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Atomic Industries closes $17M seed to exascale America’s industrial base

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In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously posed the distinction between companies that deal in “atoms” versus those that deal in “bits.” ” In its crudest terms, the former category includes businesses focused on things like hardware and manufacturing; the latter, software and financial services.

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Oxbotica raises $47M to deploy its autonomous vehicle software in industrial applications

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The startup has been around since about 2014, originally as a spinout from Oxford University co-founded by academics Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner — Newman remains at the startup as its CTO, while Posner remains an AI professor at Oxford. . Our point is to be agnostic, to make sure it works on any hardware platform.”

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These 11 Charts Show The State Of Startup Investing At The Beginning Of 2025

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Asia sags to 2014 lows Asia posted its weakest quarter for venture investment since 2014, with only $13 billion going to VC-backed startups in the region, Crunchbase data shows. That number represents a dramatic 40% drop from Q1 last year and a 25% decline from Q4 2024. Further U.S.

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Industrial drone maker Percepto raises $45M and integrates with Boston Dynamics’ Spot

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Percepto , which makes drones — both the hardware and software — to monitor and analyze industrial sites and other physical work areas largely unattended by people, has raised $45 million in a Series B round of funding. Venture Partners, Spider Capital and Arkin Holdings also participated. (It

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Crypto wallet company Ledger raises another $108 million

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The company designs and manufactures so-called hardware wallets to secure crypto assets. Ledger’s main products are hardware crypto wallets that offer a high level of security. Hardware wallets are secure by design because the private key of the crypto wallet never leaves the device — it is stored in a certified secure chip.

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3 views on CES 2022

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For fifty-four years, big and small hardware manufacturers that hoped to reach their target audiences rolled out new products at the Consumer Electronics Show. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies. Somewhere around 2014 or so, CES turned into a car show. Fill that vacuum.”

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Smart lock maker Latch teams with real estate firm to go public via SPAC

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Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. Though, like many companies primarily known for hardware solutions, Latch says it’s more, offering a connected security software platform for owners of apartment buildings. from 2019 to 2020.