Startup Industry News
A collection of Startup latest news, analysis and best practices from top business influencers and the world's most trustworthy sources.
Scaling Care: What Startups Can Learn From Community Healthcare
Christine Schuster, RN, MBA, President and CEO, Emerson Health. When people think about innovation, their minds often go to venture capital, rapid growth cycles and technologies that promise to disrupt entire industries. But innovation isn't…
Why Cursor's CEO believes OpenAI, Anthropic competition won't crush his startup
Anysphere, the company that makes AI coding assistant darling Cursor, isn't thinking about an IPO any time soon, its co-founder CEO Michael Truell said onstage Monday at Fortune's AI Brainstorming conference. After reaching $1 billion in annualized…
Hinge founder leaves CEO role to launch AI-powered dating startup
Hinge founder Justin McLeod is stepping down as CEO of the dating app to launch an AI-powered dating service. McLeod will be replaced by Jackie Jantos, the dating app's president and chief marketing officer, Hinge parent company Match Group…
Hinge CEO McLeod stepping down to lead Match Group-backed AI dating startup
Dec 9 (Reuters) - Match Group said on Tuesday that Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod will step down to launch Overtone, an AI-powered dating venture backed by the company, signaling a major bet on artificial intelligence. Jackie Jantos, currently…
Startup announces 'Galactic Brain' project to put AI data centers in orbit
Aetherflux, a space-based solar technology company hoping to beam power down to Earth, is now throwing its hat into the orbital data center ring. The company's new 'Galactic Brain' project aims to speed up artificial intelligence data center…
Exclusive | Cyber Startup Saviynt Raises $700 Million to Secure Identity and Access
Saviynt, an identity and access management startup, raised $700 million in an outsize Series B funding round, reflecting a heated market for internal safeguards as companies race to automate business processes, the company said. The round, which…
PubMatic Strikes Deal With Startup Kontext to Inject Ads Into AI Chatbots Via Programmatic Auctions
With ads coming to Gemini, clues about potential in-app ad products appearing in ChatGPT's code, and ads already running in Anthropic's Claude and Google's AI Mode, it's clear that the world's leading AI labs are looking to brands to monetize their…
Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux enters orbital data center race
TAMPA, Fla. — Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux has thrown its hat into the emerging market for orbital data centers, joining SpaceX, Amazon and others exploring ways to move energy-hungry artificial intelligence compute off Earth.
Identity management startup Saviynt closes $700M investment
Saviynt Inc., a startup that helps enterprises regulate how users and applications access their internal systems, has closed a $700 million funding round. The company disclosed in its announcement of the deal today that KKR was the lead investor.
Cashew Research is going after the $90B market research industry with AI
Market research is a $90 billion dollar industry that helps brands figure out how to best present themselves to potential customers. But that market insight isn't cheap, nor is it quick. Cashew Research wants to change that using AI. Calgary…
Exclusive: African e-mobility startup shifts strategy amid China competition
One of Africa's leading e-mobility startups is shifting strategy in response to mounting competition from Chinese manufacturers, its CEO told Semafor. Ampersand, a Rwanda and Kenya-based manufacturer of electric motorcycles and batteries, will make…
The Israeli startup servicing the self-employment boom
In a glass room impervious to noise at the startup Tailor Brands in Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv sits company founder and CEO Yali Saar. In the corridor outside an electronic music set plays while the workers, most of them young people in their…
Snowflake Ventures invests in data trust startup Ataccama to boost agentic reliability
Agentic data trust company Ataccama Corp. said today it has closed on a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount from Snowflake Ventures. The data company said it would help deepen its interaction with Snowflake Inc.'s AI Data Cloud platform…
European energy storage startups raise €2.14 billion in equity funding
As energy storage becomes increasingly vital for renewable integration, grid resilience, and energy security, investors are ramping up support for technology developers. While China continues to dominate manufacturing, European energy storage…
Atlassian snaps up data cataloging startup Secoda
IT collaboration software vendor Atlassian has acquired Secoda, a Toronto-based startup specializing in data cataloging, for an undisclosed fee. Founded in 2021, Secoda's platform is designed to make organizational data available to everyone…
Receive a Daily briefing on Startup Industry News
Get Started