Cicada Innovations has unveiled the 23 deep tech ventures selected for the Cicada x Tech23 Class of 2026, chosen from a record 230-plus applications — more than double the applicant pool of previous years. The cohort spans energy, health, space, defence, agriculture, manufacturing and AI, with breakout names including Monadd-AI (cloud-scale AI that runs on standard desktop hardware, bypassing expensive GPU clusters), Thermal Dawn (thermal batteries for heating and...