DeepTech
NetApp Excellerator Accelerates Deep-Tech Innovation for the AI Era with Cohort 15
Bengaluru, India. – 16 October 2026 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the launch of the 15th cohort of its flagship startup accelerator program, NetApp Excellerator, welcoming five startups driving the next wave of AI innovation in the global deep tech ecosystem. The new cohort focuses on AI-powered software engineering, […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Execution, Security and Physical AI
AI funding this week was less about another race for the biggest model and more about everything required to put advanced intelligence to work. Capital moved into autonomous workflows, AI evaluation, runtime security, observability, developer infrastructure and enterprise data. Outside software, investors backed robotics, quantum computing, neural chips, satellite communications, healthcare infrastructure and agricultural intelligence. […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Builds the Full Stack From Agents to Physical AI
AI funding this week looked less like one market and more like an entire technology stack being financed simultaneously. At one end, investors wrote enormous checks for autonomous agents, cybersecurity, GPU infrastructure and physical AI. At the other, smaller rounds targeted sharply defined problems in compliance, construction, insurance, HR, industrial robotics, voice, energy and legal […]
Zenithon Raises $10M to Make Extreme Physics Iterate at AI Speed
A fusion reactor, rocket engine or semiconductor process can take days to simulate properly, which means even the best engineering teams are forced to explore only a fraction of the designs they could theoretically build. Zenithon is betting that AI can turn that bottleneck into an advantage. The UK AI startup has raised $10 million […]
Eureka! Venture €20M First Close for Deep Tech Lazio Fund
DeepTech companies rarely fail because the science is uninteresting. They often struggle in the expensive stretch between proving that a technology works and proving that industry can actually use it. Eureka! Venture’s new €20 million fund is designed to enter precisely at that point. The Italian investment firm has launched Eureka! Fund II – Deep […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into the Missing Layers of the AI Economy
AI funding this week looked less like a race to build another model and more like a race to build everything those models need. Capital moved into training data, AI clouds, enterprise agents, security and governance. At the same time, hundreds of millions flowed toward drug discovery, brain-computer interfaces, photonics, advanced materials, energy infrastructure and […]
AI Beyond the Model: The Funding Deals Shaping Tech This Week
AI funding did not belong to one layer of the stack this week. Large checks went into enterprise agents, inference infrastructure and AI governance, while capital simultaneously moved into batteries, medical imaging, defense lasers, space launch systems, quantum computing and renewable-energy finance. The pattern is becoming harder to ignore: investors are financing not only better […]
Hical Technologies Announces Commercial Launch and First Delivery of Indigenous Coreless BLDC Motor for Space Applications
India, 2nd September, 2026: Hical Technologies today announced the commercial launch and first customer delivery of its indigenously developed Coreless Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor for space applications, strengthening India’s ability to manufacture mission-critical satellite components locally. The product addresses a critical domestic capability gap in a technology category that has traditionally relied on imports. The […]
Nexeon Raises £100M to Scale Silicon Anode Battery Technology
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 […]
a16z Raises $1.1B Machine Age Fund for AI Hardware and Infrastructure
For most of the software era, money could buy engineers, distribution and time. It could not instantly erase a two-year technical lead. AI infrastructure is beginning to change that equation. More compute, memory, networking and electricity can translate directly into more capability, which means physical capacity is becoming part of the competitive advantage again. Andreessen […]
This Week in Funding: AI Capital Spreads Into Everything Around the Model
AI still commanded the biggest checks this week, but the more interesting pattern appeared underneath them. Capital moved into GPUs, physical AI, healthcare workflows, accounting, robotics, grid storage and quantum software. The model race is increasingly creating investment opportunities in everything models need to become useful. 🤖 AI & AI Infrastructure Alibaba raises HK$80B for […]
Voya Energy Raises $35M to Test Whether Electricity Can Travel as Metal
What if electricity did not always have to travel as electricity? Voya Energy is building around that question. Its system stores energy inside aluminum, moves that aluminum through conventional freight networks, and converts it into electricity where power is needed. A 10-foot fuel container is designed to hold roughly 100 MWh of stored energy, turning […]