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Toshiba Lost the Living Room. Can It Win the Infrastructure Underneath Everything?
The 150-year-old Japanese icon survived scandal, a nuclear wipeout and a rejected breakup. Now private, leaner and newly profitable, it is betting that the best place to rebuild a household name is far outside the household.
Ibeos Put CubeSat Economics Into Serious Space Hardware - Then Trident Bought the Factory
The Virginia spacecraft supplier spent 13 years turning radiation-tolerant power, batteries and computers into configurable products. Its March 2026 sale to Trident shows what happens when a small engineering shop makes the least glamorous parts of a satellite easier to buy.
錫力科技 YC Synergy
錫力科技 (YC Synergy) is a Taiwan-based clean-energy company building hydrogen fuel cell power systems and end-to-end hydrogen infrastructure - electrolysis-based green hydrogen production, storage, and refueling. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Xindian, New Taipei City, the firm designs and integrates fuel cell systems for stationary power, maritime vessels, and road transport, working with partners such as Germany's EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies and Stan Shih's zero-carbon ship venture Porrima. It was named Asia-Pacific Fuel Cell System Company of the Year by Energy Tech Review in 2024.
Chariot Defense
Chariot Defense is a South San Francisco defense-technology company building hybrid-electric power systems for the battlefield. Its Amphora platform delivers quiet, high-density, software-controlled power to distributed military hardware - drones, sensors, radios, electronic-warfare and directed-energy systems - so that energy never becomes the limiting factor in a fight. Founded in 2024 by former Anduril and Archer engineer Adam Warmoth, the company raised a $34M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in February 2026, bringing total funding to roughly $41-42M, and has fielded its systems with the U.S. Army and the Defense Innovation Unit.