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Deals for startups reach record in Japan before listing curbs
A plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of buyouts of young companies in Japan, reflecting Tokyo's push to create more billion-dollar startups to better match the country's global standing in…
Inside The Startup Paying Regular People To Promote Brands They Love
Selfie, social media and woman in city for post, internet update and online mobile app. Travel, emoji and happy female person take picture in town for memory or influencer blog on weekend When James Watt talks about advertising, he sounds less like…
8 European Defense Tech Startups to Watch
INDUSTRY Attack and surveillance drones Headquarters Hengelo, The Netherlands Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Kokorich founded Destinus in 2021 to develop hypersonic strike drones, loitering munitions and interceptors. Following Putin's full-scale…
Wearables Startups Are Having A Moment
Generally speaking, if you're wearing a technology on your body, you have to really love it or find it deeply useful or even essential. That's a high bar, which helps explain why wearables have long been a fairly niche area for startup investment.
Why Smart AI Startups Are Building On-Premise From Day One
Vimarsh Puneet, Director, Product Management, Enterprise AI, Cisco. I've been thinking a lot about a pattern I've noticed in recent enterprise AI conversations. We're seeing something that reminds me of the early cloud adoption days, but in…
Vibe coding startup Replit is projecting $1 billion in revenue by the end of 2026
The $3 billion developer AI startup Replit is riding the boom in vibe coding — and it has ambitious projections to match. The Silicon Valley startup, which builds technology to help people build apps and websites with AI, expects to surpass…
Lifeline Raises €400 Million for Major Europe Tech Startup Fund
Lifeline Ventures raised €400 million ($470 million) to create Finland's biggest fund investing in European technology startups, building on its track record of identifying unicorns. Among the investors in the fund, Lifeline's sixth, are…
How AI is reshaping the future of startups
What if AI could identify the next big opportunity for your startup? Yes, it is possible! With 71% of organizations using AI in business operations, AI-driven growth opportunities are on the rise. On the flip side, those who are not embracing AI…
Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs, a new startup by one of OpenAI's most respected researchers, Liam Fedus, and his former Google Brain colleague, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, came out of stealth last month with an enormous $300 million seed round. It was led by Felicis and…
This startup is building an agentic AI ad agency. See the pitch deck that helped it raise $12M.
Mark Zuckerberg, this year, set out a vision to entirely automate advertising, where brands can simply connect their bank account, set out the objective of their campaigns, and let Meta's artificial intelligence tech handle the rest. San…
OpenEvidence's Daniel Nadler $1.3 Billion Richer In Just Three Months After The AI Startup Hits $6 Billion Valuation
O penEvidence's new funding round, announced Monday, has made the startup behind an AI search tool for doctors much more valuable: worth $6 billion, up from $3.5 billion in July. It's also made Daniel Nadler, the company's CEO and cofounder, much…
Solar energy startup Active Surfaces wins inaugural PITCH.nano competition
The inaugural PITCH.nano competition, hosted by MIT.nano's hard technology accelerator START.nano, provided a platform for early-stage startups to present their innovations to MIT and Boston's hard-tech startup ecosystem. The grand prize winner was…
German startup brings recycled plastic asphalt to Scotland
The project marks ecopals' maiden venture on UK soil, and a milestone in the company's mission to make road construction more sustainable. To meet the performance demands of modern road infrastructure, conventional asphalt production relies on…
KPMG to Acquire Synthetic Data Startup YData
NEW YORK, October 20, 2025 – KPMG today announced an agreement to acquire the intellectual property and technology assets of YData Labs Inc., a synthetic data startup founded in 2019. With this acquisition, KPMG said it will strengthen its…
Coral Gables startup Surveill raises $1M to fuel the future of compliance AI
As co-founders of Surveill, a compliance intelligence startup in the financial services industry, Aydin Bonabi, his wife Asli Bonabi, and Ignacio Ortega deeply believe in human-led AI. They have built AI agents that act like compliance analysts…
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