Nvidia Robotics Veteran Amulya Vishwanath Launches Techable VC to Back Physical AI
Amulya Vishwanath, who led product marketing for Nvidia's robotics platforms for seven years.
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TechCrunch StartupsAI Score1818 TechCrunch VentureAI Score1818 Nvidia robotics alum Amulya Vishwanath says robotics is still in its "Lego era"
Amulya Vishwanath, who led product marketing for Nvidia's robotics platforms for seven years.
Tech Funding NewsAI Score2222 Bolt Graphics Seeks $100M at $700M Valuation for Zeus GPU to Challenge Nvidia and AMD
Bolt Graphics is seeking about $100M at a roughly $700M valuation for its Zeus GPU.
TechCrunch StartupsAI Score2222 Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles
Veritas launched a second-generation anti-counterfeit chip that works on metal surfaces and can be scanned through glass.
Fortune Term SheetAI Score2222 Does a Robot Cost $2 or $35 an Hour? Physical AI's Trillion-Dollar Market Hinges on Utilization
Robot hourly costs range from $2 (Roland Berger) to $10-$12 (JPMorgan) to over $35 in early industrial deployments.
Tech Funding NewsAI Score4040 Alef Aeronautics Flies Electric Car Over Tesla Roadster on 1,000th Flight
Alef Aeronautics flew its electric flying car over Tesla's new Roadster on its 1.
SiliconANGLETop DealsAI Score6262 Mueon raises $65M Series A to develop 3D computing modules
Data center hardware startup Mueon raised $65 million in a Series A led by Maverick Silicon.
Why it matters: Mueon's $65M Series A shows investors backing 3D-stacked server designs as a route to denser, cheaper AI compute.
GeekWireAI Score4242 TriMagnetix raises $1M to build radiation-resistant, ultra-low-energy chips for space
Seattle-based TriMagnetix raised $1M from Acequia Capital.
SiliconANGLEAI Score2222 Cerebras pitches inference speed as the edge in agentic AI
Cerebras is positioning inference speed as the deciding factor in agentic AI.
Tech Funding NewsTop DealsAI Score8080 Oxford photonics startup Salience Labs raises $125M Series B led by Bullhound
Salience Labs, a photonic chip startup based in Milton, Oxfordshire, raised an oversubscribed $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital.
Why it matters: The round shows chipmakers spreading photonics bets across optical I/O, interconnect and switching layers, giving readers a concrete read on where AI data-center networking money is going.
Tech.euSame newsAI Score7878 Salience Labs raises $125M Series B for photonic AI data centre chips
Salience Labs raised $125 million in an oversubscribed Series B led by Bullhound Capital.
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SiliconANGLESame newsAI Score7575 Salience Labs raises $125M Series B for optical AI data center switches
Salience Labs raised a $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with Intel Capital.
Same story, shown in Top Deals《Oxford photonics startup Salience Labs raises $125M Series B led by Bullhound》
SiliconANGLEAI Score6060 xMEMS starts mass-producing solid-state cooling chips for AI hardware
xMEMS Labs has begun mass production of its XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 solid-state active cooling chips.
SiliconANGLEAI Score2222 theCUBE to Cover SEMICON West on Oct. 14: AI-Powered Engineering and Physics Intelligence
theCUBE will livestream coverage of SEMICON West on Oct. 14 in San Francisco.
GeekWireAI Score2222 Tally inventory robot roams Seattle Fred Meyer as Kroger weighs automation push
Simbe Robotics' Tally, an autonomous inventory robot using computer vision and AI.
GeekWireTop DealsAI Score7171 Kapta Space raises $24M Series A for satellite radar sensors
Seattle startup Kapta Space raised $24 million in a Series A led by Washington Harbour Partners.
Why it matters: Kapta's $24M Series A shows defense-tech investors backing cheaper steerable radar for satellite constellations, a niche where Seattle hardware startups are gaining traction.
TechCrunch VentureTop DealsAI Score8080 Robot data startup Mecka AI raises $60M Series B led by Sequoia
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid and other robots.
Why it matters: Mecka AI's $60M Series B shows how human-motion data collection is becoming a funded layer for robot training, with Nvidia and M12 joining Sequoia.
TechCrunch VentureTop DealsAI Score6666 Ghost raises $11M seed led by a16z for $3,499 personal AI computer
Ghost emerged from stealth with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build Core.
Why it matters: Ghost's $11M seed and $3,499 Core box show how founders are pitching dedicated local hardware for always-on personal AI agents.
TechCrunch FundraisingAI Score4242 Thiel Capital's Jack Selby Wins Etched Stake via Arizona TSMC Ties
Jack Selby's Copper Sky Capital landed an allocation in Etched's $120 million Series A partly by promising to help the $5 billion chip startup reshore fabrication to Arizona. Selby.
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