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A married founder duo's company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups
The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm bells for the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry. On the other hand, AI-powered customer support startups such as Decagon…
How to Keep Your Entrepreneurial Identity After Selling a Startup
An exit isn't an ending; entrepreneurs must prepare identity, purpose and creation. The reward of selling is the chance to build again, smarter, faster. You sell your startup, the check clears and suddenly you don't know who you are anymore. That's…
Avoid These Tax Pitfalls When Expanding Your Startup Overseas
Plan early and get expert advice to avoid costly tax and compliance surprises abroad. Understand local and U.S. reporting rules before hiring or opening accounts internationally. Whether you reside in the U.S. or abroad, expanding your U.S. startup…
The North Face's former CEO just bet his reputation on this tiny startup
Over the last decade, as consumers became more aware of climate change, the fashion industry suddenly scrambled to curb its enormous environmental footprint. Everyone from Prada to H&M launched products made of recycled nylon and organic cotton.
Exclusive | Startup Making AI Chips More Power-Efficient Raises $500 Million
Ayar Labs, a decade-old chip startup backed by and, has raised $500 million from investors including Neuberger Berman, MediaTek, Qatar Investment Authority and others in a funding round that values it at $3.8 billion. The company, which is trying…
Ex-Zomato CEO's new startup and xAI's early payback
🌎 Gropyus, an Austrian robotic building materials company, raised €100m from Vonovia and Semapa Next. Go deeper 💊 QL Biopharm, a Beijing obesity biotech, raised $72m in Series C funding. OrbiMed led, joined by Qiming Venture…
The drone-making startup with big dreams of securing Nigeria
Inside a sprawling factory in Idu, an industrial town 10 miles from the center of the Nigerian capital Abuja, a masked engineer welds metal to assemble an armored robot. Nearby, young technicians box drones ready for delivery to customers. They are…
Rent a Tree, an agri-startup from Kochi, provides mango trees for lease across India
Kochi-based entrepreneur Umesh Damodaran ran an edu-tech startup in Bengaluru from 2018 to 2023, constantly shuttling between the two cities. During one of his travels, he came across a few export-quality Alphonso mangoes in Palakkad, Kerala, which…
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Deepinder Goyal Raises ₹493 Cr for Wearable Startup Temple
Temple, a new wearable startup founded by Deepinder Goyal, has raised ₹493 Cr at a post-money valuation of ₹1,700 Cr. The round values Temple at a post-money valuation of about ₹1,700 crore ($187 million). The capital came…
Behavioral health software startup Ease Health launches with $41M
Ease Health Inc., a startup that develops software for behavioral health providers, launched today with $41 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ease will use the capital to expand the adoption of its software…
Agentic e-commerce startup ZyG gets $58M to help solo inventors compete with the biggest global brands
When it comes to product innovation, global brands have an enormous advantage over smaller companies thanks to their massive scale, extensive resources, marketing expertise and robust supply chains, so the little guy can barely compete. But that…
Stop Wasting Engineering Cycles on Landing Pages: The Framer Playbook for Startups
If you are a developer or a founder, you know the exact feeling: You've just finished the core MVP of your product. The backend is humming, the database is optimized, and the auth flow is flawless. Now, you have to build the marketing site.
Stripe wants to turn your AI costs into a profit center
Stripe on Monday released a preview of a new feature that could help AI startups (and other companies) solve the problem of passing through the underlying costs of AI model usage to their customers. Stripe's feature, however, goes even further than…
Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue
The AI coding assistant Cursor has surpassed $2 billion in annualized revenue, a metric calculated by multiplying the latest month's revenue by 12, according to a Bloomberg source. This individual says the four-year-old startup saw its revenue run…
India's Pronto formalizes house help as its valuation jumps 8x in under a year
Bengaluru-based Pronto is helping to bring India's largely informal domestic help market online. As daily bookings climb and its city footprint expands, investors are opening their wallets. The startup said Tuesday that it raised a $25 million…
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