The Navy finished phase-one testing of medium unmanned surface vessels and turned three of seven bidders into production: 30 hulls at ~$40M each. Two winners were not shipbuilders when the programme was designed.
Bulwark Dynamics closed a $6.8M seed and signed a commercial shipbuilder to produce its autonomous landing craft. The deal inverts the usual hardtech pitch: the scarce asset is steel capacity, not software.
NASA's JPL-led pathfinder will fly the first quantum gravity sensor in space, with Infleqtion building the cold-atom core. It points at groundwater, ice and mineral mapping, with a 2030 launch target.
PG&E launched SHARE on September 3, 2026 — a virtual power plant fully funded by Google that enrolls almost 21,000 home devices in the Bay Area. It is Google's third demand-side flexibility deal this year, and a test of whether flexible capacity can arrive faster than a new transmission line.
Aptadir Therapeutics raised €40M led by 4BIO Capital to develop RNA inhibitors that reverse methylation at a single gene. Its lead candidate targets Fragile X syndrome. No molecule has reached a patient yet.
Shenzhen's D-Robotics closed a $400 million Series C, the largest China robotics round in four years. It sells the computing layer beneath the machines — chips, an operating system and a developer toolchain — and its investors are betting infrastructure captures the durable margin.
SiMa.ai raised $150M at a $1.45B valuation to run AI on devices rather than the cloud. Fidelity and Amplify co-led a round that brings total funding to $500M, and sets a 2028 deadline for the edge-inference thesis.
The grid connection queue runs five to seven years. TAR raised $120M at a $1B valuation to sell the alternative: modular solar, wind and battery blocks, built in a factory and trucked to the site. The bet is that speed now matters more than the fuel.