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Margot Ellery, Senior Editor — founders & venture capital
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The assignment.
Founders & Entrepreneurs
In-depth profiles built on direct interviews and the public record.
Margot Ellery, Senior Editor — founders & venture capital
Venture Capital & Investment
Where serious money is going, why, and whether the theses hold.
Margot Ellery, Senior Editor — founders & venture capital
Emerging Companies
Verified profiles of new entrants: what they make, who runs them, where they stand. Never promotional listings.
Margot Ellery, Senior Editor — founders & venture capital
From the desk
The latest stories.
Stories from this desk — newest first.
Business · News · North America · Washington
Helion Raised $500 Million to Put Fusion Power on the Grid by 2028
The Everett startup's Series G closed oversubscribed at $500 million, valuing Helion at $15.5 billion — capital pointed at a single promise: fusion electricity for Microsoft in 2028.
Business · News · North America · Ohio
Anduril's Ohio Mega-Factory Started Building Combat Drones Four Months Early
Arsenal-1, a five-million-square-foot bet on software-age weapons manufacturing, began Fury drone production in March — ahead of schedule, with almost no robots on the floor.
Business · News · North America · Texas
Joby Is Flying Into DFW Now — and Its Certification Aircraft Is Already in the Air
Texas has kicked off the first White House-backed eVTOL pilot program flights, while Joby's first FAA-conforming aircraft begins the flight testing that leads to certification.
Business · News · North America · Massachusetts
Fusion's Supply Chain Just Got Real: CFS Orders 10,000 Kilometres of Superconducting Tape
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has placed the largest single purchase order of high-temperature superconducting tape on record — 10,000 km of it, from Japan's Fujikura, for its ARC power plants.
Business · Retrospective · North America · United States
AWS at Twenty: The Accidental Cloud That Ate the Industry
On March 14, 2006, Amazon launched a storage service. Nobody called it a revolution. Twenty years later, it is the infrastructure the internet runs on.
Business · Retrospective · Middle East · Suez Canal, Egypt
Five Years After the Ever Given: Six Days That Taught Supply Chains Everything
In March 2021, a single ship blocked the Suez Canal for six days and held up $9.6 billion of trade a day. The world learned what its supply chains were really made of.
Business · Evergreen · Global · the valuation
What “Unicorn” Actually Means: A Field Guide to Startup Valuations
The most overused word in venture capital began as a statistical joke about rarity. Reading it properly means understanding what a valuation is — and isn’t.
Business · News · Middle East · Gulf states
Microsoft’s $10 Billion Gulf Framework: the AI Build-Out Goes Sovereign
Redmond’s decade-long commitment to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait is about more than capacity — it is about who controls the region’s AI infrastructure.
Business · News · Asia · South Korea
Humanoids Are Becoming the Memory Industry’s Next Growth Engine
Counterpoint Research expects DRAM demand from humanoid robots to rise more than twentyfold by 2030 — and Samsung and SK Hynix want the AI data-center playbook to repeat.
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