Daily Tech, Startups & VC News Podcast
Season 2026 · Episode 39 · 08:56 ·
Meta invests $900M in CRED at $4.5B valuation with Shah heading WhatsApp; launches new Meta Glasses starting at $299; Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs and Lazada trims 5% SEA staff amid restructurings.
Season 2026 · Episode 38 · 11:32 ·
Valve unveils Steam Machine hardware pricing starting at $1,049 with reservations; Oracle discloses 21,000 job cuts in annual filing; SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea's top company by market cap. Also covers Bending Spoons IPO plans, Broadcom financing, and space/hardware funding rounds.
Season 2026 · Episode 37 · 09:55 ·
Covers Andera's $37M Series A, Katalyst Space's $12M round, Tower-Marvell's 5M IC shipments, Apple-Intel US manufacturing pact, Conduct's $60M raise, GATE Space's €6.3M, France's €13B tech push, Fundstreet's $45.5M note, Architect Labs' $24M seed, and 11 other funding or hardware updates from the period.
Season 2026 · Episode 36 · 09:32 ·
Snap launches $2,195 Specs AR glasses with fall shipments; Asensus Surgical cuts 108 jobs in robotics restructuring; EigenQ agrees to $3B SPAC merger while Go completes Tokyo IPO and other SPAC activity unfolds.
Season 2026 · Episode 35 · 09:44 ·
Eclipse raises $23M Series A for battery storage expansion. Flutterwave hits $3.25B valuation in funding round. Apple confirms product price increases due to memory chip shortages. Expeditors and BBC announce job cuts.
Season 2026 · Episode 34 · 07:52 ·
Coherent lands $50M CHIPS support for Texas chip plant expansion; Robinhood trims 10% staff in restructuring; Phoenix Tailings secures $500M Pentagon loan for rare earth facility. Plus startup rounds, secondary offerings, and hardware updates.
Season 2026 · Episode 33 · 11:50 ·
Fox acquires Roku in $22 billion deal; DOJ clears Paramount's $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition; BBC News faces hundreds of job cuts in £500 million savings push. Other stories include small hardware and startup funding rounds plus device advancements.
Season 2026 · Episode 32 · 10:52 ·
Covers Clip's $500M funding and $2.5B+ valuation, Fortify's $2.5M 3D printing round, multiple tech layoffs and restructurings at Salesforce and ServiceNow, Adtran and euNetworks hardware launches, and other startup funding, M&A, and gadget/software releases from June 12-14.
Season 2026 · Episode 31 · 11:02 ·
Covers Theker's $85M Series A for generalist factory robots, GMEX Robotics sensor mount debut, Pelican Acquisition II $75M tech SPAC filing, JAB Acquisition Corp IPO close, and additional hardware, funding, and strategy moves.
Season 2026 · Episode 30 · 11:14 ·
Covers TDK's Fabric8Labs acquisition, major layoffs at Intuit and Wix, robotics funding at Standard Bots, chip manufacturing updates from Infineon and Texas Instruments, plus smaller funding rounds and IPO activity.
Season 2026 · Episode 29 · 12:18 ·
Covers Super Micro Computer's $7 billion equity financing for server hardware production, Zepto's IPO filing targeting up to $837 million raise, Helion's $465 million round at $15.5 billion valuation for fusion manufacturing, plus layoffs at Wix and Google Cloud and hardware moves in chips and drones.
Season 2026 · Episode 28 · 11:27 ·
Iceye hits €10B+ valuation with major funding; NewOrbit secures $18.5M for VLEO satellites; Powerex gets $30M CHIPS for semiconductor manufacturing; plus small seed rounds, Google Cloud restructuring, and Apple software updates.
Season 2026 · Episode 27 · 07:33 ·
Covers Apex satellite funding doubling to $2.3B valuation, GM's $900M EV battery push, Supabase $500M raise at $10.5B valuation, Volund manufacturing seed, Helion fusion round, chip stock selloff, and other funding, hardware, and strategy moves from the period.
Season 2026 · Episode 26 · 12:21 ·
Ramp hits $44B valuation with $750M round; USA Rare Earth secures up to $1.6B CHIPS funding for supply chain; tech layoffs hit 38k in May; COMPUTEX brings AMD, Intel, Qualcomm hardware announcements.
Season 2026 · Episode 25 · 11:45 ·
FirstClub doubles valuation with $55M round; GitLab slashes 350 jobs in restructuring; Impulse Space closes $500M Series D at over $4B valuation. Also covers Strava IPO prep moves, big tech capital raises, and other startup fundings and headcount changes.
Season 2026 · Episode 24 · 11:33 ·
Apple readies iOS 27 receipt-photo bill splitter; xLight lands $150M CHIPS for EUV laser prototype; Scapia closes $63M round; NewLimit raises $435M Series C; Meta expands global teen safety settings; Taiwan demos robot patrol dogs; Endorfy previews PC hardware; Valve delays Steam Machine over RAM issues.
Season 2026 · Episode 23 · 11:49 ·
Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation with $300M round; Unastella closes $24M Series B for rockets; Maxwell Power secures $750M for batteries plus other funding, M&A and hardware moves.
Season 2026 · Episode 22 · 11:52 ·
Covers Dell's $699 XPS 13 and Acer's $699 Swift Air 14 launches, Qualcomm Snapdragon C chip announcement, Picogrid's $45M round, SoftBank's €75B French data centers, and other hardware and funding news from May 29-31.
Season 2026 · Episode 21 · 12:07 ·
MiRus lands $1.5B from Boston Scientific for medical devices. Wix cuts 1,000 jobs or 20% of staff. Groupon trims 400 positions or 23% workforce. Plus FDA clearances, manufacturing orders and other hardware and restructuring moves.
Season 2026 · Episode 20 · 12:00 ·
Covers Stord's $250M Series F at $3B valuation for logistics tech, Thea Energy's $100M Series B to expand magnet manufacturing for fusion plants, ClearNote Health's $52M Series D for cancer detection products, Lilly's $780M LimmaTech acquisition, and Micron and SK Hynix hitting $1T market caps.
Season 2026 · Episode 19 · 11:35 ·
Micron hits $1 trillion market cap amid chip rally; FortuneX and Burtech close SPAC IPOs; Hadron Energy de-SPACs; Valve ships Steam Deck beta update; Philips launches SmartIQ imaging tech; Oregon colleges secure semiconductor grants.
Season 2026 · Episode 18 · 12:09 ·
ClickUp lays off 22% of its workforce; Huawei unveils Tau Scaling Law targeting 1.4nm-equivalent chips by 2031; Amca raises $300M for aerospace parts and Boston Metal secures $75M for metals production among major funding rounds totaling over $2B.
Season 2026 · Episode 17 · 11:00 ·
Covers Oura's confidential IPO filing for its smart ring, Yamaha Motor's new robotics support facility in India, SolarSquare's up to $60M funding talks in solar hardware, Meta's quiet Forum app launch, Xreal smartglasses progress, and 15 other funding, hardware, gadget, and strategy stories from the period.
Season 2026 · Episode 16 · 11:17 ·
Covers Commerce's $2B quantum hardware incentives, three SPAC IPOs raising $325M, Hesai's European LiDAR deals, UCLA's $125M semiconductor hub, Bloom Energy surge, multiple startup rounds including Pivot and Socket, China robotics push, and other hardware and M&A moves.
Season 2026 · Episode 15 · 11:05 ·
Mercury lands $200M at $5.2B valuation in fintech uptick. Intuit slashes 17% of jobs to streamline. Multiple startups close Series A and C rounds including Viktor at $75M and Primer at $100M.
Season 2026 · Episode 14 · 10:33 ·
Google partners on audio smart glasses for fall release with Warby Parker and Samsung. Cerebras raises $5.6 billion in the year's biggest IPO. Meta readies 8,000 layoffs and 7,000 reassignments in May 20 restructuring. Covers startup funding rebounds, robotics deliveries and hardware expansions.
Season 2026 · Episode 13 · 11:57 ·
This episode covers Rapido's $240 million funding at $3 billion valuation, Sigma Computing's $80 million Series E, Cisco's plan to cut 4,000 jobs, Uber's $1.8 billion stake increase in Delivery Hero, and other funding rounds, layoffs, acquisitions, and hardware strategy moves.
Season 2026 · Episode 12 · 11:59 ·
Covers Star Catcher's $65M space power raise, Cerebras Nasdaq IPO debut with valuation surge, Rapido's $240M round, GovWell and Nectar Social funding, plus Samsung strike plans and Sensata tender offers.
Season 2026 · Episode 11 · 13:02 ·
This episode covers major workforce reductions at Takeda and LinkedIn, Oishii's $150 million Series C for vertical farming scale-up, UMC's 14nm chip technology launch, IQM's Nasdaq listing filing, and robotics hardware deployments plus IPO activity.
Season 2026 · Episode 10 · 12:35 ·
Anduril closed a $5 billion round at a $61 billion valuation. Fervo Energy raised $1.89 billion in its IPO and popped 33 percent on debut. Mind Robotics secured another $400 million, alongside Cisco's 4,000 job cuts and Blackstone's $2 billion infrastructure IPO.
Season 2026 · Episode 9 · 13:28 ·
Lime files for IPO amid $1B liabilities and revenue surge. Havoc lands $100M for autonomous vessels. QuantWare closes $178M quantum chip round. Samsung hits $1T valuation on memory demand. Major game launches and Sony PS6 confirmation highlight the day.
Season 2026 · Episode 8 · 12:42 ·
Starbucks cuts 61 tech jobs in Seattle, Moment Energy raises $40M for EV battery gigafactory, Amazon launches Supply Chain Services to compete with UPS and FedEx, Avalanche Energy wins DOD nuclear battery award, plus funding rounds, hardware shipments, gaming leadership changes and IPO updates.
Season 2026 · Episode 7 · 12:12 ·
Ramp eyes over $40 billion valuation in new funding round, Rocket Lab acquires space robotics firm Motiv, Truecaller cuts 70 jobs, Microsoft teases Xbox dashboard overhaul, Valve delays Steam Machine due to RAM shortages, and Game Pass adds major titles.
Season 2026 · Episode 6 · 13:10 ·
Covers HawkEye 360's $416 million IPO at $2.4 billion valuation, Samsung's full exit from China TV and home appliance sales, Cloudflare's 1,100-job cut, Upwork and BILL restructurings, Google's Fitbit Air launch, Arm's smartphone warning, and gaming releases plus robotics and funding moves on May 7.
Season 2026 · Episode 5 · 07:27 ·
This episode details the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, active exploitation of cPanel flaws compromising websites, and a Daemon Tools supply chain backdoor attack. It also covers North Korean gaming platform malware and healthcare data sharing pauses.
Season 2026 · Episode 4 · 08:03 ·
This episode covers Intel securing a major custom chip supply deal with Apple, reMarkable's launch of the Paper Pure e-ink tablet, and the ADT home security data breach exposing 5.5 million records, alongside hardware releases, software updates, and other cybersecurity developments.
Season 2026 · Episode 3 · 08:11 ·
AMD posted strong Q1 results with surging data center revenue. Samsung is withdrawing from the Chinese consumer electronics market. Microsoft previewed a unified Xbox interface. Cybersecurity saw new ransomware claims and Qualcomm patches. New gadgets from Minisforum and ZOTAC also debuted.
Season 2026 · Episode 2 · 07:49 ·
This episode covers a major DDoS attack disrupting Ubuntu and Canonical services, a widespread breach of the Canvas learning management system exposing student data, and Meta threatening to withdraw its platforms from New Mexico over child safety demands. It also includes critical Linux vulnerabilities and big tech infrastructure updates.
Season 2026 · Episode 1 · 07:29 ·
Apple achieves record sales during Tim Cook's CEO transition amid chip shortage concerns; global PC shipments grow 4% led by Apple hardware; Instructure's Canvas platform hit by major data breach affecting thousands of schools along with other cybersecurity incidents.