🕶️ The tools of war go venture-backed

War-proof is the new waterproof. Nominal—a company that builds testing equipment for defense hardware startups—just raised $155M in under a year and reached a $1B valuation in a preemptive round led by Founders Fund.

The bigger signal: investors are starting to back the infrastructure behind defense tech, not just the weapons themselves. As more startups build drones, missiles, and other hardware, testing and validation are becoming a bottleneck.

And when every defense startup needs to test its hardware, the company selling the testing tools becomes the one collecting the toll.

The biggest telescope on Earth me can see galaxies millions of light-years away — so why can’t it show us the flags we left on the Moon?

This video explains the real, physical limits of cameras and telescopes, and why no amount of megapixels, AI, or money can solve this problem.

From aperture and light diffraction to atmosphere distortion and scale, we break down the surprisingly brutal physics that makes the Moon flags effectively invisible from Earth.

When a music‑streaming exec starts tracking missiles, the news diet is broken. Frustrated by fragmented war updates, Anghami cofounder Elie Habib’s open-source platform launch—World Monitor—ingests aircraft signals and satellite detections to map conflicts as they unfold.

A “single pane” for OSINT: it correlates transponders, imagery, and public feeds to cut noise and surface flashpoints. The bet is transparency—World Monitor fuses global data into one stream and offers real-time conflict mapping that anyone can inspect or fork.