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65 articlesPoetic hit eight-figure revenue with 4 people. Now Kleiner Perkins is betting it's the future of enterprise AI.
Kleiner Perkins closed $3.5 billion across two new funds — $1 billion for its 22nd early-stage vehicle and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth — marking its largest single fundraise and most concentrated AI deployment to date. The firm is betting across foundation models, infrastructure, and deployme
Lockheed posted 110 jobs then doubled — every new role sits inside an active Guard base
On June 24, 2026, the U.S. awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year, up to $35 billion undefinitized contract to quadruple THAAD interceptor production under the Golden Dome homeland missile defense mandate. The deal is the first major multiyear procurement under the Department of War's Acquisition Tran
Thales Is Building a Cloud Google Can't Touch — and Hiring 8,000 People to Run It
Thales plans to recruit 8,000 people worldwide in 2025, with 40% in engineering roles spanning AI, cybersecurity, and data science. The company's hiring surge is backed by a new sovereign cloud partnership with Google Cloud in Germany, operated through a fully owned French-German entity with SecNumC
Thales's $2B Garden Island deal creates 800 jobs — and a clearance bottleneck that could starve the entire Pacific fleet.
Thales Australia has been appointed Regional Maintenance Provider for the Regional Maintenance Centre East at Garden Island, Sydney, in a seven-year, $2 billion deal—the largest sustainment commitment the Royal Australian Navy has made to a single east-coast site. Covering Canberra-class LHDs, Hobar
a16z and Menlo rarely co-lead seed rounds. Their $13.5M bet on Phylo explains why.
Phylo raised a $13.5M seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures through the Anthropic-linked Anthology fund. The company is building an Integrated Biology Environment — an AI-native workspace where LLM agents plan experiments, search literature, generate code, and dispatch jobs to
Base Power Raised $1 Billion. Its Fastest-Growing Job Requires a License, Not a PhD.
Base Power's $1B Series C raise at a $4B post-money valuation signals aggressive hiring across power electronics, field operations, and grid interconnection. The article explores how its physical-deployment model, Bandera Electric partnership, and Austin battery factory are reshaping energy talent d
Google, Mercedes-Benz, and Qatar Just Bet $935M That Humanoid Robots Are Ready for the Factory Floor
Apptronik raised $935M in Series A funding from Google, Mercedes-Benz, and QIA, reaching a $5.5B valuation. The round signals a shift from research to mass production in humanoid robotics, with talent from Waymo, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon joining to scale Apollo robots for warehouses and factories
Vira Health raised $12M to build a menopause platform — and 8 of its 10 open roles are clinicians who will never see a patient
Vira Health raised $12M in a Series A led by Octopus Ventures with Optum Ventures participating, betting on menopause care as a standalone digital health category. The London-based company is building a multilingual telehealth platform targeting U.S. employer channels, with clinical educators across
Thales Has 120 Open Radar Roles in One Dutch Town — and the Netherlands Just Became Europe's Sensor Capital
Thales and the Dutch Ministry of Defence signed a strategic partnership on June 22, 2026, to expand radar production, development, and test capacity at Thales's Hengelo facility. The deal funds a new near-field test site with an anechoic chamber, expanded printed circuit board production, an additio
France Wants 1,000 Drones a Month Without US or Chinese Parts. The Bottleneck Isn't the Factory — It's 1,900 Engineers.
Renault and Thales have partnered to build a sovereign French drone-manufacturing base, targeting 1,000 TOUTATIS loitering munitions per month by 2027. The collaboration addresses Europe's defense production gap by applying automotive-scale manufacturing to military drones, while also unveiling the
AIM's Ouster Lidar Deal Looks Like a Supply Agreement. The Engineering Requirements Buried in It Are Actually a 21-Person Recruiting Blueprint.
AIM Intelligent Machines raised $50M in June 2025 with a clear mission: convert venture capital into engineers as fast as possible. The Redmond startup retrofits heavy equipment with plug-and-play autonomy, targeting mining and construction sites. With 21 open roles and a strategic lidar deal with O
The AI Industry Has a 50% Talent Shortage. Kleiner Perkins Is Spending $3.5 Billion to Fill the Gap Its Own Portfolio Created.
Kleiner Perkins closed $3.5B across two new funds in March 2026, betting that the biggest AI returns will come from applications built on top of foundation models. The firm's portfolio spans infrastructure, agentic orchestration, security, and physical AI, with aggressive hiring across its companies
France's Defense Job Postings Outnumber Germany's and the UK's Combined. Thales Alone Is Hiring 9,000 in 2026.
Renault and Thales unveiled the 4 TROOP, a hybrid 4×4 prototype combining troop transport, drone/robot command, and networked tactical operations—signaling a new model for European defense platforms.
Thales Is Hiring Mechanical Engineers Who Can Write Code and Software Engineers Who Understand Armor — at the Same Factory
At Eurosatory 2026, Thales Australia unveiled the Bushmaster 5.6 (Mulga), a utility variant adding counter-drone, electronic warfare, and strike capabilities to the proven armored platform. The launch signals a shift toward integrated ground vehicles that detect, communicate, and kill within a singl
China Controls 90% of Rare Earth Refining. The U.S. Just Posted 1,000 Jobs to Catch Up.
The U.S. government is shifting from restricting foreign mineral sourcing to actively building domestic and allied supply chains. This policy pivot is creating a surge in defense jobs focused on critical minerals, from geologists to smelter operators, as new legislation and executive orders reshape
Collins Aerospace Is Hiring Across Three Continents on a $158.5 Million Factory Spending Spree — and the Roles Span AI Strategy Directors to Shop-Floor Technicians
Collins Aerospace is investing $63 million in Malaysia, $69 million in Poland, and $26.5 million in Florida to expand MRO, landing gear, and radar production capacity, creating hundreds of skilled aerospace jobs across three continents.
The Overture supersonic airliner was supposed to be Boom's reason for existing. Now the company's primary revenue driver is a product it conceived, funded, and sold in a matter of months.
Boom Supersonic, founded to revive supersonic passenger flight, has pivoted to a natural-gas turbine business called Superpower. The division has already secured $300M in funding and a $1.25B+ backlog, with profits earmarked to fund the Overture airliner's development.
Defense-Tech Is Building a Space Electronics Talent Pipeline in Boulder — and It's Competing Directly With AI Salaries
Boulder, Colorado, has become an unexpected battleground where defense-tech companies building space electronics infrastructure are competing directly…
67,353 Security Clearance Jobs Are Hiring Now — and None Are on LinkedIn
ClearanceJobs lists 67,353 active security clearance jobs from 1,781 pre-screened hiring companies as of June 2026 — and virtually none of them appear on…
250,000 quantum jobs projected by 2030. Only 16,500 professionals exist today.
The Department of Commerce awarded $2.013 billion to nine quantum companies under the CHIPS and Science Act, but the real labor market shock is unfolding across the broader ecosystem. DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative is fueling a hiring surge, with startups outbidding Big Tech for scarce quan
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