A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO,… Read More »Mysterious financier asks judge to stop Canoo asset sale
The world has a trash problem. The amount of stuff we throw away is expected to nearly double, to 3.8 billion metric tons, by 2050.… Read More »Amazon-backed Glacier gets $16M to expand its robot recycling fleet
Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a former printing plant located in Warsaw, Indiana… Read More »Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, walked into the sunlight-lit hotel conference room in Brooklyn on Thursday to meet with a dozen youth leaders working in… Read More »Prince Harry meets, funds youth groups advocating for social media and AI safety
Flex, a startup that offers personal finance software for business owners, has acquired Maza, a finance app aimed at Spanish speakers in the U.S., for… Read More »Flex acquires a16z-backed Maza for $40M as fintech M&A heats up
Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in… Read More »Chess.com reaches 200 million members
In the span of a decade, direct air capture technology that draws CO2 out of the atmosphere has gone from wildly expensive to somewhat expensive.… Read More »RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries
Finding new sources of critical minerals is a costly business. Worldwide, companies spent $12 to $13 billion on exploration in 2023. The upshot: mining is… Read More »Durin digs up $3.4M to automate drills for critical minerals exploration
Xerion says it has a new technique to produce highly refined cobalt in a single step. Xerion says it has a new technique to produce… Read More »The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to change that.
As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized… Read More »Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup