American Hardtech

@ColeshillBlue @FabrizioRomano Well said.

@AmHardtech @FabrizioRomano Yep..the whole pub was like wtf you doing? He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory 🤦‍♂️

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Thomas Tuchel: “It’s easy to say my decisions were wrong after the defeat”.

@bznotes His assist was a beauty

England scored over Argentina. ⚽️ This is when yellow cards, red cards, the army of VARs gets deployed! Let’s see how Messi gets made King again this time? Or will this time be different?

New: @DIU_x charts fresh course with portfolio consolidation and new vision.

@JoshuaSteinman Yes. (And can’t come soon enough)

Brother… you’re holding it.

Daily Hardtech Brief for July 15th, 2026 AMERICAN HARDTECH - Walden Robotics, a humanoid startup spun out of a Toyota research lab, emerged from stealth with roughly $300M at a $1.1B valuation, backed by Deviation Capital, Toyota, Nvidia, and Boeing, and is already running a robot on eight-hour shifts at a Toyota plant. (Bloomberg) - San Jose's TYLsemi, founded by ex-Alphawave executives, launched with $43M to build a full-stack "chiplet" platform for custom AI silicon, with TSMC lined up to make its samples. (SiliconANGLE) - Loft Orbital bought a block of Apex satellite buses to fly larger, more power-hungry customer payloads, deepening the tie between two of the buzzier names in productized satellite hardware. (Payload) - At a Senate confirmation hearing, the Pentagon's space-acquisition nominee said legacy programs are ill-suited to the Space Force's acquisition overhaul, while senators pressed on SpaceX's near-monopoly in launch and the cost of Golden Dome. (Payload) - A $36M seed co-led by UP Partners and Khosla Ventures for Skapion's "Iron Dome for drone swarms," a mobile counter-swarm system built to defeat hundreds of simultaneous drones at low cost per intercept. Founding team are ex-Rafael Iron Dome and David's Sling leaders; HQ in Washington, DC with R&D in Ramat Gan. Israeli-American, so it fits our American section with the roots noted. (CTech) ALLIED HARDTECH - United Kingdom: Oratomic raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH, Spark, and Khosla to build a neutral-atom quantum computer it claims can be practical at 20,000 qubits, far fewer than most expect. (TechBuzz) - Canada: General Fusion debuted on the Nasdaq as the first publicly traded pure-play fusion company, entering the market with about $150M to advance its magnetized-target fusion tech. (TechCrunch) - A €2.4M pre-seed (led by Faber) for deep-tech "FOMS" materials venture Porelio that pull gold, platinum, and palladium out of industrial wastewater and strip PFAS from drinking water. Allied, materials/circular-economy. (Startbase) Shoutouts to @LoftOrbital @TYLsemi @TeamOratomic I post stuff every weekday and a roundup on Saturdays. Follow for more!

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@stoolpresidente Also ridiculous that all fouls inside the box are a PK; one dive 17 yards out can change the whole game.

They gotta do something about these penalties. You play 90 minutes of soccer and then ridiculous penalties decide the game

@cwamidon What happened?

yikes

@reynoir_will Thanks a ton, bud!

@AmHardtech This is an awesome roundup! Keep it up!

Today's Hardtech Brief for July 14th AMERICAN HARDTECH - The FCC approved Reflect Orbital's first satellite, an 18-meter sun-reflecting orbital mirror set to launch later this year, over objections from astronomers who warn a full constellation could light up the night sky. (Via Satellite) - Atlanta's Reditus Space finished building its reusable ENOS reentry vehicle, launching later this year on a SpaceX rideshare, with the Missile Defense Agency eyeing it as a Mach 25-plus hypersonic target under the SHIELD program. (SpaceNews) - Bay Area indoor-farming startup Hippo Harvest closed a $30M Series C led by Cox Farms to scale its robotic, machine-learning-run greenhouses and a 30-acre California expansion. (hortidaily) - The Pentagon suspended its CMMC Phase II cybersecurity mandates, calling them too burdensome on the defense industrial base, a near-term reprieve for contractors and startups selling into DoD. (Breaking Defense) - Lunar Outpost's European arm was tapped for ESA's Moonraker mission, a LiDAR survey to map the lunar south pole in 3D ahead of a planned 2030 launch. (SpaceWatcH) ALLIED HARDTECH - Ukraine: US software-maker Auterion and Ukraine's Skyfall began delivering 50,000 Shrike FPV strike drones with autonomous terminal-guidance kits that hold a lock through jamming, a roughly €90M effort funded by Germany. (defence-industry) - Australia: Spinifex Space launched to offer end-to-end suborbital launch campaigns, private range access, and test-and-evaluation infrastructure across Australian ranges. (Payload) Shoutouts to @reflectorbital, @ReditusSpace, @HippoAg, @DoWCIODavies, @DoW_CIO, @LunarOutpostInc I need more followers, so give me a follow; I post a hardtech brief every weekday and a weekly roundup on Saturdays.

@FreddyLA7 Freddy’s back! 🇺🇸 🤝 🇩🇪

On our way into the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina!!!

@barstoolsports Guess he’s a bit more like Jamie Tart (do do do do do doooo 🎶)

Dani Rojas from 'Ted Lasso' is officially a pro soccer player in the US, gets a yellow card right after subbing on during his first game

"They're makin' laws where you can't drink when you want to... pretty soon we're gonna be a communist country."

The Daily Hardtech Brief for July 13th, 2026 AMERICAN HARDTECH - In a first for the US military, three Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessels struck a submarine and ship-maintenance facility at Iran's Bandar Abbas naval base on Sunday, the debut of American sea drones as offensive weapons. (Naval News) - The FAA cleared SpaceX to fly Starship again after May's booster failure, and the company is targeting July 16 for Flight 13, which will carry 20 Starlink V3 satellites. (TechCrunch) - The Army picked Caterpillar, Forterra, IDV USA, and Overland AI to prototype its Engineer Autonomous Breaching Capability, robots meant to clear obstacles and minefields under fire without soldiers in the breach. (Defense Daily) - DARPA is standing up a heavy-lift cargo drone competition, pushing industry toward uncrewed aircraft that can haul large payloads for contested logistics. (DefenseScoop) - The Defense Innovation Unit and the Navy opened the $5M Specular MIST challenge for containerized payloads on crewed and uncrewed surface ships, with submissions due July 22 and an at-sea demo in September. (Breaking Defense) - The Pentagon selected Lockheed Martin and nLIGHT for the Joint Laser Weapon System, worth $86M now and up to $847M, to field high-energy lasers against drones and cruise missiles. (AeroTime) ALLIED HARDTECH - Germany: Germany's procurement agency tapped a Rheinmetall and MBDA team to build a high-energy laser weapon for the German Navy, targeting service in 2029 after a shipborne demonstrator fired more than 1,000 shots at sea. (defence-industry) - United Kingdom: Twelve European allies, led by the UK, committed about $50B over ten years to a Deep Precision Strike initiative for long-range missiles, signed at the NATO summit in Ankara. (UK Gov't) Shoutouts to @Saronic, @RheinmetallAG, @DARPA, @LockheedMartin, @DIU_x, @SpaceX, @CaterpillarInc That's the brief, follow for more!

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Weekly Hardtech Roundup for July 5–10, 2026 This week American and allied hardtech kept raising, kept consolidating, and kept pulling government behind it. The biggest moves: AMERICAN HARDTECH Blue Origin (pictured) moved to take outside capital for the first time, reportedly raising $10B at a $130B valuation, with $2B from Bezos and $4B from Coatue. (The New York Times) AI-chip startup Positron entered talks to raise about $750M at up to a $5B valuation, betting that inference, not training, is where Nvidia is most beatable. (Bloomberg) Venus Aerospace closed a $91M Series B led by Mercury Fund to scale its rotating detonation rocket engine for defense and space. (SpaceNews) MIT spinout Quaise Energy raised a $134M first close of its Series B to drill superhot geothermal wells with millimeter-wave tech, targeting a first-of-its-kind plant by 2030. (Canary Media) The Space Force added Relativity Space and Impulse Space to its NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 launch pool, bringing the field of national-security launch providers to seven. (Defense One) Interior Dept's ocean-energy bureau opened a request for information on building offshore launch and reentry sites on the Outer Continental Shelf, a response to pad congestion and a December executive order. (Federal Register) ALLIED HARDTECH Canada: Ottawa selected Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems to build up to 12 Type 212CD submarines, its largest-ever military procurement. (Breaking Defense) NATO: Eight allies unveiled HALO, a plan to network their sovereign military-satellite fleets into one interoperable constellation, announced at the alliance's forum in Ankara. (NATO) Germany: Proxima Fusion raised €411M ($468M), the largest fusion round in European history, to build a net-energy stellarator demonstrator near Munich. (EU-Startups) France: Thales agreed to buy underwater-drone maker Exail for about $4.5B, beating Safran, to expand in seabed warfare. (Defense News) Can I haz a follow?

@ArthurMacwaters Wait, so this is real?

It’s always the ones you least expect, doing the fraud 😩

@Tyler_Plummer 🇺🇸

This isn’t photo shopped