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AI Startups With No Revenue Are Using This Tactic To Supersize Their Valuations
I n November 2025, David Silver, the renowned former scientist at Google DeepMind, dialed into a Zoom meeting with a venture capital firm to pitch his new startup Ineffable Intelligence. Silver, who spent over a decade at Google, believed the…
Drone Startup Elroy Air Is Said to Near $800 Million SPAC Deal
Elroy Air Inc., a cargo drone startup aiming to replace delivery trucks, is in advanced talks to go public through a merger with a blank-check vehicle that will create a company with an enterprise value of about $1 billion. The California-based…
Can a startup solve the sandwich generation?
For years, ambitious startup founders have tried to tackle some of the most important problems in the U.S.—like the caregiving crisis. Often, it's been proven that some problems (like access to child care) just require public-sector action…
Samsung Teams Up With US Battery Startup Seeking Pentagon Cash
Samsung SDI Co. has agreed to provide $20 million and engineering support to Forge Nano Inc., a US battery startup aiming to build cells for the US defense and aerospace industries at a new plant in North Carolina. The agreement, which also calls…
Cursor Deal Puts US On Track For Record Startup M&A Year
When someone spends $60 billion to buy a startup, M&A spending suddenly starts looking pretty robust. Those were the unsurprising findings of a Crunchbase analysis of U.S. startup acquisition outlays in 2026. So far this year, acquirers have spent…
AMD buys startup to transform SSDs into cheap 'virtual RAM
AMD has seen its Instinct GPUs continue to get traction in an increasingly competitive marketplace, as it continues to take data center market share from new and existing players and ekes out wins with gaming-centric CPUs in the consumer market.
Exclusive | Startup Arca Raises Fresh $48.5 Million to Disrupt the Wealth Advisory Business
Arca Financial has raised $48.5 million in fresh capital from investors led by General Catalyst, betting that integrating artificial intelligence and financial advisers will create a massive opportunity in wealth management. Index Ventures and…
See the pitch deck AI observability startup Sazabi used to raise $8 million seed round from YC and J2 Ventures
Sazabi has raised $8 million to expand its AI observability platform. The San Francisco-based startup says its monitoring, debugging, and incident response platform is designed for fast-moving engineering teams at startups using AI coding tools…
Hunting for Small-Town Talent; Gautam Adani Launches 'Vande Bharatam' Startup Search
Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group, celebrated his 64th birthday on Thursday by launching a massive national search program called 'Vande Bharatam'. The initiative wants to find and help promising innovators, problem-solvers, and small-town…
Key Steps to Grow Your Startup in Los Angeles, California
Growing a startup in Los Angeles can feel exciting, demanding, and unpredictable all at once. The city offers access to investors, creative talent, technology experts, diverse customers, and major business networks. It also comes with high…
EBRD and Microsoft Partner to Help African Startups Adopt AI and Scale
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Microsoft have entered a partnership aimed at helping promising African startups use artificial intelligence to improve their operations and prepare for expansion. The organizations signed a…
Japan's Largest Startup Conference - IVS Is Back, Introduces IVS CORE with Crypto Stage Returns
Kyoto, Japan, June 24th, 2026, Chainwire IVS2026, Japan's largest startup event, will take place over three days from July 1 to 3, 2026, in Kyoto. In addition to the main venue at Miyako Messe, IVS introduces “IVS CORE” —an…
How one foreign entrepreneur is building a future in Korea - on his own terms
Every summer, thousands of international students across Korea step off the stage at graduation and into a high-stakes countdown. With student visas ticking toward expiration, they find themselves in the race to secure full-time employment in a…
Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
Consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, trend data from credit card transaction analysis company Indagari shows. This is a sign that the AI lab has a wider and healthier set of customers than the niche it is…
AI Is Automating Marketing Execution But Raising The Value Of Judgment
Jay Sen, CEO of JV Capital | 4X Founder, 2X Exits | Investor & Strategic Advisor | AI/ML Innovator Driving Startup Growth. Marketing has always evolved alongside technology. But AI isn't just accelerating existing workflows, it's changing how…
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