September 18, 2026

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The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs: From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch. Read More

Pulley, a Carta rival, is shutting down: Cap table management platform Pulley, backed by General Catalyst, Stripe, and Founders Fund, announced that it's closing shop in December. Read More

AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia's dominance: The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive. Read More

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Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel: Fluxnium's fibers can extract uranium directly from seawater, which has enough of the nuclear fuel to power thousands of generations. Read More

PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI: If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be. Read More

Former Infosys chief's AI startup nabs another $53M: The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch. Read More

Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Read More

Open or closed AI? Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into superhot-rock geothermal: Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7. Read More

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