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IT Setup For Startups: A Guide For Small Businesses
Kathleen Hurley is the founder of Sage Inc., a tech company that offers SMB businesses infrastructure solutions and next-gen technology. Setting up IT infrastructure for a new small business isn't one-size-fits-all. Understanding what you need…
Tokyo startup envisions a world where nothing stays lost
This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Tokyo Updates website. With the vision of creating 'a world where every lost item is found,' Find Inc. runs Find (stylized as find), a cloud-based…
Building A One-Person Unicorn? This Startup Just Raised $8.7M To Help
At The General Intelligence Company, an agent monitors the support inbox. When a customer requests a feature, the agent writes the code, submits it for review, and pushes it toward production. No human touches it until the final approval. This…
Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When most people need to go number one, they find the nearest bathroom and don't give half a thought to what happens to their pee once it disappears down the toilet or urinal. It turns…
Startup Funding In 2026: How Unicorns Will Take Off Without Early VC
Financing is one of the most misunderstood – and most challenging – parts of building a startup. Many entrepreneurs believe they must secure venture capital early to succeed. Yet research into America's billion-dollar founders reveals…
Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales
Quilt, the Redwood City-based, California startup that's created sleek, customizable heat pumps, has raised $20 million in a Series B round that closed recently. The company previously raised a $33 million Series A, which it announced in April…
US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk's X
WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp has abandoned them. The…
Hollywood Legend Turned Startup Investor Jeffrey Katzenberg On Where He's Placing His AI Bets
When Jeffrey Katzenberg sold DreamWorks Animation in 2016, he knew his next venture would be technology related. Soon after the sale, he teamed up with former NEA principal Sujay Jaswa in 2016 to found WndrCo, a holding company and venture capital…
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Tether Invests in Italian Robotics Startup Generative Bionics Amid Humanoid Hype
Tether has entered the humanoid robotics race. The company said Monday it invested in Generative Bionics as part of a €70 million (US$81 million) round, joining a sector dominated by firms like Tesla and Nvidia. Tether said its funding will…
AI computer startup hits $4.5 billion valuation in seed round
(Bloomberg/Rachel Metz) — A two-month-old startup from the former head of artificial intelligence at Databricks Inc. has raised a seed round of funding from investors at a valuation of $4.5 billion for its effort to build a novel, more…
U.S. startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk's X
A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp has abandoned them. The Virginia-based startup…
Is AI killing the Classic Startup Model? A New Theory Emerges
For two decades, Silicon Valley has operated on the ‘zero to one' playbook, a business theory obsessed with value extraction, creating centralized monopolies, and capturing user attention. But in the age of autonomous systems, this classic…
Tiny AI startup just crushed Google's Gemini 3 on a key reasoning test - here's what we know
Since Gemini 3 made its debut, it has successfully held the top spot on the LMArena leaderboard. This leaderboard is a crowdsourced ranking where thousands of real users compare AI models head-to-head across a wide range of tasks, voting on which…
6 Game-Changing AR Moves in 2025 That Meta And Startups Just Revealed
Surprise greets 6 AR shifts in 2025. The pace of change accelerated this week as major players reprioritized bets and made strategic buys. The New York Times, TechCrunch and The Verge report fresh moves – budget cuts at Meta, an acquisition…
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