Startups

A Y Combinator alum that bolts sensors onto industrial machines raised $130M and crossed into unicorn territory. The real story isn't the valuation — it's the $1.4 trillion annual downtime problem it's chasing.

Former Slack CPO Noah Desai Weiss and ex-Browser Company engineering lead Dolapo Falola left stealth with $34M and an Accel-led pre-seed to build a shared context engine: the layer that tells an AI agent what your team already knows.

Oxide Computer announced a $445M Series D led by Eclipse. The company builds a full-stack 'Cloud Computer' rack enterprises own outright — and says it has to scale manufacturing because demand is running ahead of what it can build.

Sequoia led a $60M Series B into Mecka, with Nvidia, Microsoft's M12, Qualcomm and Samsung alongside. The bet isn't a robot — it's a dataset of real human motion, and a revenue curve that already looks nothing like an early-stage startup's.