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Waymo Turns Old Robotaxi Batteries Into Solar Energy Storage
Waymo is giving old robotaxi batteries a second life on the electric grid. The self-driving car company is partnering with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose thousands of retired EV batteries into large-scale energy storage systems for solar power. Waymo’s autonomous ride-hail vehicles wear through batteries faster than personal electric vehicles because they spend far more time on the road...
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Forage Tackles Complex SNAP Payments to Unlock $1.5 Trillion US Grocery...
Forage deployed specialized payment infrastructure across 100,000 US stores to eliminate the compliance rules, balance check friction, and disjointed checkout flows that make processing SNAP and WIC benefits complicated for grocers. Traditional retail software was not built to handle Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) data for digital commerce, blocking merchants from smoothly capturing spend from the 40 million Americans relying on nutritional assistance...
Strategy
Beacon Raises $225 Million Series C to Fund Weekly Acquisitions
Beacon has secured a $225 million Series C round to accelerate its strategy of buying essential physical-economy businesses and overhauling them with artificial intelligence. Led by General Catalyst and HarbourVest, the round brings the platform's total capital raised over the past year to more than half a billion dollars. Beacon utilizes a tech-driven rollup model, acquiring mission-critical companies at a pace of roughly one per week and integrating them into a shared, AI-native operating system...
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Ramp Hits $44 Billion Valuation With $750 Million Primary Financing Round
Corporate spend platform Ramp raised a $750 million Series F primary financing round, driving its valuation to $44 billion. The round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, alongside new backers including Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. This massive cash injection underlines a critical operational shift for scaling companies navigating the infrastructure costs of the artificial intelligence boom...
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Adaptive Innovations Raises $50 Million to Scale AI-Native Home Healthcare
Adaptive Innovations has emerged from stealth with a $50 million Series A funding round to scale its AI-native clinical operations outside of Texas. The investment, led by California venture capital firm Felicis, brings the startup's total funding to $60 million following a previously undisclosed $10 million seed round in 2025. Instead of operating as a traditional software vendor, the company operates directly as the healthcare provider, using its proprietary artificial intelligence platform to automate intake, scheduling, documentation, and billing for its own clinical workforce...


































