At HyImpulse, one question still follows the company into conversations with regulators: You really build rockets with paraffin wax? Launch Licensing Manager Vittorio Di Pietrantonio jokes that even after years of development, people still struggle to believe it. Yet the unusual fuel has already moved far beyond an experiment. HyImpulse has flown it, scaled the […]
Europe’s energy transition is usually discussed in enormous numbers: gigawatts of solar, millions of heat pumps, national climate targets and billions of euros in infrastructure. For a homeowner, however, the decision can become much smaller and much more uncomfortable. A family can understand exactly why solar panels, a battery or a heat pump makes sense […]
Silicon has always looked like the obvious answer. It can hold around 10 times more lithium by mass than graphite, which makes it extraordinarily attractive for lithium-ion batteries. The problem is what happens when it actually does the job. Silicon expands as it charges, contracts as it discharges, and can gradually destroy the electrode around […]
Blue Machines AI will partner with five most ambitious CX AI initiatives from Indian financial institutions and invest its multi-crore platform, proprietary technology, engineering and deployment capacity to take them into production Bengaluru, 31 August 2026: Blue Machines AI, an advanced agentic CX operating system for enterprises, today announced Project Icebreaker, a sovereign AI co-innovation program for […]
A startup can find product-market fit and still break on the way to becoming a company. The first customers may come through founder obsession, personal networks and a willingness to sit inside every deal. The next hundred customers require something less romantic: hiring, segmentation, forecasting, revenue operations and a sales process that still works when […]
A protein model can propose a new sequence in seconds. Biology is less cooperative. Before anyone knows whether that sequence works, it has to become DNA, be expressed as a physical protein, survive quality control and then face an assay that measures what it actually does. In Adaptyv Bio’s current binding workflow, that journey can […]
A few hours changed the way Samantha Wong thinks about venture capital. When Wong met Craig Piggott, the founder of Halter, he had already entered into a Series A term sheet with a US investor. Blackbird eventually invested in a later round and continued backing the company. But Wong still remembers that first miss for […]
Dynatrace has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arize AI, the company that created the AI observability category 6 years ago. The deal is bigger than one acquisition: it marks the moment two separate markets, watching software and watching AI, quietly collapse into a single one. Some acquisitions buy a customer base or a revenue […]