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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 learning marketplace at $1.2 billion. The round was led by WestCap, a firm known for scaling marketplaces like Airbnb and StubHub, with Goldman Sachs International acting as sole placement agent, and it … [Read more...] about Preply Reaches $1.2B Valuation After $150M Series D to Scale Human-Led, AI-Enhanced Language Learning

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 Excel-native finance platform has raised $70 million in Series C funding, bringing total funding to $175 million, and the message is unambiguous: this is no longer an FP&A tool trying to grow up, it’s a full operating system for the … [Read more...] about Datarails Raises $70M Series C to Turn the CFO’s Office into an AI-Native Nerve Center

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 it too. The fast-growing AI software creation platform has raised $70 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Prosus, Lightspeed, Together, and Y Combinator, … [Read more...] about Emergent Raises $70M Series B as AI Turns Software Creation Into an Entrepreneurial Commodity

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 more as something that can move, adapt, and be deployed almost on demand. This is a lens-integrated camera, yes, but the emphasis here isn’t just integration for the sake of neat engineering; it’s about reducing … [Read more...] about Fujifilm Introducing SX400: A Long-Range Camera Designed for the Real World

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 now officially operates two fundamentally different quantum computing platforms under one roof. With the completed acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., D-Wave is no longer only the company that commercialized quantum annealing—it is now … [Read more...] about D-Wave Becomes the First Dual-Platform Quantum Computing Company After Quantum Circuits Acquisition

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 this time the spotlight lands squarely on Wasabi Technologies. The Boston-based company has announced a $70 million equity funding round led by L2 Point Management, with strategic participation from Pure Storage and … [Read more...] about Wasabi Technologies Secures $70M to Fuel the Next Phase of AI-Ready Cloud Storage

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 leaves your hands and enters someone else’s. This is where Samsung, almost casually, did something profoundly right with Maintenance Mode, and once you’ve used it, it’s genuinely hard to go back. On a modern Samsung Galaxy, … [Read more...] about Samsung Maintenance Mode: The Quiet Feature That Actually Changed How I Buy Phones

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, momentum quietly leaking away. With the launch of AI Workflows for enterprise customers, Miro is making a clear claim that this gap between ideation and execution should no longer exist. The new … [Read more...] about Miro AI Workflows Launch: From Whiteboard Chaos to Enterprise-Grade Deliverables

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 snapshot taken right at the hinge of something big. Now marking its 25th year, the annual selection has become a kind of barometer for where technological ambition is actually crystallizing into reality, not … [Read more...] about 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026

Samsung didn’t just add long zoom to smartphones — it normalized it. With the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and later the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, the company quietly turned x10 optical zoom into a tool you actually planned around. This wasn’t moon-shot gimmickry or spec-sheet bravado. It was a real, physical 10× periscope lens that behaved like a small telephoto camera you … [Read more...] about Samsung Walked Away From Long Zoom — And Left a Gap It Once Owned