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The Startup Building An Operating System For Biotech AI

Building an AI infrastructure for biotech. Bacteria that munch on cancer. How to best make a cold brew. All that and more in this week's edition of The Prototype. To get it in your inbox, sign up here. Tamarind Bio cofounders Sherry Liu and Deniz…

Sector Snapshot: Space Tech Startup Funding Still Flying High

Among the kindergarten set, Space Unicorn refers to a popular song about a celestial equine with marshmallow lasers. In the less imaginative realm of venture funding, the term denotes a far less magical but much more visible creature: A space tech…

Korea-Africa Foundation to support 15 startups seeking to enter African markets

The Korea-Africa Foundation said Friday it will offer support to 15 Korean startups this year seeking to enter markets in Africa. Under the program aimed at helping startups expand their businesses overseas, the foundation said it will select the…

Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE ahead of public debut

Einride has secured an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) ahead of its public debut that's expected for the first half of 2026. The Swedish startup is most well-known for building both electric trucks and…

This startup wants to bring back snail mail with an AI-powered app. Read the Notion memo it used to raise $2.8 million.

'Happy Birthday!' texts, emails, or social media posts don't quite have the same pizzazz as opening up a physical card in the mail. Cousins Andrew Gold and Aaron Albert want to revive the art of mailing greeting cards for Gen Z and millennials with…

AI song generator startups Suno and Udio angered the music industry. Now they're hoping to join it

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MATT O'BRIEN and RODRIQUE NGOWI CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Suno CEO Mikey Shulman pulls up a chair to the recording studio desk where a research scientist at his artificial intelligence company is…

Steel startup announces $875M factory, hundreds of jobs in northeastern North Carolina

U.S. Forged Rings, a startup that plans to make steel piping and components for industrial customers, said Thursday that it plans to build a manufacturing hub in Hertford County — a project that could bring more than 700 high-paying jobs and…

The Trump administration's favorite nuclear startup has ties to Russia and Epstein

Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. At 26, Isaiah Taylor had accomplished more than most people do by the time they're twice his age. The founder of Valar Atomics, a…

T-Hub to assist Tripura in building startup ecosystem

Technology startup incubator T-Hub has entered into a partnership with the Tripura government's Directorate of Information Technology to build a structured and long-term startup ecosystem in the north-eastern State. T-Hub will work with the…

Australian startup scaling up printed solar technology

Newcastle-based printed solar technology company Kardinia Energy has received AUD 2.15 million ($1.5 million) in funding from the Australian government Industry Growth Program (IGP) to help accelerate the scale-up of its flexible printed solar…

How Misfits Market Grew Into A $500 Million Revenue Business

Think this is nice? It's a version of the weekly Under 30 newsletter and would be even better in your inbox. In 2018, fed up with the sheer volume of perfectly edible food going to waste, Abhi Ramesh decided to take matters into his own hands.

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Ultrahuman bets on redesigned smart ring to win back U.S. market after Oura dispute

Ultrahuman on Friday unveiled a new smart ring with longer battery life and a redesigned form factor, as the Bengaluru-based wearable maker seeks to revive its U.S. business that was disrupted last year by a patent dispute with rival Oura. The Ring…

Physical AI data infrastructure startup Encord lands $60M to accelerate intelligent robot and drone development

Data infrastructure startup Encord has closed on $60 million in new funding to help move robots, drones and other autonomous physical artificial intelligence systems from the lab into real-world production settings. Today's Series C round was led…

No, AI is not about to kill the software industry

Hello again, and thank you, as always, for spending time with Fast Company 's Plugged In. In a remarkably influential 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen declared that software was…