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How AI Startup Decagon Plans To Take On Salesforce And Sierra
On a Friday afternoon in late October, Jesse Zhang, the 28-year-old cofounder and CEO of AI customer service startup Decagon, strides through the lush greenery of San Francisco's Salesforce Park, a sprawling rooftop garden in the shadow of the…
Drone startups are racing to secure massive US government contracts - here's who's winning
Founders include: Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, Joseph Chen Total funding: $6.8 billion, according to the company Key investors: Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, 8VC, Lux Capital, Valor Equity…
Nvidia-backed $4 billion AI startup announces major London expansion
Nvidia-backed video generation startup Luma AI is launching a hiring spree in London. The U.S. company announced a $900 million funding round led by Humain, which saw it hit a $4 billion valuation. Luma will look to hire around 200 employees in…
€150 million agreement between EIB and Angelini Ventures to finance European startups
This is the first agreement signed by the EIB with a corporate venture capital in the healthcare sector, and is part of the EU strategy to support the development of innovative companies across the continent. Angelini Ventures and the EIB will each…
Sales And Use Tax: What Every High-Growth Startup Should Know About Compliance
For companies in rapid growth mode, sales and use tax compliance tends to sit low on the priority list. And then, it suddenly matters. But as companies scale across states and/or add new revenue streams, tax exposure also can quietly expand in the…
AI Startup Upstage Hires KB Securities, Mirae for Korea IPO
South Korean AI startup Upstage has hired KB Securities Co. and Mirae Asset Securities Co. to assist with an initial public offering as early as the second half of 2026, according to people familiar with the matter. The Seoul-based company plans to…
What does it mean when Uncle Sam is one of your biggest shareholders? Chip startup xLight is about to find out
The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into xLight, a semiconductor startup developing advanced chip-making technology, marking the third time the U.S. government has taken an equity position in a private startup and…
How AI PR startup Clipbook won Mark Cuban's investment from a cold email
On Monday, Clipbook, an AI-powered platform that helps companies monitor their media coverage, announced a $3 million seed round co-led by Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures, and Carpenter Capital. The deal happened because Clipbook's founder, Adam…
Trump Administration to Take Equity Stake in Former Intel CEO's Chip Startup
The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into a startup trying to develop more advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques in the U.S., its latest bid to support strategically important domestic industries with…
Anthropic is all in on 'AI safety'-and that's helping the $183 billion startup win over big business
Dario Amodei is, in his telling, the accidental CEO of an accidental business—one that just happens to be among the fastest-growing on the planet. “When we first started Anthropic, we didn't have any idea about how we would make…
What Is XLight - The Chip Startup Getting A £120M Lifeline From Trump Govt?
The U.S. government's decision to inject up to $150 million (roughly £120 million) into xLight has gotten global attention. Backed by the administration of Donald Trump, the funding marks a massive intervention in the semiconductor sector.
Retail operations automation startup Duvo raises $15M
Automation startup Duvo says it's ready to provide retail and e-commerce teams with an artificial intelligence agent workforce that handles their day-to-day operations after raising $15 million in seed funding. Today's round was led by Index…
30 Under 30 Manufacturing & Industry 2026: Meet The Young Entrepreneurs Constructing A Better Future
W hen Katherine Sizov learned over 40% of food is wasted before it's consumed, she was driven into action. Her company, Strella, uses AI models and sensors to monitor produce supply chains—knowing when apples and pears are ripe before it's…
CEPT University, Chennai-based startup join hands to set up on-campus additive manufacturing, 3D concrete printing facility
CEPT UNIVERSITY will establish an additive manufacturing and 3D concrete printing workshop on its campus with the help of Chennai-based deep-tech startup Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions, with which it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on…
Akamai acquires WebAssembly function-as-a-service startup Fermyon
Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fermyon Inc., a startup with a function-as-a-service platform based on WebAssembly. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fermyon previously raised $20 million in funding from…
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