Code Metal Secures $125M Series B, Welcomes Ryan Aytay as President and COO
Code Metal just put a very loud marker down in the mission-critical AI space, closing a $125 million Series B round led by Salesforce Ventures,…
DG Matrix Raises $60M Series A to Rewire Power Infrastructure for the AI Age
DG Matrix has just crossed a serious threshold, closing an oversubscribed $60 million Series A round that pushes its total funding past the $100 million…
Why ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Atlassian Are Selling Off—and Whether the AI Fear Is Overdone
The sharp declines in ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Atlassian in early 2026 have started to feel less like isolated stock moves and more like a collective…
Infleqtion Rings the NYSE Bell
Infleqtion has officially stepped onto the public stage, beginning trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker INFQ following the completion of its…
Temporal Raises $300M Series D at $5B Valuation to Take Agentic AI Into Production
Temporal, the open-source platform quietly sitting underneath some of the most demanding distributed systems in the world, has just landed a $300 million Series D…
ChipAgents Secures $50M Series A1, Reinforcing the Shift Toward Agentic AI in Chip Design
ChipAgents just crossed an important line in the sand for the semiconductor industry, announcing an oversubscribed $50 million Series A1 round that brings its total…
Render Raises $100M Series C Extension, Valued at $1.5B, Betting Big on the AI-Native Cloud
Render just crossed a psychological and strategic milestone, raising $100 million in an extension of its Series C round and landing at a $1.5 billion…
Uptiq Raises $25M Series B to Push Financial AI Out of the Demo Trap
Uptiq, the AI platform purpose-built for financial services, just closed a $25 million Series B round, and the framing of the announcement matters almost as…
From Desk to Flight: High-Value 3D Printing Ideas for a Home Premise
What makes a home-based 3D printing business actually work isn’t the printer, it’s the decision to stay away from decorative fluff and move straight into…
Positron AI Raises $230M Series B, Redefines the Economics of AI Inference
Positron AI just crossed the line from promising upstart to structural threat in the AI infrastructure market, announcing an oversubscribed $230 million Series B at…
What You Can Build in Loveable, and Why It Feels Different
Loveable sits in that interesting space where building software stops feeling like engineering and starts feeling like thinking out loud. You don’t arrive with a…
Forrester Sees Global Tech Spending Hitting $5.6 Trillion in 2026 as AI Drives Growth Despite Tariffs
Global technology spending is heading into 2026 with a confidence that feels earned rather than speculative, as Forrester projects worldwide tech outlays to grow by…
Chiplets Explained: How Modern Chips Are Really Built
Chiplets are small, specialized pieces of a semiconductor chip that are designed separately and then assembled together inside a single package to function as one…
January 31, 2026 — Tech & Markets Day Digest
Today’s news cycle feels like one of those hinge days that only look chaotic until you step back and notice the pattern quietly forming. At…
DealHub Raises $100M to Redefine Enterprise Quote-to-Revenue
DealHub’s $100 million growth round, led by Riverwood Capital, feels less like a routine funding announcement and more like a directional signal for the entire…
Preply Reaches $1.2B Valuation After $150M Series D to Scale Human-Led, AI-Enhanced Language Learning
Preply just crossed the line that quietly separates fast-growing startups from category-defining companies, closing a $150 million Series D round that values the global language…
Datarails Raises $70M Series C to Turn the CFO’s Office into an AI-Native Nerve Center
Datarails just crossed a line that matters, not because of the number itself, but because of what the money is clearly meant to accelerate. The…
Emergent Raises $70M Series B as AI Turns Software Creation Into an Entrepreneurial Commodity
A quiet but fundamental shift is happening in how businesses get created, and Emergent’s latest funding round is a loud signal that investors finally see…
Fujifilm Introducing SX400: A Long-Range Camera Designed for the Real World
Fujifilm’s latest long-range camera, the SX400, feels like a quiet but deliberate shift in how industrial imaging is being positioned, less as fixed infrastructure and…
D-Wave Becomes the First Dual-Platform Quantum Computing Company After Quantum Circuits Acquisition
D-Wave Quantum Inc. has just crossed a line the rest of the quantum industry has been talking about for years but not quite reaching: it…
Wasabi Technologies Secures $70M to Fuel the Next Phase of AI-Ready Cloud Storage
A fresh wave of capital is flowing into the cloud storage layer that quietly underpins everything from generative AI experiments to global media pipelines, and…
Samsung Maintenance Mode: The Quiet Feature That Actually Changed How I Buy Phones
Buying a smartphone today isn’t really about megapixels or benchmarks anymore, not for me at least. It’s about trust. About what happens when the phone…
Miro AI Workflows Launch: From Whiteboard Chaos to Enterprise-Grade Deliverables
What usually happens after a workshop ends is familiar and a little painful: screenshots exported, sticky notes copied, half-remembered insights rewritten into documents days later,…
10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026
MIT Technology Review has released its annual Innovation issue, unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026, and this year’s list feels particularly charged, like a…