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1,493 articlesA 7-person startup just hit $2.8M in ARR — and it's hunting for the next Bill McDermott
Entangl, a Y Combinator-backed data center AI startup, posted a job listing for 'The Next Bill McDermott,' invoking the legendary enterprise sales playbook of the former SAP and ServiceNow CEO. The company hit $2.8M ARR and a $120M valuation in under two years with just seven employees, having raise
A $400M Tab for Africa's Governments Just Rewired Global Health Aid
The U.S. State Department announced a $150 million grant to Zipline to expand autonomous drone delivery across five African nations. The deal shifts funding risk to Zipline until governments sign contracts committing to pay up to $400 million in utilization fees, breaking sharply with traditional US
Sequoia's first drone bet is a €3.5B Berlin loitering-munitions startup — and Founders Fund came too
Stark Defence raised €500 million in a Series C co-led by Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund, landing at a €3.5 billion+ valuation just two years after founding. The round, which included the NATO Innovation Fund and six other institutional backers, triples Stark's earlier €1 billion mark and pushes
Poetic 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
Terranova raised $7 million to invent a job that doesn't exist yet
Terranova, a San Francisco startup, builds autonomous tracked robots that drill underground and inject slurry to lift sinking cities. With a $7M seed round at a $25M+ valuation, the company is pioneering a new field-robot workforce category at the climate adaptation frontier.
Zipline spent years lobbying for a rule change. Now it's hiring as if the paperwork is already done.
Zipline is expanding into Austin, Texas, hiring UAS Technicians and a Construction Foreman to build and operate drone delivery infrastructure. The move signals a shift from R&D in South San Francisco to domestic operations at scale. Meanwhile, the FAA's proposed Part 108 rule would establish a perma
Varda Space raised $187M to build pharma's first orbital factory — and it's hiring 19 people a week
Varda Space Industries closed a $187 million Series C round on July 10, 2025, bringing total capital raised to $329 million. The El Segundo-based startup plans to use the funds to increase launch cadence toward monthly missions and expand its new 10,000-square-foot biologics lab for crystallizing ph
Construction's QA problem and a crypto trading bot's audit engine draw from the same 200-person talent pool
New York-based Structured AI raised $4.2M in a seed round led in June 2026 by FCVC, with participation from Y Combinator, Sequoia Scout, Cherry Ventures, and others. The company built an AI design reviewer that reads PDFs like a senior engineer, catching code-compliance and coordination issues befor
IonQ just turned a radar-satellite factory into a quantum-key production line — and the job postings are already live.
IonQ's acquisition of Capella Space marks the first time a publicly traded quantum company has acquired a satellite manufacturer. The deal pairs IonQ's trapped-ion quantum systems and quantum key distribution hardware with Capella's synthetic-aperture-radar satellite constellation and ground operati
Meta started it. OpenAI escalated it. Your AI salary may never be the same.
OpenAI grew from 4,467 employees at the end of 2024 to roughly 7,850 by December 2025, a 54.9% year-over-year jump that makes it the largest independent AI lab by headcount. The article examines the company's rapid hiring trajectory from 770 employees in November 2023, its $1.5 million average equit
Blue Origin is paying SpaceX rates to build satellites that don't need ground stations
On January 21, 2026, Blue Origin announced TeraWave, a multi-orbit satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. The company pitched it as a high-capacity backbone for enterprise, data center, and government users, a market segment th
Anduril is building a $1 billion campus and a Nissan drone factory on two continents — and adding 244 jobs a week
Anduril Industries is building a 1.1-million-square-foot campus at Douglas Park in Long Beach, California, a six-building complex that will house 750,000 square feet of office space and 435,000 square feet of industrial R&D facilities. The Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce values the project at ov
Blue Origin's Reston hub posted a three-seat navigation cluster that didn't exist a week ago — the mandate is satellites that know where they are without calling home.
Blue Origin's job posting for a Principal Autonomous Orbit Determination Engineer reveals the company's blueprint for building self-navigating spacecraft. The role fuses optical and radiometric navigation into autonomous onboard systems for Blue Ring, supporting cislunar, heliocentric, and interplan
Thales' Victoria ship-maintenance roles pay up to $125,000. That's not a shipyard wage.
Thales Canada's surge of ship maintenance and naval engineering roles in Victoria-Esquimalt, BC, signals a deeper strategic pivot. The AJISS program is building a workforce skilled in RF systems, thermal management, and platform integration—capabilities that map directly onto Thales Alenia Space's s
Thales plans to recruit 9,000 people in 2026 — and Google just signed on to power the classified workloads
Thales Group plans to recruit more than 9,000 employees worldwide in 2026, growing headcount by over 10% across defense, aerospace, and cyber divisions. Approximately 40% of new hires will fill engineering roles in AI, cybersecurity, and data. The company also announced a sovereign cloud partnership
Anduril raised $1.5B at a $14B valuation — then put its $400M headquarters up for sale
Anduril Industries raised $1.5B in Series F funding at a $14B valuation, a threefold jump from its prior round, co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital with Fidelity and Baillie Gifford joining. The valuation reflects a bet on recruiting scarce engineering talent away from Google, SpaceX, and AI l
SpaceX lost roughly $600B in market value over three days around its bond pricing. The index funds were buying the whole time.
SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 just 15 trading days after its June 2026 IPO, qualifying under a fast-tracked rule change for top-40 market-cap companies. The inclusion triggered an estimated $22 billion in passive fund buying, creating a persistent demand floor that supports the equity value central t
Oneleet raised $33M by breaking into companies that had just passed their SOC 2
Oneleet raised $33M in Series A to replace compliance theater with genuine security. The article also covers Mexico's mandatory biometric digital-ID mandate creating massive compliance demand, and the growing talent war for engineers who understand both security and regulatory frameworks.
The Army paid $2B for headsets soldiers couldn't wear. Anduril says the fix is a software company wearing a defense contractor's skin.
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril a $159 million contract to develop Soldier Borne Mission Command, a helmet-mounted mixed-reality platform replacing the troubled IVAS program. SBMC fuses night vision, augmented reality, and AI-driven tactical command for dismounted troops. Rivet received a parallel $19
Aemon beat Google DeepMind's record on $10 of compute. The next target is an entire job category.
Aemon is an autonomous research engineer that runs the full R&D loop without human intervention, reading literature, generating thousands of solution variants, and evolving the strongest candidates through successive iterations. The company set a new world record on the NP-hard circle packing proble
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