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CrowdStrike to shell out nearly $500M for 2 AI security startups as the market for securing agents takes off
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike is buying two AI security companies that expand its products to more broadly monitor, test, and cover AI models and agents, as companies across industries start rolling out AI agents and models wholesale. CrowdStrike…
Yvonne Bajela is bringing $17M in fresh capital to Europe's startup scene
Yvonne Bajela knew it was time to launch her own fund. She spent more than a decade as a VC, most recently at LocalGlobe and Impact X Capital Partners, where she made bets on now-unicorn companies like the fintech Wise, the insurance company…
Taiwan's AI stock boom is making early-stage startups a tougher pitch
Taiwan's AI stock boom is creating more ways for investors to profit from its chip supply chain, making early-stage startups a tougher pitch. Taiwan's benchmark Taiex index is up more than 50% this year, making it the world's best-performing major…
China's Largest Startup Deal Ever Lifts Global Venture Funding To $59B In October
Global venture funding in October totaled $59 billion, a 45% jump from a year earlier, per Crunchbase data, in large part due to a record-setting deal for China's DeepSeek. The company's $15.9 billion funding round marked the largest-ever venture…
Why this Kigali startup wants children to explore careers early
Many young people reach university without a clear idea of what they want to become, often making decisions about their education and future careers with limited knowledge of the opportunities available to them. For Kigali-based education…
China and Russia have hypersonic missiles. This $13 billion startup wants the U.S. to catch up
For the last couple of months, when someone asked what I was working on, I'd mention in passing “a hypersonics startup,” and almost always got stopped: Wait, roll that back. The startup is Castelion, based in Torrance, Calif. and…
A Startup Wants to Put 50,000 Mirrors in Space. The Goal: Make Sunlight Available at Night.
With the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, humanity officially entered the satellite era, and in the ensuing decades, the thousands of satellites sent into space have drastically changed life on the ground. These sprawling networks of orbital…
Meet Cyclon, the startup building an AI agent OS phone for the post-iPhone future
The handling of these tasks by agents will happen in the background, Zinebi said in a post on X on Monday, November 2. One of Cyclon's demo videos demonstrates a user asking the phone to find a contract in Google Drive, share the link with his…
College Of The Canyons Student's Startup Wins $10,000 Oceaneering Collegiate Award
Jimenez, the sole community college student among 10 finalists from colleges and universities across the nation, received the $10,000 Oceaneering Collegiate Award on behalf of Noble Deep at the 2026 Ocean Exchange event held Oct. 25-27 in Fort…
Kazakhstan's Copper Heist? Turkish Tycoon Readies Arbitration After Astana Gives His Mines To A Week-Old Startup
Kazakhstan has spent the past four years telling foreign investors that the Nazarbayev era of cronyism is over. A Turkish billionaire who sank roughly $200 million into two Kazakh copper mines is about to test that claim in front of the World Bank.
The Selloff Didn't Stop Salesforce From Spending $2.7 Billion on an AI Startup
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Robotics startup Tutor Intelligence nabs $75M investment - SiliconANGLE
Warehouse automation provider Tutor Intelligence Inc. today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A investment. It was joined by Union Square Ventures and Neo, which led Tutor's previous two rounds.
Startup Athena raises $2.5M in pre-seed funding to revamp the revenue model for legal AI - SiliconANGLE
Athena Circle Corp., an artificial intelligence-native legal technology startup that's automating the nitty gritty of commercial real estate deals, said today it has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Andreessen…
Compute Crunch? Startups Aim to Financialize It
Can AI compute be traded like a commodity? A handful of startups, including a buzzy company called Ornn, are betting big on the concept as they work to create standardized pricing for GPU usage and connect buyers and sellers with commodities-style…
Bonkers' founders' relief criticised over rules that could punish startup growth
John Healey's flagship tax break for entrepreneurs has been branded “bonkers” by leading economists, who warn its restrictive rules could punish startup growth and encourage founders to make decisions that damage productivity. The new…
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