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Apply now for the Google for Startups Gemini Startup Forum.
Applications are open for our two-day, Bay Area Forum supporting innovative startups that are using AI. Created in partnership with Google DeepMind and Google Cloud, the Gemini Startup Forum connects the founders of seed to Series A startups from…
Admissions And Business Leaders: Looking For A Startup Mentality
Joash Lee is the Founder and CEO of Sedifly, a global EdTech firm democratizing access to education. Ask a venture capitalist what they look for in a founder, and you'll likely hear some version of: scrappy, fast to iterate, unfazed by rejection…
Meet the judges who will crown Australia's next breakout startup
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney to pitch…
How Outsourcing Is Rapidly Becoming A New Growth Engine For Startups
Vidya Plainfield is Growth Officer at TechSpeed Inc. Outsourcing was once a strategy available only to big multinational corporations that could afford to build partnerships across time zones, language barriers and international borders.
Industrial automation startup Atoms raises $1.7B in funding
Atoms, a startup led by Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, has closed a $1.7 billion investment. The company disclosed in its Wednesday funding announcement that Andreessen Horowitz led the raise. The venture capital firm was joined…
Meet 22 VCs on the hunt for the next breakout startup in social media
Investors: Andrew Chen, general partner; Olivia Moore, partner; Justine Moore, partner Andreessen Horowitz backed many of the biggest hits of the mobile era, including Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, and Roblox. It's also backed a slew of social…
These franchises have the lowest startup costs - and none are fast-food restaurants
Entrepreneur David Hack is typically drawn to tech ventures, but he decided a few years ago he wanted to build a brick-and-mortar business his family could get involved in. While researching potential options, he found opportunity in a fast-growing…
Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B - its third round in 8 weeks
Insurance tech, data room software, and coffee-shop startup Corgi is reportedly raising yet another round that closely follows its last raise and would double its valuation, sources have told Forbes. The round is said to be a second extension of…
Martha Stewart has been waiting decades to build this AI startup
Yesterday's newsletter came your way from a winding drive up to Katonah, New York. I was writing from the backseat, on my way to Martha Stewart's farm, where she'd invited a small group of journalists to preview the latest in her never-ending…
Israeli startup Glow raises $180m for AI endpoint security platform
Israeli cybersecurity startup Glow emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, launching an AI-powered platform designed to prevent security threats from reaching corporate devices. Glow focuses on…
Meet the Duke startup trying to change up the satellite imaging business
Backed by more than $7 million in seed funding, a Duke University spinout is hoping to launch a new generation of satellite cameras into space in the next few years. Why it matters: Extellis is one of the latest startups to emerge from research at…
C-suites pile into ex-Eucalyptus staff's new hangover startup
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
FIU's RRTH Innovation Center opens applications to support resilient infrastructure startups
Hurricanes, flooding, and aging infrastructure are pushing South Florida to find new solutions faster, and Florida International University's Risk and Resilience Tech Hub (RRTH) wants to help get them there. RRTH is a research and innovation…
AI chip startup Etched more than doubles valuation to $10.3B in new $300M round
Etched Inc., a startup with a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference, today announced that it has raised $300 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Sequoia. SK Hynix Inc., the world's largest supplier of memory for AI…
Real-time speech intelligence startup Cast Insights raises $4.5M to track the world's TV, radio and podcasts
Cast Insights, a startup that's building a real-time competitive intelligence layer for ephemeral speech, launched its platform today after closing on $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by Abstract Ventures and saw…
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