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Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions in a new funding round at a post-money valuation of up to $60B; one source puts the round size at $5B (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/cursor-weighs-fresh-fundraise-as

Cursor Weighs Fresh Fundraise as Debate Rages on Coding Firm's Prospects
Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion

SPARK Founders
A monthly drop of interviews with the most inspiring female founders on the planet...
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In the mid-20th century,
Mary Cardwell Dawson
broke barriers for Black musicians and performers
as a vocal proponent of musical education
and the founder of the National Negro Opera Company(NNOC),
one of the first professional organizations of its kind in the United States.
Dawson’s multi-decade career eventually led her to the White House,
where first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was so impressed by her efforts that she wrote a personal check in support o…

Gegen Ordner-Chaos: Tool rüstet Vorschau im macOS-Finder nach
Wer große Mengen an Dateiordnern auf seinem Mac hat, verliert schnell den Überblick. Ein kleines Finder-Werkzeug hilft hier.
https://www.

Digitale Souveränität: ZB MED startet Fundraising für PubMed-Alternative
Trotz Versprechen zum Sichern unabhängiger Forschungsdaten bleibt die Finanzierung fürs europäische Projekt OLSPub aus. Eine Bibliothek geht in die Offensive.

Candle Media sells a majority stake in ATTN: back to ATTN:'s founders and others; the digital media company was valued at $150M when Candle bought it in 2022 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/candle-media-sells-attn

Exclusive: Candle Media sells ATTN: back to its co-founders
ATTN:'s co-founders Matthew Segal and Jarrett Moreno said they plan to incubate new digital brands.

Inertia, cofounded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/twil

Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV | TechCrunch
Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, a key part of its power plant design.

xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba is leaving xAI, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts: more than half a dozen researchers left in recent weeks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3d4a9683-b70a-4953-b21b-b3ea07d693a3

xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/another-cofound…

Another Cofounder of Elon Musk’s xAI Resigns
Tony Wu, one of xAI’s cofounders, said he has resigned from Elon Musk’s AI company. Wu’s exit follows the departure last year of another xAI cofounder, Igor Babuschkin. “I will deeply miss the people,  the warrooms, and all those battles we have fought together,” Wu said in a post on X. “It’s time for my next chapter.” Wu, a computer scientist who got his doctorate from the University of

AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI agents, raised ~$190M led by Accel; Google bought Mandiant for $5.4B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/kevin-mandia-raised-190-mi…

Kevin Mandia sold his cybersecurity company to Google in 2022. He has a fresh $190 million for a new venture
Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia is staying in cybersecurity after selling his prior company to Google, but now he's focused on AI.