Lucid Motors’ Gravity SUV will have Tesla charging built in

Lucid Motors is just a few months away from finally launching its electric SUV, and the company now says the upcoming vehicle — dubbed Gravity — will have Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) built right in, making an adapter unnecessary. Lucid announced the news ahead

MariaDB goes private with new CEO as K1 closes acquisition

MariaDB‘s short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management. MariaDB also announced a new CEO in former Micro Focus executive Rohit de Souza, who replaces Paul O’Brien after just 16 mon

JFrog deepens its partnership with GitHub, launches runtime security service

Earlier this year, software supply chain platform (and binary specialist) JFrog announced a partnership with GitHub that, among other things, allowed developers and the teams that support them to trace code from source to binary package across the two platforms. On Tuesday, at JFrog’s SwampUp

Qualifyze swallows $54M to improve pharmaceutical supply chains

In the world of pharmaceuticals, companies aim to operate under GMP guidelines — a set of production and manufacturing measures to assure standards for medicinal products. But too often, the reality is anything but that.  “Officially, GMP stands for 'Good Manufacturing Practices,'

StackGen raises $12.3M for its infrastructure-from-code service

AppCD is a startup that aims to make it easier for developers to set up infrastructure to run their applications by inferring what’s needed from their source code. The company on Tuesday announced that it has rebranded as StackGen and closed what is now a $12.3 million seed round (after first

Inversion Space accelerates orbital reentry vehicle tech with $71M Space Force contract

Goods are shipped around the world via roads, rail, and air. Why not space, too? That's the question posed by Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based startup that's developing a reentry capsule that it says will be capable of autonomously landing anywhere on Earth to a football field-sized de

Hardware companies dominate a list of promising climate tech startups

What will it take for a startup to make a dent in climate change? The most promising candidates tend to be hardware startups that have spent years developing and proving their technologies, according to a new report. Oh, and it helps to specialize in energy or raw materials. The r

Smartcat secures $43M for its AI-powered translation platform

Can AI ever fully replace translators? Not likely. AI translations tend to lack the lexical richness of their human-translated counterparts, mainly because AI models make choices based on probability — not lived experience. Certainly, AI can produce “accurate” translations, but the tr

Form3, a quiet giant in UK fintech, raises $60M at a $570M valuation

The global economy remains in a sticky spot, in the words of the International Monetary Fund. Understandably, banks and other financial players are therefore looking to do what they can to bring down operating costs while spurring more financial activity. Today, Form3, one of the startups building

Threads is not working on its own DM system yet, but it might make it easier to send Instagram messages

The Threads team is not yet working on a separate inbox or a direct messaging system for the social network, despite user demands, and will continue to use the Instagram inbox. However, the company might make it easier to send messages to Instagram right from the Threads app. App researcher Adwa

Google loses appeal against EU's $2.7B Shopping antitrust case, as bloc also wins $15B Apple state aid appeal

Google has once again lost in its bid to overturn a 2017 antitrust decision by the European Commission. The bloc found its shopping comparison service had broken competition rules — hitting Alphabet, Google’s parent, with an at-the-time record-breaking €2.42 billion penalty (around $2

Formo gets investors’ mouths watering with Koji protein-based, animal-free cheese

A love of food — and, well, cheese — has landed German fermentation startup Formo‘s co-founder Roman Plewka and its team a hefty $61 million Series B round to keep scaling production of their climate-friendly, animal-free cheese. The Berlin-based startup’s first products us

Swiggy weighs increasing its IPO size by $150M, aiming to raise up to $1.4B

Indian food delivery startup Swiggy is considering increasing the fresh issue component of its initial public offering by $150 million, aiming to raise a total of up to $1.4 billion in what is shaping up to be one of the largest public listings in India this year. The Bengaluru-headquartered start

Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says

The newspaper business has been in the middle of a long and slow decline thanks to the rise of the internet. Now some new research out of the U.K. lays bare how TV news is facing a similar fate.  Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news a