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forbes.com - Rashi Shrivastava - AI Companies Are Paying This Indian Startup To Strap Cameras To Housekeepers' Heads
AI Companies Are Paying This Indian Startup To Strap Cameras To Housekeepers' Heads
Forbes

On a Tuesday evening in early July, Anushka Ahuja, a dentist in Gurgaon, India, opens the door for the house help she booked ten minutes ago on Pronto, an app that provides instant professional cleaning services like sweeping, mopping and laundry…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
TechCrunch

Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Defense Department engineers in 2017 — five years before ChatGPT's public launch…

businessinsider.com - Katie Roof - Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $3 billion valuation
Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $3 billion valuation
Business Insider

Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks with investors to raise a new funding round that would value the company at $3 billion. Venture firm 8VC is expected to lead the round, according to people familiar with the discussions. The round is in…

bloomberg.com - Angus Whitley - Australian Airline Startup Koala Plots New Model to Dodge Qantas
Australian Airline Startup Koala Plots New Model to Dodge Qantas
Bloomberg

Australian startup Koala Airlines Pty said it's in talks with more than 10 foreign carriers to provide domestic flights for their passengers after they arrive in the country, a new business model designed to avoid competition with Qantas Airways…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
TechCrunch

Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents securely pull in outside data and tools — has filed a lawsuit against HR software startup Rippling, according to the…

ndtv.com - Pallava Bagla - The LinkedIn Message That Sparked A Billion-Dollar Rocket Startup
The LinkedIn Message That Sparked A Billion-Dollar Rocket Startup
NDTV

Vikram-1's spectacular liftoff captured in slow motion Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Mukesh Bansal invested Rs 10 crore in Skyroot Aerospace after a cold LinkedIn message in 2018 Skyroot became India's first private company to launch…

crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo - Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A 'Deal GPS' For Enterprise Sales
Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A 'Deal GPS' For Enterprise Sales
Crunchbase

While working as a product tech lead at a startup, Rachit Kataria watched a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar enterprise account suddenly fall into jeopardy. After pausing his entire engineering team's workload for two weeks to ship a requested fix, he…

entrepreneur.com - Jonathan Small - The Ultra-Wealthy Pay Up to $100,000 a Year for Elite Healthcare. This Startup Wants to Bring It to Everyone for a Fraction of the Price.
The Ultra-Wealthy Pay Up to $100,000 a Year for Elite Healthcare. This Startup Wants to Bring It to Everyone for a Fraction of the Price.
Homepage | Entrepreneur

Max Marchione struggled for years to get a real diagnosis, an experience that led him to found Superpower, now valued at more than $500 million. For $199 a year, members get a full blood panel, an AI health protocol and care team access.

spacenews.com - Andrew Jones - Chinese startup raises funds for space situational awareness constellation, joining commercial SSA rush
Chinese startup raises funds for space situational awareness constellation, joining commercial SSA rush
SpaceNews: The space industry's source

SINGAPORE — A Beijing-based startup has secured around $14 million to build a satellite constellation for tracking orbital objects, adding to China's growing SSA sector. Xingchen Daohe, also known as Stars Harmony, was reported to have…

refreshmiami.com - Nancy Dahlberg - Pet wellness startup Golden Child launched at Atomic names DTC veteran as CEO
Pet wellness startup Golden Child launched at Atomic names DTC veteran as CEO
Refresh Miami

Golden Child, a Miami-based pet wellness brand, announced today that consumer industry veteran Connor Stastny is its new Chief Executive Officer. Stastny joins the startup following a successful tenure scaling high-growth direct-to-consumer brands…

thehindu.com - Sangeetha Kandavel - Chennai-based Anicut Capital to invest in 20 startups with ₹175-crore fund
Chennai-based Anicut Capital to invest in 20 startups with ₹175-crore fund
The Hindu

Chennai-headquartered Anicut Capital, an alternative asset management company managing multiple Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) across both debt and equity strategies, has launched Grand Anicut Seed Fund (GASF) with a target corpus of…

axios.com - Ina Fried - Exclusive: Andrew Ng's new AI-powered ed tech startup gets $100 million
Exclusive: Andrew Ng's new AI-powered ed tech startup gets $100 million
Axios

Coursera is putting $100 million into LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng, a pioneer in AI and Coursera's chairman and co-founder, the companies shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The investment is one of the largest…

psu.edu - Jeff Mulhollem - Penn State researchers evaluating biomass-to-gasoline startup in northern Pa. | Penn State University
Penn State researchers evaluating biomass-to-gasoline startup in northern Pa. | Penn State University
Discover Penn State

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Researchers in the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences are working with the entrepreneur behind the proposed startup of an innovative woody biomass-to-energy facility planned for north central Pennsylvania to…

siliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley - Optical interconnect startup Eliyan raises $145M in funding to solve the AI chip cluster connectivity crunch
Optical interconnect startup Eliyan raises $145M in funding to solve the AI chip cluster connectivity crunch
SiliconANGLE

Silicon Valley-based chip interconnect startup Eliyan Corp.'s valuation has increased to $1 billion after it closed on a $145 million Series C funding round today. Seligman Ventures led the round, with Cisco Ventures and Lumentum also backing the…

cyprus-mail.com - Public finance body targets SMEs and startups in Cyprus
Public finance body targets SMEs and startups in Cyprus
Cyprus Mail

Cyprus' newly established Cyprus Business Development Organisation is expected to become operational within the next 12 to 18 months, despite legislation creating the institution having already been approved by parliament. The organisation is…

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