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This Startup Aims To Catapult Satellites Into Space
Catapulting satellites into space. Making all the data center heat useful. Why memory technology needs disrupting. All that and more in this week's Prototype. To get it in your inbox, sign up here. As I mentioned earlier this month, the space…
The One Trait That Actually Predicts Startup Success (Hint: It's Not Age)
The startups that scale and endure aren't led by the fastest movers — they're led by founders who know how to turn hard-won experience into sharper judgment and discipline. If you lack experience in a critical area, the fastest way to close…
Why Joining The Right Startup Is So Important: A Guide For Graduates
Vikram Joshi, Founder and CTO at pulsd —a company in the business of democratizing fun in New York City. The allure of the startup world is attractive for recent graduates. The idea of rapid career acceleration, equity and a dynamic…
Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
A years-long lawsuit between the college-focused social app Fizz and rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices has taken an interesting turn. In a new filing, Fizz is accusing investor Jerry Lu, who is with venture capital firm Maveron, of…
Startup Gets VC Funding To Bring AI to the Circular Economy
A Berlin-based startup has just secured a seven-figure investment to bring its product to new heights, after it developed an AI-powered solution that can sort recyclable and reuseable garments from a pile of discarded clothes. Reverse.fashion…
Ex-Banker With 'Boring' AI Startup Pleads Guilty in Insider Case
Arya Bolurfrushan left Wall Street in 2008 to go to Harvard Business School. A decade after graduating the university, where he published a paper on private equity in the Middle East, he founded his own startup, AppliedAI, based in Abu Dhabi. He…
Startup testing nuclear battery technology in orbit
WASHINGTON — A Florida startup has launched what it says is the first commercial demonstration of a nuclear-powered satellite technology, testing a power source that could allow future spacecraft and autonomous sensors to operate for years…
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals that may have flown under the radar. Check out our previous entry here. Our inboxes overflowed with interesting deals in the past month, but we managed to sift through…
Apple talking to a startup that could cram GPT-class AI into your iPhone
Apple's on-device ambitions just got more interesting. The company has reportedly been talking to a startup that claims to run a massive, server-grade language model on the iPhone 17 Pro — no cloud required. If it holds up, it would be a big…
Cloud Star DoiT On Buying Startups, AI 'Tokenomics' Shift And AWS BVR Competency
DoiT has acquired five companies over the past 18 months as the channel star dives deep into AI cost management innovation and drives billions in AWS sales as it achieves AWS' new Business Value Realization (BVR) Competency. The Santa Clara…
Bill Gurley's Expert Advice On Investing When Valuations Are Sky High
Think this is nice? It's a version of the weekly Under 30 newsletter and would be even better in your inbox. Bill Gurley switched his career twice before ending up in Silicon Valley. First in computer engineering, which felt too siloed; and later…
Phia accused of 'cookie stuffing,' taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn't earn
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates' daughter, Phoebe Gates, and Sophia Kianni, has been accused of a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which may have helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it…
Web Scraper Sets $1 Million 'Bug Bounty' As Industry Scrutinized
Bright Data Ltd., an Israel-based startup that sells web scraping tools and datasets, is set to announce a $1 million “bug bounty” to root out bad actors as law enforcement steps up scrutiny of its industry. The company, one of the…
The space industry is weighing ambitious hiring against heritage
Space is hard, as the decades-old adage goes. For much of the industry's history, “rocket science” was as much a barrier to entry as a byword for difficulty. But now a growing swell of young ventures is attracting millions of dollars…
Google's SensorFM Reveals Where AI Takes Wearable Health
Close-up of arm of a man wearing a Fitbit Versa smart watch displaying sleep tracking data, a recently expanded capability of several Fitbit products, San Ramon, California, September 12, 2019. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Google's…
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