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No Summer Doldrums For Active Startup Investors In July
Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names leading the tallies for deal count and size. Among lead investors, Khosla Ventures topped the ranks last month, while Y Combinator was by far the busiest backer by deal count.
Digital Sovereignty: What Rolex And Patagonia Can Teach Europe About Protecting Its Startups
Steward ownership flips the standard corporate logic. Instead of treating a company primarily as a financial asset to be bought, sold and optimized for exit, it separates control from pure economic extraction. Voting rights are held by stewards…
AMD to Buy AI Chip Startup Taalas
AMD has reached a deal to buy the AI chip startup Taalas at undisclosed terms. AMD said that the deal would strengthen its long-term AI ambitions by adding a differentiated inference technology and engineering expertise. Founded in 2023 and based…
Defense Startup: AI Turns 2 Months Of Engineering Into 20 Minutes
Atlas Motion makes motors and actuators for drones and robots, and just raised $11.5 million. Drone and robot motor startup Atlas Motion is emerging from stealth today with $11.5 million in funding and an astonishing claim: it can design new…
This Startup Will Pay You $50 to Let AI Read Your Mind
In 1908, a Columbia University psychiatry professor named Frederick Peterson claimed to have built a “psychometer”—a contraption which he said could read people's thoughts using, among other components, a mirror and a lamp.
How Startups Scale Smarter With Data-Driven Decision Making
Data can help startups move beyond founder instinct and build a more disciplined path to growth. The key is knowing what to measure, how to turn insights into action and when to scale decisions through systems rather than guesswork. The startups…
AI Talent Wars: Why Startups Now Pay Like Big Tech
The traditional startup employment bargain was straightforward: accept a salary below what an established technology company might offer, receive equity and hope that years of risk eventually produce a lucrative exit. The rise of AI is disrupting…
Emissions-tracking startups see M&A opportunities
The move by US financial regulators to ditch corporate emissions reporting requirements may be a setback for climate action, but one emissions-tracking CEO sees it as a growth opportunity. Tokyo-based ASUENE, which provides software for companies…
AMD buys chip startup that hardwires AI models into its silicon
Advanced Micro Devices agreed to acquire Taalas, a startup that makes chips for inference. Taalas' accelerators are customized, or hard-wired for a single AI model. The deal comes just over seven months after Nvidia bought assets from startup Groq…
A startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms raised $30.5 million
Zach Oldham, cofounder of the adtech startup Gravity, thinks AI ads will eventually become the world's largest advertising channel. His company just secured fresh funds to pursue the opportunity he sees in both ads designed to appeal to humans on…
This YC startup raised $5 million for a personal assistant to help you stay on top of your text messages
It's hard to be a good texter these days. Between the default texting services and inboxes galore — WhatsApp, Instagram, email, you name it — messages are bound to fall through the cracks. Pally, a Y-Combinator startup that launched…
Wool is a Tale as Old as Time. This Startup Wants To Tell It.
When the founder behind a proposed digital passport for wool attended India's largest global textile trade called Bharat Tex, she received so many queries she was almost overwhelmed. “My inbox is inundated with manufacturers, wool buyers…
Environmental groups challenge FCC approval of startup's plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space
Four environmental organizations filed a petition Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse approval of a startup's plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space to Earth, arguing the agency ignored the project's potential…
Conflict of interest in startup funding panel 'unavoidable', says Technology Development Board secretary
Conflict of interest in selecting expert panels to disburse public funds for technology startups is “unavoidable” and a matter “to be managed,” Technology Development Board (TDB) secretary Rajesh Pathak said on Friday.
German payment startup is close to launching US bank
Key insight: Augustus now has the next U.S. regulatory approval it needs to open its AI-powered international clearing bank. Expert quote: 'Innovation-friendly supervision doesn't mean risk-free supervision.' —Theodora Lau of Unconventional…
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