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businessinsider.com - Sydney Bradley - Read the pitch decks of 17 startups looking to disrupt advertising and marketing with AI
Read the pitch decks of 17 startups looking to disrupt advertising and marketing with AI
Business Insider

AI is reshaping the media and marketing industries at warp speed. Adtech and martech startups are raising millions of dollars from venture capital firms on the back of the AI wave. Many of these companies are developing under-the-hood tech, such as…

techcrunch.com - Sean O'Kane - Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors
Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors
TechCrunch

Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors was scrambling to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. It had courted Ford as a potential investor, but Jia Yueting, the founder of rival EV startup Faraday Future, had quietly amassed around a 30% stake and…

entrepreneur.com - Anshuman Yadav - Waiting to Hire This Position Can Save Startups Time and Money
Waiting to Hire This Position Can Save Startups Time and Money
Entrepreneur

Hiring a fractional CFO too early often results in misaligned expectations and a high cost with minimal impact on the startup's trajectory. Seed-stage startups usually face issues with financial clarity rather than requiring high-level judgment…

wsj.com - Yusuf Khan - Exclusive | Carbon Removal Startup Terradot Acquires Eion as Market Consolidates
Exclusive | Carbon Removal Startup Terradot Acquires Eion as Market Consolidates
Wall Street Journal

Google-backed carbon-removal startup Terradot is acquiring Eion, a similar but smaller venture, in a sign the market for companies that focus on technical solutions to decarbonization is consolidating. Both companies are developers of what is known…

wsj.com - Dylan Tokar - Exclusive | Hobbit-Inspired Startup Becomes First New Bank Greenlighted by Trump 2.0
Exclusive | Hobbit-Inspired Startup Becomes First New Bank Greenlighted by Trump 2.0
Wall Street Journal

The Trump administration has greenlighted its first new bank, and it is a startup that takes its name from a mountain where dwarves stored their treasure in J.R.R. Tolkien's “The Hobbit.” Erebor Bank, which will cater to startups and…

bloomberg.com - Anuchit Nguyen - GIC-Backed Thai Startup Weighs IPO in Hong Kong or New York
GIC-Backed Thai Startup Weighs IPO in Hong Kong or New York
Bloomberg

Line Man Wongnai, a Thai technology startup backed by Singapore's GIC Pte, is considering an initial public offering abroad to tap stronger investor demand and secure a higher valuation, a move that would signal a lack of confidence in the local…

pcmag.com - Rob Pegoraro - Space Startups to NASA: Hurry Up and Pick Someone to Build ISS Replacement
Space Startups to NASA: Hurry Up and Pick Someone to Build ISS Replacement
PCMag

DOHA, Qatar–Two American space startups came to a stage almost 7,000 miles from Washington with an unusual message for policymakers there: Please pick a company soon to build a replacement for the International Space Station, even if it's…

thehindu.com - Centre outlines definition for 'deep tech' startup
Centre outlines definition for 'deep tech' startup
The Hindu

The Centre has given an official definition for what constitutes a ‘deep tech' startup in India. A buzzword until now, the ‘deep tech' startup, according to a gazette notification by the Department for Promotion of Industry and…

theregister.com - Thomas Claburn - AI video startup boasts it 'ended' jobs, gets backlash
AI video startup boasts it 'ended' jobs, gets backlash
The Register

The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused…

cyprus-mail.com - Cyprus startups gain ground in Europe's tech landscape, EU-Startups says
Cyprus startups gain ground in Europe's tech landscape, EU-Startups says
Cyprus Mail

Cyprus' startup ecosystem continues to develop its own place within Europe's innovation landscape, according to EU-Startups' Olga Codina, who highlighted ten companies founded since 2021 as a reflection of the island's emerging tech maturity.

siliconangle.com - Paul Gillin - Exclusive: Startup Lyzr.ai launches app builder aimed at moving agents to production in volume
Exclusive: Startup Lyzr.ai launches app builder aimed at moving agents to production in volume
SiliconANGLE

Lyzr Inc., a startup that builds tools for deploying artificial intelligence agents in enterprises, will launch a new agentic application builder next week that it says lets nontechnical users create multi-agent systems to automate complex business…

futurism.com - Frank Landymore - An Analysis Just Found Something Extremely Unflattering About What Happens to Users of Prediction Markets
An Analysis Just Found Something Extremely Unflattering About What Happens to Users of Prediction Markets
Futurism

After an analyst found that users are losing money faster on sites like Polymarket than on traditional sports gambling platforms, the US's largest prediction market Kalshi hit back with a decidedly unusual response. As Bloomberg reports, the…

seekingalpha.com - APAC Investment News - Instacart: Fair Fundamentals, But Long-Term Concerns Keep Me At Sell (NASDAQ:CART)
Instacart: Fair Fundamentals, But Long-Term Concerns Keep Me At Sell (NASDAQ:CART)
Seeking Alpha

Maplebear Inc., aka Instacart, faces mounting long-term headwinds from in-house competition, regulatory pressures, and consumer belt-tightening despite recent CART share price declines. Local laws in Seattle and New York City are driving up costs…

wsj.com - Dow Jones Newswires Staff - U.S. Futures Fall, Bitcoin Stays Low as Riskoff Sentiment Continues
U.S. Futures Fall, Bitcoin Stays Low as Riskoff Sentiment Continues
Wall Street Journal

U.S. futures pointed to another day of losses for stocks as fears over the scale of artificial-intelligence spending, as well as disruption from AI startups, weighed on sentiment. Amazon followed Alphabet in announcing capital-spending plans well…

wsj.com - Bradley Olson - The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals
The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals
Wall Street Journal

Anthropic once appeared as an also-ran in the chaotic race for AI supremacy. This week, the sophistication of the startup's products upended the stock market. A simple set of industry-specific add-ons to its Claude product, including one that…

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