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Category Clean tech and energy
Why Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer Says It’s A Great Time To Build A Hard Tech Company: ‘Infrastructure Is The Moat’
In this Crunchbase News Q&A, Gigascale Capital founder Mike Schroepfer discusses the coming power crunch, why infrastructure has become a strategic...
Jun 24, 2026
22 min read
by Crunchbase
Silicon Is Back: Playground Global’s Decade-Long Bet On Hardware, Energy And Deep Tech Looks Prescient
In the decade-plus since Playground Global's founding, it has built its investment thesis around the idea that breakthroughs in science and enginee...
Jun 16, 2026
19 min read
by Crunchbase
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Megarounds Proliferate, Led By Enterprise Software, AI, And Space Tech
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? C...
Jun 5, 2026
3 min read
by Crunchbase
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: On-Demand Custom Manufacturing, Underwater Geothermal Energy, And Adventure Group Travel
A grab bag of funded startups caught our attention this past month, from a previously bootstrapped custom metal manufacturer that got its first out...
Jun 5, 2026
7 min read
by Crunchbase
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anthropic Dominates In An Otherwise Slower Week For Megarounds
Venture funding has always been a world of haves and have nots. And these days, the haves are having more than ever. Case in point this week was ge...
May 29, 2026
3 min read
by Crunchbase