COI Energy’s innovative marketplace enables enterprises to monetize unused electricity capacity. The startup addresses a fundamental inefficiency in commercial energy allocation, but faces significant regulatory and technical challenges.
Forge Global, a leading platform for trading private company shares, is exploring a sale after its market value collapsed 90%. The move reflects deeper challenges in secondary markets as startups delay IPOs and competition intensifies.
South Africa’s FirstRand makes strategic $19 per share investment in AI-powered fintech Optasia concurrent with its JSE listing. The move represents a calculated bet on emerging markets financial inclusion through technology partnerships.
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni have secured $8 million in seed funding for their AI fashion app Phia, amassing 600,000 users since April launch. The 23-year-old Stanford graduates are taking on tech giants with a Gen Z-focused approach to AI shopping assistance, sharing hard-won entrepreneurial less
Leading investors and analysts are raising alarms about an unsustainable AI investment bubble as capital expenditures dramatically outpace returns. Industry experts suggest the current hype cycle mirrors previous technology bubbles that ended in significant financial losses.
Prominent investors and technology executives are increasingly warning that artificial intelligence investments have reached bubble territory, with capital expenditures dramatically outpacing potential returns, according to multiple financial analyses. Lauren Taylor Wolfe, co-founder of activist investment firm Impactive Capital, recently told CNBC she is avoiding AI-related investments despite the current bullish market environment, citing concerns about Wall Street’s “near-total fixation” on artificial intelligence among major technology corporations.
Venus Aerospace has secured strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures following its historic high-thrust test flight. The partnership aims to accelerate next-generation propulsion technology for defense and commercial applications. Industry analysts project massive growth in aerospace and defense propulsion markets.
Venus Aerospace, a pioneering company in advanced rocket engine technology, has reportedly received a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin through its venture capital arm, Lockheed Martin Ventures. According to reports, this investment follows Venus’s successful high-thrust test flight of its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) conducted in May 2025.
The final round of Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will be judged by some of venture capital’s most influential figures. These industry leaders will determine which startup wins the $100,000 equity-free prize in one of the year’s most anticipated pitch competitions.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is set to feature an all-star panel of venture capital leaders as judges for the Startup Battlefield 200 finals, according to event organizers. The competition, scheduled for October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, will see finalists competing for a $100,000 equity-free prize before what sources indicate are some of the industry’s most respected investors.
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