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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar…
This startup tried to take on Carta. It just announced it's shutting down.
Pulley, a software that startups rely on to track their funding, is shutting down after seven years. The company said in a statement published on its website on Tuesday that it will cease operations after December 8. Pulley had raised more than $50…
Take your startup from prototype to production at Disrupt 2026
AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to building impressive prototypes. Getting those prototypes into production is a different story. Every founder hopes their breakthrough becomes a product customers can rely on. Yet the path from prototype to…
Why The Next Wave Of Medtech Startups Won't Build Their Own Hardware
Aaron Timm is the CEO of Openwater. Proprietary hardware was once nearly the only pathway to building a new medical device company. Every founding team faced a familiar sequence: invent the physics, build the factory, write the code and…
Sector Snapshot: AI Takes A Growing Share Of Sales And Marketing Startup Funding
Businesses may be watching their software budgets more closely, but they are still spending on products that help them find customers and keep the ones they already have. Startups across sales, marketing and customer management have raised $7.5…
SMEs Minister Nominee Vows 'Era of National Startups'
SMEs and Startups Minister nominee Lee So-young has pledged to take bold deregulatory measures and restore confidence in the capital market to bring in an “era of national startups” where anyone can start a business. At the start of…
OpenAI has tapped a startup to make its AI work for lawyers
OpenAI has been signaling for months that it wants a bigger foothold in the legal industry. A new partnership offers a clue as to how it plans to get there: not just by selling models and software, but by sending people to help customers actually…
These 2 Builders Discovered the Potency of Going Analog: Reflections on the Human Power of CMU's Startup Week
Carnegie Mellon University Startup Week brings thousands of people from the startup, research and investment worlds together to learn and swap ideas. Participants from last year's inaugural event attest that the gathering across campus provided…
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup taps Meta veteran for top AI role
Travis Kalanick's new robotics startup, Atoms, has scooped up a high-profile hire. Vikas Chandra, a longtime Meta AI executive who led AI work for the company's smart glasses, announced Monday that he is joining the startup as vice president of AI.
AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round
Profound, which builds marketing software to help brands appear in AI search results, on Tuesday said it has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C. Sequoia and…
Israeli AI startup Buildots completes $130m. funding round
Israeli AI startup Buildots announced on Monday that it has completed a $130 million funding round, as the real estate AI and computer vision company sets its sights on an international market projected to reach approximately $1.4 trillion. The…
Cash Is King, Yet Growth Can Kill - Why Fast-Growing Startups Go Bankrupt
A startup can report strong revenue and healthy margins while still failing. Rapid growth often consumes cash before it produces it, since hiring, inventory, infrastructure and fulfillment costs arrive now while customer payments may arrive 30, 60…
Exclusive | FirstMark, Chemistry Invest in a Startup Building an Exchange for AI Compute Power
Early-stage investors FirstMark Capital and Chemistry Ventures are backing Liquid Compute, a startup looking to set up a regulated exchange for the fast-expanding market for artificial-intelligence computing capacity used by AI developers.
Why Google Picked 4 Indian Startups For Climate AI Programme
Google has selected four Indian climate-tech startups for its first Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet programme, backing AI- and satellite-driven solutions for agriculture, carbon removal and biodiversity. Google has selected four…
Exclusive: Manufacturing AI startup CADDi valued at $1.2 billion in $114 million funding round
CADDi, a startup that sells AI software to help manufacturers organize and use their engineering and production data, has raised $114 million in a new funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion. Eight new and existing investors took part…
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