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Garrett Smith knows a thing or two about medtech startups. He founded his first company as a bioengineering PhD student at the University of California San Diego (PhD ‘12). Since then he has stewarded several technologies through FDA approval; led multiple startups to successful acquisition; directed early innovation partnerships for massive players like Johnson and…

In late May, Neil Rimer said something during a sit-down I had with him in Athens that I haven’t been able to shake. At a vibrant new tech festival in the city, talking about the wealth piling up around AI, he said he has “a strong sense that there will be some sort of a…

Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially miniaturized, factory-built power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional reactors — is in talks to raise a new round of capital, according to threeeeking a valuation of about $6 billion, and Sequoia is expected to lead the deal,…

From NextSilicon and Fractile to d-Matrix and Cornelis, here are the 10 coolest semiconductor startup companies of 2026 that you need to know about.

Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Think, the Saudi-based company building a new generation of intelligent, unified hardware and software infrastructure for artificial intelligence, today announced it has raised over $8 million in pre-seed funding, marking the largest AI infrastructure and deeptech pre-seed round in MENA to date

Physical badges used to be all you needed for identity management at a company. But with humans now working alongside machines and AI agents in digital environments, even the identity tools built for the cloud era are proving inadequate.

A lobbying blitz is underway in Trump’s Washington to secure funding for drones, AI cameras and other technologies being used to prevent and limit wildfires.

AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models. Imen Ben Youssef/Hans Lucas/AFP

Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher whose work includes using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the ChatGPT maker to launch a new startup focused on developing AI models for drug discovery, according to four people with knowledge of his plans. Several other OpenAI researchers are expected to join the new company.  

A new report has identified Brazil as the leading hub for agricultural technology startups in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the first Radar Agtech survey covering the region. The report was produced by venture capital firm SP Ventures, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), state-owned agricultural research corporation Embrapa, and Homo…