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And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems
For three days this week in San Francisco, 20 eager startups participated in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The top 20 were chosen to represent the best of the Startup Battlefield 200, and they competed for a chance to take…
The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Spending Contracts For Latest AI-Driven Startup Batch
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week's Top 10…
This startup wants to make clean energy the default for data centers
The U.S. is on track to add a record 86 gigawatts of new wind, solar, and battery storage capacity this year—roughly the size of the U.K.'s entire grid. And there's far more clean energy in the pipeline, with low-cost proposed projects that…
Asia's Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
Asia's startup funding held up at the second-highest level in years in the third quarter, even as investment fell slightly from Q2 totals. Overall, investors put $38.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage financings for countries in the…
AI Startup Wants Every Company to Assign You Your Own Personal Stalker
If there is one thing this moment of techno-negativity—from the rejection of Flock Security cameras to the distrust of AI companies gobbling up data—tells us, it's that people hate feeling watched. You could put the brightest minds of…
Guest column: Next governor can make Oregon a startup state
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As Gov. Tina Kotek and Christine Drazan enter the homestretch of the governor's race, Oregon's small businesses and entrepreneurs would like a word. After visiting nearly every county myself, and spending…
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[INTERVIEW] Korean startup targets 'legal AI music' via copyright tracking
More than half of the new tracks uploaded to French streaming service Deezer each day are now made by artificial intelligence (AI). The company said such uploads peaked in June at about 90,000 a day, up from roughly 10,000 in January 2025. The…
India's Billionaire Family Offices Are Betting Big On Homegrown AI Startups
Signage of Uniphore at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed India's AI startups gain $1B+ valuations amid rising domestic and global interest Billionaire family offices lead investments to boost…
A startup wants to sell sunlight at night. Its latest test lit up Mount Whitney.
On Saturday night, residents of Lone Pine, a small Eastern Sierra town near Mount Whitney, were baffled by a pair of blinding lights illuminating the desert south of town. In what should have been a pitch-black sky, the beams seemed to come out of…
Rocket startup LEAP targets 2028 orbital launch
WASHINGTON — A Colorado rocket startup is aiming to enter the market for dedicated small-satellite launches in 2028 as growing demand for access to orbit creates new opportunities for smaller rockets. You'll also receive our weekly Editor's…
The $22B startup co-founder working to make chatbots talk back
When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni moved to trademark her voice last week, she highlighted growing fears about AI deepfakes sounding ever more convincingly like the people they impersonate, from politicians to CEOs. But she also shone a…
AMTZ hosts MedTech RoboSprint 2026, linking 32 startups to experts
Updated - October 16, 2026 07:37 pm IST - VISAKHAPATNAM Subscribe to The Hindu @ Just ₹1* Subscribe to The Hindu @ Just $4.99 *Offer only for new subscribers The Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ) has cemented its status as a premier centre…
China startup demoes prototype EUV light source - 15W of output power and 90% domestic components, still years away from viability
Being unable to procure EUV litho tools from ASML, China must develop such systems locally, so from time to time we learn about an EUV-related 'breakthrough' in China that will turn into an actual EUV scanner over the following several years. This…
Karthikeya Meesala and the Growth Role That Now Comes First at AI Startups
Ten years ago that allocation would have looked premature. The conventional order at a software startup was to build first and sell later. Founders spent a year or more on the product, hired engineers, handled the first customers themselves, and…
German Power Supplier Exits Raise Specter of 2022 Energy Crisis
Two German power retailers are exiting Germany's household market, forcing about 300,000 customers to find new suppliers as surging wholesale electricity costs put pressure on the industry. Green-energy startup Grüüün said last week…
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