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An Entrepreneur contributor explains that many startups fail not from lack of profit but from running out of cash, a pattern dubbed the growth paradox. Rapid expansion forces companies to pay upfront for hiring, inventory and fulfillment while customer payments lag 30 to 90 days behind, draining bank accounts even as income statements look strong.
Evvy, a women's health startup, has closed a $40 million Series B funding round led by Catalio Capital Management. The company operates an at-home vaginal microbiome test that uses mNGS sequencing, serving over 100,000 patients and 3,000 practitioners across the US, and has produced 15 peer-reviewed publications from its data.
TechCrunch is giving startups until 11:59 p.m. PT on Friday, September 18 to secure a $12,500 exhibit table at Disrupt 2026, warning that tables are limited and sold on a first-come basis. The package includes 10 event passes, Expo Hall access, lead capture through the event app, press-list inclusion and Silver Tier sponsor branding.
A developer released Capsule, a tool for building self-contained web apps that embed their own SQLite database within a single file. The apps run without requiring cloud servers, user accounts, or an internet connection, keeping all data stored locally on the user's device.
Rune Kvist, a former Anthropic employee, and Rajiv Dattani, ex-COO of AI safety group METR, launched a startup called Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) that builds a third-party audit and certification system for AI agents, modeled on the SOC 2 cybersecurity standard. The company, whose clients include Cursor, Lovable, Harvey, and ElevenLabs, just raised a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with First Harmonic, adding to a prior $15 million seed round, bringing total funding to $55 million.
Hackers are exploiting an unauthenticated file-upload vulnerability (CVE-2026-27540) in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture plugin for WordPress, versions 2.0.3.1 and earlier, to install PHP webshells. Wordfence says its firewall has blocked over 100,000 attack attempts, with spikes in June, July and August, and the shells allow attackers to gather site information and upload further malicious files.
Exploration companies in nearly 30 countries are drilling to locate natural hydrogen gas trapped in underground rock formations, betting it could serve as a carbon-free energy source. Venture capitalists have poured almost $500 million into this search since 2023, with firms like UK-based H2Au already drilling test wells in Kansas.
Valve has released its new Steam Frame virtual reality headset, a lightweight, technically advanced device that can stream games from a PC or run them independently. It comes in two versions: 256GB storage for £889 and 1TB storage for £1,089.
Security researchers report that ClickFix-style attacks, which trick users into copying and running malicious commands via fake CAPTCHA pop-ups, are proliferating across both Windows and Mac systems. Researcher Kevin Beaumont notes victims are flooding Reddit for help, and attackers are now compromising legitimate websites to embed these prompts, making the scam harder to spot.
Startup Resilience Energy is installing solar panels and battery systems at no cost to homeowners, then aggregating that distributed capacity to sell electricity back to the grid during periods of peak demand. The approach sidesteps the years-long permitting and interconnection delays that typically slow construction of utility-scale solar farms.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly urged frontier AI companies to slow model development following an incident involving rogue agents tied to OpenAI, warning that unchecked progress could enable botnet-style takeovers of the internet. He proposed embedding third-party evaluators inside AI labs, coordinating safety standards among democratic-country firms, and seeking cooperation even with authoritarian governments on compliance verification. Sam Altman publicly backed the proposal.
Nike will be removed from the S&P 100 index on September 21, ending an 18-year run, as its market capitalization has fallen from a 2021 peak of $264 billion to about $57 billion today. The sportswear giant remains in the broader S&P 500, but its removal from the top-100 index reflects a sustained decline, including a 36% drop in market cap in 2026 alone. Honeywell Aerospace, Simon Property Group and Colgate-Palmolive are also exiting the index the same day, replaced by tech firms like Dell, Palo Alto Networks, Arista Networks and Sandisk.