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Launch startup Stoke Space rolls out software tool for complex hardware development

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Stoke Space , a company that’s developing a fully reusable rocket, has unveiled a new tool to let hardware companies track the design, testing and integration of parts. The new tool, Fusion , is targeting an unsexy but essential aspect of the hardware workflow. Fusion is particularly relevant to startups.

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10 tips for de-risking hardware products

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Manufacturing real-life, tangible objects that you can touch is often a lot riskier than developing software. million fundraise , I asked company founder Narek Vardanyan what he thinks are the biggest pitfalls in hardware development. Last week, when I wrote about Prelaunch.com’s $1.5

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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

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Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Next year, he hopes to launch a personal fund to support people of color and will focus on tech and hardware innovation.

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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

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Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. Prelaunch.com is an Armenian startup that has developed tools to help startup founders figure out what’s worth building — and just raised $1.5 million to further develop its product and services.

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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

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Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. Hardware issues are repetitive, difficult, and time-consuming to fix. ” Technical support. .”

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AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

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Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. The edge AI hardware market is projected to grow from 920 million units in 2021 to 2.08 billion by 2025.

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China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

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The United States has been trying to counteract the popularization of technological solutions from China for years, often taking steps that are contrary to the development of an open market. China is pushing the boundaries of its own AI development every few weeks, and its results are already a serious threat to Western technology.