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The 9 top biotech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Every year, TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup…
The 14 top agtech, food tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Every year, TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and from them, the top 20 compete on the big stage for the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash…
The European startup market's data doesn't match its energy - yet
The excitement for the E uropean startup market was hard to ignore at the annual Slush conference in Helsinki last month. But the actual data on the state of the region's venture market shows a different reality. The upshot: The European market has…
Nvidia Reaches Licensing Deal With Chip Startup Groq
Nvidia Corp. agreed to a licensing deal with artificial intelligence startup Groq, furthering its investments in companies connected to the AI boom and gaining the right to add a new type of technology to its products. The world's largest publicly…
Work on Christmas? Startup Founders Make Different Choices
Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion in its largest acquisition on record
Nvidia is making its largest purchase ever, acquiring nine-year-old chip startup Groq for about $20 billion. The company was founded by creators of Google's tensor processing unit, or TPU, which competes with Nvidia for artificial intelligence…
Nvidia expands AI empire with Groq licensing deal, poaching startup's top execs
Nvidia has agreed to license chip technology from startup Groq and hire away its CEO, a veteran of Alphabet's Google, Groq said in a blog post on Wednesday. Groq specializes in what is known as inference, where artificial intelligence models that…
Largest Acquisition In Nvidia History: Jensen Pays $20BN For AI Chip Startup In Bid For Google's TPU Tech
Just before the market close on Friday, Nvidia unveiled its largest ever acquisition (which however was structured as a licensing deal to avoid anti-trust concerns) when it agreed to buy Groq - pardon license all of Grok's assets and acquire its…
We're cofounders who left Amazon to build our own startup. We learned the hard way why Big Tech habits don't always translate.
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Shalini Aggarwal, a 50-year-old CEO in San Jose, California, and Andy Ratsirason, a 37-year-old CTO. The two left Amazon at different times and reconnected as cofounders of Tenfali, an AI…
Snowflake reportedly seeking to acquire observability startup Observe for $1B
Snowflake Inc. is reportedly in talks to acquire Observe Inc., a startup with a cloud-based observability platform of the same name. The Information on Tuesday cited sources as saying that the acquisition will be worth about $1 billion if it…
Nvidia to buy AI chip startup Groq for $20 billion, CNBC reports
25 Dec 2025 05:06AM (Updated: 25 Dec 2025 05:28AM) Dec 24: Nvidia has agreed to buy Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, CNBC reported on Wednesday. While the acquisition…
Nvidia to license technology from inference chip startup Groq in reported $20B deal
Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. today announced that Nvidia Corp. will license its technology on a nonexclusive basis. The deal will also see the graphics card maker hire several key Groq employees. They include founding Chief…
Lenskart's Singapore unit to acquire 29.24% stake in Korean startup iiNeer for ₹186 million
The Board of Directors of Lenskart Solutions Pte. Ltd., Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lenskart Solutions Ltd, has approved an investment of Korean Won (KRW) 3 billion) (approximately ₹186 million) for the acquisition of 29.24 per…
Kerala mental health startup Oppam raises ₹1.5 crore in seed funding
Kerala-based mental health startup Oppam has raised ₹1.5 crore in seed funding to expand access to culturally rooted mental health care. The funding round is led by Phoenix Angels, along with participation from angel investor Sandeep Balaji…
The AI scaling debate: What the industry's top minds are saying
Not everyone in AI is ready to declare the end of the age of scaling. 'I'm not convinced it's completely over,' Geoffrey Hinton, the 'Godfather of AI,' recently told Business Insider, weighing in on one of the hottest debates in AI circles this…
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