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Three companies we’ve partnered with have raised $1.1B in two weeks. Different frontiers, same pattern: each company was building technology ahead of the market’s vocabulary.

Antora Energy leads a New York Times feature on the rise of heat batteries. Nestled in the cornfields of eastern South Dakota, Antora’s array draws surplus wind power that would otherwise be curtailed and stores it as blistering heat—warming carbon blocks to as much as 4,352°F, then releasing that heat…

As we ascended into the mountains, our brains became lighter as our oxygen became fewer. Passing by Donner Summit reminded us of the Grit Theory, asking ourselves; how far can perseverance take us?

A $1.8 trillion economy — and humanity's future in space — is taking shape above our heads. Its frontiers are still unnamed. Learn how pioneering space brands claim orbits, minds, and markets before their competitors.

Overview Energy is featured in The Washington Post. Energy reporter Evan Halper spent a day at Overview's Ashburn HQ asking a serious question—can energy from space become a meaningful part of the world's power supply?—The piece takes that question seriously, including the hard parts. As demand for power accelerates, Overview…

Modal has raised a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation, led by Accel, and crossed $1B in annualized run-rate revenue. Usage has tripled since its Series C just five months ago, with growth north of 15x year-over-year.

Xona has cleared its final regulatory hurdle — the FCC has authorized full deployment of Pulsar, its 250+ satellite constellation and the first private network cleared to broadcast navigation signals alongside GPS.

A new The Wall Street Journal piece by Christopher Mims puts sodium-ion in the spotlight — welcome validation for Peak Energy, whose team has spent three years proving it's fundamentally better in every way that matters for the grid.

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Privy co-founder and CEO Henri Stern has been named to Stablecon's Stablecoins Most Influential list for 2026.

Privy co-founder and CEO Henri Stern has been named to Stablecon's Stablecoins Most Influential list for 2026.

Shaped, the machine learning company building real-time recommendation and search systems, has been acquired by livestream shopping platform Whatnot. The deal brings Shaped's technology in-house as Whatnot strengthens discovery and personalization across a marketplace that now spans millions of buyers and a rapidly widening set of product categories.

Antora is commissioning a 5 gigawatt-hour, multi-day thermal energy storage system at POET's bioprocessing facility in Big Stone City, South Dakota. The deployment ranks among the world's largest battery storage projects, delivered at the speed required to meet surging domestic energy demand.

Peak Energy and General Motors have announced a strategic partnership to scale next-generation energy storage for the grid, combining Peak's grid-scale storage platform with GM's battery and manufacturing expertise.To accelerate their market entry, Landscape partnered with Peak Energy to create a category-leading brand and site positioning their Sodium-Ion battery technology…

Variloom is partnering with WoolSource to unlock a new generation of bio-based materials for 3D-printed fashion. By pairing advanced manufacturing with Wool Source's Cradle to Cradle Certified materials, they're redefining what circular design can do—opening new opportunities for innovative and creative products.

A Tasting Menu for La Digestion (or Love Songs for Alice Waters) is a pre-performance essay by Connor Tomaka, Laszlo Horvath, and Satya Paul, shared here as a prelude to their June 5th performance at DOG. Structured as a meal — courses, a digestif, a coda — it moves across…

$355M raised. $4.65B valuation. Congrats to Modal on growing fivefold since September to surpass $300M in annualized revenue.

DataRobot's CPO was featured in Wall Street Journal making the case that real AI value comes from end-to-end workflow transformation, not individual productivity gains.

For DOG [E23] Taxonomy of Slop, Ruby Justice Thelot delivered a compelling lecture arguing that AI slop isn't a new phenomenon so much as the latest expression of dynamics that have been with us since the medieval fabliaux and Victorian penny dreadfuls.

Overview Energy just signed a 1 gigawatt-capacity reservation with Meta for space-based solar power — a landmark moment for the category.