Cultured meat startup Higher Steaks nabs $30M and rebrands as Uncommon

U.K.-based cultivated meat startup Higher Steaks has raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding and revealed that it’s changing its name to Uncommon. Founded out of... Read more »

How curbside pickup caused Wing to rethink its approach to drone delivery

In many ways, drone delivery still feels very pie in the sky in terms of scalable e-commerce. In smaller, controlled pockets, however, the concept is going swimmingly. Among the... Read more »

How well are SaaS, e-commerce, fintech and healthtech startups doing in 2023?

Healy Jones Contributor Share on Twitter Healy Jones runs financial planning and analysis for Kruze Consulting. The startup ecosystem has gone through some substantial changes over the last few... Read more »

Carvana nirvana? Shorted stock surges 56% as company predicts record profits

On Thursday, online car-retailer Carvana announced an especially rosy outlook (i.e. forecasted record profits) for the second quarter of 2023, and investors responded by driving the company’s stock price... Read more »

GM follows Ford’s lead and adopts Tesla chargers

General Motors will integrate Tesla’s electric vehicle charging standard in its future EVs, CEO Mary Barra said Thursday during a Twitter Spaces with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The agreement... Read more »

‘The Witcher’ Season 3 drops full trailer

The full trailer for “The Witcher” season three was released on Thursday, giving viewers a taste of what to expect in the next installment of the hit Netflix series.... Read more »

Firefly buys Spaceflight Inc. to boost on-orbit services

Firefly Aerospace has acquired launch and in-space transportation service provider Spaceflight Inc., in a bid to expand its on-orbit capabilities for customers. Firefly did not disclose the terms of... Read more »

The Porsche Mission X dreams of a faster, electric sports car future

Porsche kicked off its 75th anniversary Thursday with an electrifying reveal: a battery electric hypercar concept the automaker described as a “technology beacon for the sports car of the... Read more »

AI startup Cohere, now valued at over $2.1B, raises $270M

In a sign that there’s plenty of cash to go around for generative AI startups, Cohere, which is developing an AI model ecosystem for the enterprise, today announced that... Read more »

The SEC’s situationship with Binance and Coinbase keeps getting messier

Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s been quite a long week (and it’s not over yet). Unless... Read more »
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