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seatXchange

Los Angeles, CA, US

Founded

2016

Stage

Angel

Total Raised

$1.1M

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SpaceX deal to acquire spectrum license hammers shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile

SpaceX agreed to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio as it to pushes its Starlink service deeper into the U.S. telecommunications market.

Oct 8, 2026

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AI agent developer Manus raises $500M+ at reported $4B valuation

Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It stated that private equity firm Boyu Capital led the investment with contributions from Tencent Holdings Ltd., one of China’s largest tec

Oct 8, 2026

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Evy Tea

Boston, MA, US

Founded

2014

Stage

Pre-Seed

Total Raised

$1.6M

Catheter Connections

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Founded

2008

Stage

Seed

Total Raised

$7.7M

MC10

Cambridge, MA, US

Founded

2008

Stage

Series A

Total Raised

$97.4M

EchoNous

Redmond, WA, US

Founded

2016

Stage

Series A

Total Raised

$194M

Inflammatix

Burlingame, CA, US

Founded

2016

Stage

Series D

Total Raised

$137.8M

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Apple Inc., already set to introduce a revamped smart home strategy next week, is planning a second launch in October to introduce …

Oct 8, 2026

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The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Block Inc., the parent of Square and Cash App, violated US consumer protection laws …

Oct 8, 2026

Anthropic launches AI push to protect critical infrastructure

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Oct 8, 2026

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Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling cited "multiple active federal investigations" around the two companies' involvement in the program Thursday.

Oct 8, 2026

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Oct 8, 2026

A startup founder who served time in prison is looking to court an untapped market: ex-cons

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Oct 8, 2026

GlobalFoundries Rallies After Announcing $2 Billion TSMC Deal

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Oct 8, 2026

Exclusive: Gallatin raises $50M for futuristic military logistics

Gallatin AI raised a $50 million Series A, with defense-tech frequent fliers 8VC and Silent Ventures pitching in, CEO Woody Glier told Axios.

Oct 8, 2026

China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta

Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.

Oct 8, 2026

Sequoia-backed Catalyst raises $30 million to build AI trading agents for everyday investors

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Oct 8, 2026

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Automation Anywhere acquires Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI

Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, from Nordic Capital. The firm seeks to build the “autonomous enterprise,” an operating model where bus

Oct 8, 2026

Microsoft responds to White House immigration crackdown as Trump honors Nadella

The Trump administration suspended Microsoft from the federal program the company uses to help foreign workers stay in the U.S. permanently, accusing the tech giant of abusing the system. The announcement by Vice President JD Vance, during a news conference Thursday morning at the White House, came

Oct 8, 2026

Rocket fuel: Seattle-area startups raise a record $3.5B as national VC funding cools

Seattle-area startups raised $3.5 billion in venture capital in the third quarter, the most in any quarter going back at least a decade, led by big rounds for Kent-based rocket maker Stoke Space, Bellevue developer platform Temporal and Everett fusion company Helion. That’s more than triple the $1 b

Oct 8, 2026

Liquid AI builds personal AI around device-level context

Liquid AI builds personal AI around device-level context, efficient models and continuous improvement, helping agents work within fixed hardware limits.

Oct 8, 2026

Overland AI unveils IBEX, a new autonomous ground vehicle selected by the Marine Corps

Seattle defense startup Overland AI has unveiled IBEX, a new fully autonomous ground vehicle selected by the U.S. Marine Corps to support counter-drone air defense operations and execute high-risk frontline missions, including resupply, breaching, and electronic warfare. IBEX was developed under a D

Oct 8, 2026

Oratomic raises $475M for neutral-atom quantum computing, Universal Quantum nets $100M+

Two startups pursuing different approaches to quantum computing announced major funding rounds today. California-based Oratomic, which uses reconfigurable neutral-atom arrays, raised $475 million, while United Kingdom-based Universal Quantum Ltd., which develops modular trapped-ion systems, raised m

Oct 8, 2026

Harness acquires Augment Code to bridge software engineering from idea to deployment

Autonomous software delivery lifecycle platform Harness Inc. today announced that it has acquired select assets from Augment Code Computing Inc. and the company’s team will join the company. Harness is a software delivery company that provides an autonomous, artificial intelligence-driven platform t

Oct 8, 2026

Darwinium launches two intent intelligence capabilities to catch fraud by AI agents

Fraud prevention startup Darwinium UK Ltd. today launched two new capabilities that make intent intelligence the foundation of its platform. Journey Transition Probability flags unusual changes in the steps a person, bot or artificial intelligence agent takes on the way to a login, account change or

Oct 8, 2026

Rein Security raises $25M to rein in insecure AI agents

Rein Security Inc. said today it’s trying to help enterprises protect themselves against two distinct security threats relating to agentic artificial intelligence after raising $25 million in early-stage funding from Glilot Capital, Sienna Venture Capital, Corner Ventures, Atlacle and RNP Capital Ad

Oct 8, 2026

Amazon confirms job cuts impacting hundreds of employees in retail unit

Amazon laid off hundreds of employees this week in its Stores business, which runs the company’s main e-commerce site — the latest in a series of smaller job cuts in recent months. Customer service, selling partner support and retail engineering teams were among those hit, according to internal Slac

Oct 8, 2026

With GPT-6, ChatGPT’s responses are much more visually appealing and interactive

OpenAI Group PBC says ChatGPT is moving away from its traditional wall-of-text responses and giving users a more interactive user interface to play with. In a media briefing today, the company said its GPT-6 models will now be able to access an “Intelligent UI” that will allow the chatbot to generat

Oct 7, 2026

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