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Suno , building a revolutionary creative platform powered by the world's best music model, led by Mikey Shulman, Martin Camacho, and Georg Kucsko, has secured  $250M Series C at a $2.45B post-money valuation, led by Menlo Ventures , with participation from NVentures  (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Hallwood Media , Lightspeed , and Matrix.  Music has always been humanity’s most powerful form of expression, yet creating it has often been inaccessible. Suno is changing that: ov

Zap Energy , building a seriously cheap, compact, scalable fusion energy technology, led by Benj Conway, Brian A. Nelson, and Uri Shumlak, has achieved  plasmas with electron pressures as high as 830 megapascals (MPa), or 1.6 gigapascals (GPa) total, comparable to the pressures found deep below Earth’s crust. The results are the highest-pressure performance to date in a  sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch  and an important marker on the path to scientific energy gain, or Q>1. Fu

Jiga , an AI-native platform transforming the entire sourcing workflow, led by Adar Hay, Assaf Geuz, and Yonatan Wolowelsky, has closed a $12M Series A led by Aleph , with participation from Symbol  and Y Combinator . The team has spent years solving sourcing challenges, streamlining RFQ workflows, standardizing drawings, and enabling direct manufacturer communication, to ensure custom parts procurement no longer slows innovation in rockets, robots, satellites, and other cutt