar 13, 2023 | Il mercato del Venture Capital a febbraio 2023 | Come è andato il mercato del Venture Capital a febbraio 2023? Partiamo subito da qualche dato. Gli investimenti in VC (venture capital) in Europa a febbraio 2023 ammontano a 423 milioni di euro, registrando una leggera flessione rispetto ai... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | Rubi Partners with Reformation, GANNI, H&M, Nuuly, and Patagonia to Decarbonize the Fashion Industry | “Rubi is turning fashion’s supply chain on its head, transforming a wasteful and resource intensive process into a net positive for the planet,” said Kathleen Talbot, Chief Sustainability Officer and VP of Operations at Reformation.
SAN FRA... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: Plant-based salmon reels in $12m, new funding for ag robots, Impossible layoffs | This week, Canada’s New School Foods snagged seed funding for its whole-cut plant-based salmon. In agtech, BloomX secured funding for its pollination tech and E-Terry for its farm robot. Meanwhile, KFC struck a deal to put robots in its kit... |
| Jan 13, 2023 | Oula Rakes in $19.1M for Hybrid Maternity Clinic | Hybrid maternity clinic Oula announced Thursday that it secured $19.1 million in Series A funding, which will allow the company to boost its full-service pregnancy care.
New York City-based Oula was founded by Adrianne Nickerson and Elaine ... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | SmartHelio raises USD 5M | |
| Dec 15, 2022 | The week in agrifoodtech: NotCo scores $70m, HealthKart’s mega-round, new funding for Winter Farm | Another week, another funding round for Chilean foodtech startup NotCo. But it wasn’t the only company to land funding during this downturn. Nutrition platform HealthKart secured a mega-round, while indoor farming and restaurant tech both s... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Bioengineered houseplant Neo P1 purifies your home | What if you could have a perfectly crafted house plant which would improve human health and help fight climate change? Well, you can, and it probably has one of the easiest houseplant names to pronounce Neo P1. It may also be the easiest to... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Hoxton Farms raised $22 million to pack in the fat and up the taste of meat alternatives | London-based cultivator of fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry Hoxton Farms has raised a fresh $22 million in a Series A round. The lipids are aimed at breaking ground on a pilot facility for producing cultivated fat, i.... |
| Oct 20, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: new investments in alternative fat, Kroger buying Albertsons, Beyond Meat cuts 200 jobs | This week saw two new investments in startups making alternative fat products: Australia’s Nourish Ingredients and UK-based Hoxton Farms. Kroger announced plans to buy fellow grocery giant Albertsons and precision spraying startup Smart Ass... |
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Crystal-Balling 2023 Amid A Dizzying Array Of Unknowns | Housing’s 2023 forecast fest is in full swing. Already, there’s a menu of house-price landing points for the next 12 to 24 months, suited to gut instincts on a spectrum from rose-colored glasses to fairly pronounced pessimism.
Calculated Ri... |
| Stiffer Headwinds Begin To Distance Better Firms From Peers | Downturns through the ages of housing’s past mostly result in fewer homebuilding companies.
By some accounts, as many as 55% of production homebuilding firms went belly-up in one form or fashion during the Great Financial Crisis of ’07 to ’... |
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How Builders Always Manage To Do What’s Easier Said Than Done | For a business made up of about 5,000 U.S. firms that together develop, build, and sell nine of every 10 ground-up single-family homes– one of whose foundational capital/operational model assumptions puts short-term debt up for long-term re... |
| 12 Essential Questions For Homebuilding Leaders in 2025 | Sometimes, insights don’t arrive dressed as grand proclamations, top-10 trends lists, or complex formulas. Instead, they come as simple questions that strip away the noise and expose the heart of a challenge.
Morgan Housel, author and partn... |
| What Does ‘Back To Basics’ Mean In A Time Of Volatility? | Keeping a business sprinting in a supply-constrained landscape and staying prepared for anything and everything. That’s a tall order, however, these are today’s table stakes for homebuilding operators.
And they’re especially hard to do inde... |
| After Missing Timing, Trajectory Of Correction, Duration Is Next Test | There’s something about the people who make livelihoods of making new homes and communities for people. Corrections – as often as they come – aren’t generally among their super powers.
Anecdotally – and frequently in response to what has be... |
| A Pivot Point: Hear Why Leaders Plan To Focus On Excellence | At the heart of the fetchingly titled essay, “Fill The Bathtub,” CollabFund contributor Ted Lamade quotes the late Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger.
Warren and I have a system where we spend a lot of time identifying very trustworthy peo... |
| Signs Of Mojo: Time To Declare Victory Or Brace For More Bumps? | Worry in these uncertain times is going around. So is its opposite. You get to pick.
Some worry that homebuilders, developers, and their partners may prematurely be declaring victory over the 2022 housing correction. A good number, on the o... |
| What An Early 20th Century Architect Tells Us About Doing More With Less | Our story today aims at freeing opportunity from a trap, a challenge of financial viability during the new residential real estate and construction correction. When the choice is either to race to cut expense faster than revenue tracks down... |
| How To Find Homebuyers In A Prospect Pool That’s Shrinking … For Now | A preliminary Labor Department revision of March 2023 through March 2024 job market data delivered a sharp cautionary note.
Compared with the still-official numbers, employers might have added 818,000 fewer jobs in the 12 months through Mar... |
| In 2024, Homebuilders Face A Math And Psychology Challenge | Had your fill of top 10s for 2023 and predictions for 2024?
Let’s instead start with an operational level-set. This way, you and your teams will have agency and impact on those matters you can control in a broad context of ongoing uncertain... |
| Builder Confidence Rises, But Economic Storm Clouds Hover | In a reflection this week on history and the uncertainties it evokes, Morgan Housel highlights a critical aspect of economic decision-making:
The past wasn’t as good as you remember. The present isn’t as bad as you think. The future will be... |
| Public Firms Seize Advantages; But Private Builders Hold An Edge | There are 36 quotations in Morgan Housel’s latest Collaborative Fund blog posting. He starts … “lines I came across recently that got me thinking.”
Each nugget seems to be better than the one that precedes it. But, as the dots of all this w... |
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Here’s How Agility Can Work As Uncertainty Enfolds What’s Next | In housing – just like on Wall Street right now – there are bulls, bears, and the rest of us mortals.
Bulls seem over-confident that the worst damage of inflation and the heavy-handed Fed is done and past. Bears, on the other hand, seem to ... |
