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Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A ‘Deal GPS’ For Enterprise Sales

July 29, 2026

Centralize, an enterprise sales platform, emerges from stealth and shares exclusive news of its $15 million Series A funding round with ½ûÂþÌìÌà News.

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Artificial intelligence • Enterprise • Startups

The Biggest AI Talent Challenge Is Resilience, Not Speed

Guest Author

July 24, 2026

Engineering leaders should build highly adaptable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure instead of relying on expensive, unpredictable proprietary...

Artificial intelligence • Enterprise • IPO • M&A • Public Markets • Robotics • Startups • Venture

Welcome To The ‘Show Me’ Era: Sapphire Ventures’ Anders Ranum On What Separates Winning AI Startups From The Rest

Mary Ann Azevedo

July 13, 2026

To understand how institutional capital is navigating the gap between AI's public market software multiples and private market valuations, ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Communications tech • Enterprise • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Real estate & property tech • SaaS • Startups • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Energy And Biotech Lead The Way

Joanna Glasner

July 2, 2026

U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the way. Houston-based...

Artificial intelligence • Communications tech • Enterprise • Robotics • Seed funding • Startups • Venture

AT&T Ventures’ Head Vikram Taneja On The New Rules of Seed-Stage Defensibility

Mary Ann Azevedo

June 18, 2026

In an interview with ½ûÂþÌìÌà News, Vikram Taneja, head of AT&T Ventures, shares why he believes that while AI has drastically lowered the barrier...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Defense tech • Enterprise • Fintech • Robotics • SaaS • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Megarounds Proliferate, Led By Enterprise Software, AI, And Space Tech

Joanna Glasner

June 5, 2026

Startup investors were in a spendy mood this week, backing more than a dozen rounds in the multiple hundreds of millions. Of those, the biggest one...

Agriculture & foodtech • Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Defense tech • Enterprise • Manufacturing • Robotics • Seed funding • Startups • Venture

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk

Marlize van Romburgh

May 15, 2026

Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month are working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a...

Artificial intelligence • Enterprise • Fintech • Fintech & e-commerce • SaaS • Startups

Exclusive: Fazeshift Scores $17M As Investors Bet On AI-Powered Finance Ops, Starting With Accounts Receivable

Mary Ann Azevedo

May 7, 2026

Fazeshift, a startup that uses AI agents to automate accounts receivable, has raised $17 million in a Series A round of funding, it tells ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Defense tech • Enterprise • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Manufacturing • Robotics • SaaS • Sales & Marketing • Startups • Transportation & Logistics • Venture

Frontier Labs And Robotics Companies Again Top List Of New Unicorns In April 

Gené Teare

May 6, 2026

A total of 28 companies joined The ½ûÂþÌìÌà Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the...

Artificial intelligence • Business • Enterprise • Startups

Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development

Mary Ann Azevedo

May 5, 2026

Blitzy, an autonomous software development startup, said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion, making it the...

Artificial intelligence • Defense tech • Enterprise • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Startups • Transportation & Logistics • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Varied Week For Big Deals, Led By AI And Defense

Joanna Glasner

March 27, 2026

The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI’s disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings went...