The European startup market is ready for the limelight

Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round ; plus, this startup can track objects within 3 cm

After SEC investigation, Curastory founder resigns, hires replacement

Cavela lands $6.6M to help brands beat pre-tariff manufacturing costs; plus Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation

Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easier

Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into bookable itineraries

Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt as consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT

Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework; plus Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan

Is Jeff Bezos returning to the trenches with a new AI startup? Also, Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar

How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit; plus Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you

How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start

6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind

Knicks player Miles McBride launches Mmotion, a location-sharing friendship app, also, Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off

How startups can lure good talent fairly without big tech bank accounts

How one founder plans to save cities from flooding with terraforming robots; plus Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund