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The 2026 Startup Battlefield Top 20: From organs to orbit and everything in between
Twenty founders just earned their shot at Disrupt glory. They're headed to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to compete for the $100,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup. Every year, thousands of founders from around the world pitch us on…
Exclusive: Rivian's startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field
Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's latest project: Mind Robotics. Field has been hired as…
Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy
Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced high-profile lawsuits over the deaths of minors, has declared bankruptcy. Character.AI announced last night that it had entered a “voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process” and is…
U.S. Defense Startups Flock to Taiwan to Build China-Free Drones
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan —Ever since former U.S. Navy flight officer Paul Lwin founded defense startup HavocAI in Rhode Island in 2024, he has seen Taiwan as an island of opportunity. Lwin designs software to manage autonomous maritime…
This Y Combinator startup raised $6.1 million to let non-techies ship code
The way engineers, product managers, and designers work together is still slow and janky, says one Y Combinator-backed startup. Now, it's raised $6.1 million to help non-engineers directly make changes to a company's existing codebase using AI…
Jump Trading Hires Startup Founders to Lead Compute Desk
Jump Trading has hired the founding team of a startup that trades access to computing power, according to a statement on social media, as market makers move into an emerging asset class underpinning the AI boom. Jump has ‘ acqui-hired '…
Business Incubation Center helps local startups enter global markets
Jeonbuk National University's Business Incubation Center is helping promising local startups enter global markets by developing overseas sales channels and strengthening their brand competitiveness. The university said the center is working to…
IBM India MD Sandip Patel On AI, Digital Swaraj, And Startup Ecosystem
IBM India and South Asia Managing Director Sandip Patel highlights India's unique opportunity to lead the artificial intelligence revolution, emphasizing the nation's 'build for billions' approach and the strategic importance of 'digital swaraj'…
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
And it's got company. Industry rival Sunset also has a rapidly growing data resale business. Founder and CEO Brendan Mahony says Sunset values a dying client's assets by head count, years in operation, volume of data, and how the team used its…
Seoul AI startup secures prized gateway to US market via New York program
A Seoul-based AI startup has joined a prestigious New York City commercialization program, opening a rare doorway to test its products with American companies and court global investors. NextPayments was the only Korean company among 14 startups…
Startup Causa Prima raises $20 million to tackle billing disputes with AI agents
Artificial intelligence is becoming a fixture in the workplace. Soon, many firms will have agents that don't just operate within a business—but also interact with agents at other companies. One startup is trying to jump-start that future…
How NYC twins built a telehealth platform after a $500K startup setback
Twin brothers Zachary and Elias Dorf thought they'd found the perfect business opportunity. Instead, they spent nearly $500,000 and the better part of a year building an online telehealth business focused on eyelash treatments that didn't take off.
We Grow with the World and for the World': PM Modi Highlights Startup Growth, Digital Innovation
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday highlighted India's digital ecosystem and the role of technology in promoting inclusion, citing the country's digital payment platform as an example of how businesses of different scales can access…
2.5 Lakh Startups, Affordable Internet: PM Modi's Big Message to the World | Dynamite News
Post Published By: Rishira Jain Updated: 13 October 2026, 11:36 AM IST New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for a shift from concentrating power to using it for wider social and economic empowerment, arguing that technology…
Dublin city start-up hub planned as Startup Ireland gets official launch
A new Dublin city centre hub and an AI accelerator delivered by Dogpatch Labs are among the first initiatives under the new cross-government programme. It had been signposted for some time, and got a mention in the Budget 2027 speeches, but…
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