Startups & business
Funding, launches, deals and the companies shaping tech.
Startups & businessPlucky Chinese startup claims to beat Nvidia DGX Spark, Mac Mini on Qwen — says its '256 TOPS beats 1000 TOPS in prefill', running 16-core Cortex-A55 SoC on 40w
Sipeed claims its 256 TOPS MaixStation can outperform Nvidia's DGX Spark on Qwen workloads despite lower advertised computing capacity and…
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Startups & businessOpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
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Startups & businessPeter Jackson Just Got an Ultra-Rare Extinct Moa Egg Back to New Zealand With the Help of De-Extinction Startup
The Lord of the Rings filmmaker helped acquire the rare moa egg, one of less than 40 known to exist, after a gallery in Colorado put the ancient…
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Startups & business'The GPU never reads the same text twice': Belgian startup Corbenic wants to turn your server's SSD into AI memory, but its 14x speedup owes more to reading less
Galahad promises exact, encrypted KV cache reuse for vLLM, SGLang, and Llama.cpp, but LMCache, Nvidia, and Phison got to the round table first.
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Startups & businessCal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct,…
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Startups & businessAnthropic is offering startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits to kickstart their AI journey
Anthropic is giving startups up to $7k in Claude benefits as well as so much more via partners, Anthropic expertise and networking.
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Startups & businessJio Platforms IPO likely by Oct end at enterprise valuation of $143-146 billion
Jio Platforms IPO is touted as India's largest public offer at an estimated size of $3.8 billion
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Startups & businessJio IPO likely by Oct end at enterprise valuation of above ₹12 trillion
Digital services major Jio Platforms is likely to get listed by the end of this month at an enterprise valuation of USD 143-146 billion or above Rs…
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Startups & businessIndia News | Andhra CM Naidu Seeks IIT Alumni Cooperation to Make State Global Knowledge Hub; Announces Rs 500 Cr DeepTech Venture Fund
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has sought the cooperation of Indian…
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Startups & businessIranian banks boost startup lending by 149% in five months
PremiumIranian banks boost startup lending by 149% in five months
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Startups & businessFrom Startup Nation to R&D Nation: Israel’s next technological leap
Over the past two years, Israel has faced one of the most complex and challenging periods in its history: a prolonged, intensive war on seven fronts,…
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Startups & businessStartup Wrap: Gulf investors back robotics, fintech, beauty and proptech
RIYADH: Regional investors across the region deployed capital across sectors includling industrial robotics, alternative financing, and beauty as…
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Startups & businessChina's increasing role in Pakistan's digital transformation raises sovereignty concerns
Digital Desk | New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) China’s deepening role in Pakistan’s digital economy is accelerating modernisation but creates concerns about…
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Startups & businessCyprus Business Now: Wizz Air, inflation, tourism, Limassol startup, real estate
Low-cost airline Wizz Air launched its new Larnaca-Madrid route in September as part of its wider effort to expand its Cyprus network, with network…
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Startups & businessSalesforce vs. CrowdStrike: What Revenue Growth Trends for These Software Giants Tell Investors
Salesforce commands a 7-to-1 revenue advantage, yet CrowdStrike has posted uninterrupted quarter-over-quarter growth while Salesforce stumbled…
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Startups & businessNOX Energy Raises $3.4M to Build Europe’s Energy Flexibility Network
NOX Energy has raised $3.4 million in seed funding to expand software that turns household energy equipment into flexible grid assets. The Belgian…
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Startups & businessUkrainian Startup Osavul Raises $10 Million to Expand Threat Detection
Ukrainian-founded Osavul has raised $10 million in a funding round led by 33N Ventures. The Luxembourg-headquartered company plans to expand its…
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Startups & businessNOX Raises €3 Million to Connect Home Clean Energy Devices to the Grid
Residential energy management software startup NOX Energy announced that it has raised €3 million (USD$3.4 […]
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Startups & businessBusiness News | EaseMyTrip Founder Nishant Pitti Pens Emotional Note After Court Orders Interim Injunction Against Offending Publications
Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. Nishant Pitti, Founder and Chairman of Travel major EaseMyTrip on Friday penned an emotional…
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Startups & businessNEIP: Designing a Ghana Startup Agency that builds enterprises, not programmes
The proposed transformation of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) into a statutory Ghana Startup Agency should be treated…
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Startups & businessMeet the winners of the Santander X UK Awards 2026
Santander’s flagship entrepreneurship competition, the Santander X UK Awards, gives university ventures, startups and SMEs the chance to pitch for a…
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Startups & businessTaking AI To Orbit: Startup Satlyt Raises $8M To Build Computing Cloud Across Satellites
The seed round was led by Houston-based Non Sibi Ventures, with former NASA astronaut Bernard Harris among those backing the startup.
Read More ▸A serial entrepreneur raised $17 million to build a Big Law alternative. Read the pitch deck.
Arceus combines a law firm with software. The bet is that in-house legal teams don't want another tool to manage; they want the work done faster.
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Startups & business3 Coimbatore Founders Turn Near-Fatal Accident Into Safebox, Protect Rs 6,000 Cr in Family Assets, Raise $1.11M
You will be surprised to know that nearly Rs 1 lakh crore is unclaimed because deceased families may not know where those assets are held. The matter…
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Startups & businessElevenLabs' valuation doubles to $22 billion on surging AI voice-agent demand
ElevenLabs said on Wednesday it had completed a $300 million employee tender offer valuing the AI voice generation startup at $22 billion, twice the…
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Startups & businessPearson’s Workera deal targets a big workplace problem: No time to AI upskill
Pearson has agreed to acquire Workera to help businesses assess employees’ AI skills and target training where it’s needed most.
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Startups & businessMITS Capital Leads New Round for Ukrainian M-Fly to Scale Production
M-Fly, a Ukrainian maker of laser guidance systems and gyro-stabilized gimbals for drones, has secured new funding from MITS Capital, Freedom Fund,…
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Startups & businessPay-i rebrands as Ascerta and raises $18M to help enterprises track AI business value
The fresh capital brings total funding to $22.9 million for the Bellevue startup, which launched in May 2025 with a $4.9 million seed round. Read More
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Startups & businessOpenAI seeks $30 billion-plus as valuation target rises to $1.4 trillion
The fundraising would serve as a bridge ahead of a potential Wall Street debut as OpenAI continues reporting strong revenue growth
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Startups & businessInstinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related
Instinct founder said the platform is growing 10% day by day, with transaction volume increasing at a similar rate.
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Startups & businessEx-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot
Atomic's agentic supply chain software is now being used by companies like DoorDash and HelloFresh.
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Startups & businessFilling the early-stage business funding gap
Kiwibank StartUp+ aims to make the sourcing of funding for early-stage Kiwi businesses much more accessible and it’s supported by a team that…
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Startups & businessPeak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
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Startups & businessMaritime intelligenc startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”
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Startups & businessMeet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers
Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.
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Startups & businessSaudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and auto…
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Startups & businessAs electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space
Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry bags, work equipment,…
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Startups & businessNvidia wants to buy Hugging Face in $13 billion blockbuster AI deal
Reports are circulating that Nvidia could be set to acquire Hugging Face in a $12.9 billion takeover.
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Startups & businessAndy Dunn’s startup Pie becomes less of an events app and more of a social network
The social app founded by Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn is expanding beyond events with new digital homes for groups to connect, organize, and make…
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Startups & businessTaiwan taps US startup Vatn for modular S12 undersea drones – Washington’s ally turns to cheaper underwater systems
Vatn Systems and Taiwan's NCSIST sign memorandum to jointly develop autonomous undersea drones, though funding timeline details remain undisclosed.
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Startups & businessThe 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut
We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, our annual handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the…
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Startups & businessRepeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.
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Startups & businessInforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks
London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.
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Startups & businessCyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
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Startups & businessA Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life
Beeeep. Beeeep. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
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Startups & businessSilicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI
The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.
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Startups & businessCoralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents
The Series F round values Coralogix at $1.6 billion and comes less than a year after its previous raise.
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Startups & businessRocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.
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Startups & businessThis AI weather startup is out-forecasting government agencies
WindBorne benefits from its unique combination of model-building and data collection. The company now has about 400 balloons in flight gathering…
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Startups & businessA new Fire TV pop-up takes over your entire screen at startup, and it could be the beginning of the end — here’s why users think Amazon could open it up to third-party advertisers
A new pop-up has appeared on Fire TV devices, and users are worried that more third-party advertisers are about to block your view.
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Startups & businessSesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like…
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Startups & businessWith a new $100M raise, Princeton’s Thea Energy is now a top-funded fusion startup
Thea Energy's pixel-inspired magnets could give its power plant plans a boost. The fusion startup hopes to get a commercial reactor working by 2034.
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Startups & businessFormer Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn…
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Startups & businessReid Hoffman Thinks Doctors Should Ask AI for a Second Opinion
The LinkedIn cofounder now has an AI drug discovery startup—and thinks not asking chatbots for medical advice is “bordering on committing…
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Startups & business'The world’s largest untapped frontier': NASA-led startup is replacing $100k-a-day ships with ‘AI-infused’ autonomous robots
Bubble Robotics proposes autonomous ocean robots to replace costly offshore vessels, aiming to reduce risks, cut costs, and enable continuous…
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Startups & businessBret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment
Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup founded by technologist Bret Taylor, announced today that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup…
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Startups & businessFusion doesn’t have a normal startup timeline, and investors are fine with that
Fusion energy has been “20 years away” for decades, but has the science finally caught up? Private investment in fusion companies surged from $10…
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Startups & businessCalifornia Suspends Enforcement of Law Requiring VCs to Report Diversity Data
After investors appealed to the governor, California again delayed the deadline for venture firms to disclose the demographics of startup founders…
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Startups & businessExclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups
Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive,…
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Startups & businessFrom Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day
We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.
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Startups & businessA little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber
Verne, the robotaxi company launched under Rimac Group, is starting with a service in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Startups & businessAmazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots
The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.
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Startups & businessA married founder duo’s company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups
14.ai also launched a consumer brand to understand how much AI can handle customer support tasks.
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Startups & businessGushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging
Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like…
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Startups & businessKhosla’s Keith Rabois backs Comp, which wants to bolster HR teams with AI
The HR tech startup, which currently operates in Brazil, has raised a $17.25 million Series A.
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Startups & businessFitbit founders launch Luffu, a way to integrate your family's health data
Fitbit's founders have a new startup. Two years after leaving Google, James Park and Eric Friedman announced a new platform that shifts the focus…
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Startups & businessTwo Stanford students launch $2M startup accelerator for students nationwide
"Breakthrough’s purpose is to fill in the funding and opportunity gap that exists in many of these ecosystems because students have historically…
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Startups & businessApple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up
Q.ai is an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech…
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Startups & businessRedwood attracts Google for its $425M Series E as AI power needs rise
Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to power AI data centers…
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Startups & businessChinese storage startup uses ancient, controversial technique to deliver 'extraordinarily fast and resilient' SSD: this weirdly-named Roealsen6 unlocks hardware compression to deliver incredible PCIe SSD speeds
Chinese PCIe Gen5 SSD uses hardware compression to reach record benchmark speeds, although performance depends on how well the data compresses.
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