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Most People Trust AI Less Than Humans. Startups Are Betting On That
Top down view of business woman explain and present financial chart. Diverse group discuss and listen presentation about stock market statistic at meeting table with investment graph. Convocation. The Federal Trade Commission has spent the past…
AI Startup Cognition in New Funding Talks at $40 Billion Value
Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that may boost the coding startup's valuation by more than 50% to at least $40 billion, people familiar with the matter said. Prospective investors are circling the company…
Healthcare, EV Startups Steer Africa Toward Record Funding Year
African-focused startups are on track for a record fundraising year after investments surged in the first six months, according to a new report, signaling renewed investor appetite for the continent's technology companies. The startups raised $3.3…
Accel Raises $3.5 Billion to Invest in Emerging Global AI Startups
Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments across the world. The firm, which has backed artificial intelligence companies…
Silicon Valley startups are about to hand corporate credit cards to AI agents
The typical early-stage startup team used to comprise a pair of founders and a handful of software engineers. Now that founding team is just as likely to include AI agents as it is human employees—and the companies that serve startups are…
Kevin Weil has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup
Kevin Weil, the former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for a new AI science startup, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. Weil is aiming to raise $150 million in the round…
A pain point in my Wall Street schedule inspired me to leave Citadel to found a laundry startup
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Cabral Menezes, 27, who founded the brand WashWise, a 'dry shampoo for clothes' that refreshes items between washes. WashWise raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding, as it announced on…
Japanese Self-Driving Startup Plans U.S. Office, Targets $10 Billion IPO Valuation
Japanese autonomous-driving startup Turing is looking to enter the U.S. market, with a potential listing there within the next five years that would value the company at about $10 billion, its top executive said. The Tokyo-based company plans to…
The VC Firm That Helped Build Latin America's Startup Scene Is Crossing Into Silicon Valley
Monashees, one of Latin America's oldest and most influential VC firms, believes the next phase of the region's startup ecosystem requires a permanent Silicon Valley presence. The firm, which was founded more than two decades ago in São…
Researchers Create Fake Startup to Dupe North Koreans Looking for Remote Gigs
As North Koreans continue to infiltrate companies by securing remote IT jobs, a pair of cybersecurity researchers hit back by creating a fake startup to trap them and monitor their activities. NorthScan's Heiner García and Mauro Eldritch…
Fast and fearless: Baltic defence startups innovate to counter Russian threat
One of the lessons of the war in Ukraine is that military technology evolves very rapidly, with the world's first-ever drone war making it harder for conventional armies to make gains on the battlefield. But they may also herald a new dystopian…
Startup B3IQ has found a new AI niche: Supplying rent-to-own machines to privacy-conscious university researchers
Pavel Bushuyeu is a PhD student in the computer science department at the University of Hawaii, where he studies how skin cancer affects people of Pacific Island descent. One of a growing number of academics using AI to accelerate their research…
Israeli AI testing startup makes CNBC headlines
Israeli startup Irregular has recently found itself at the center of a global debate about the dangers of artificial intelligence models. An article published in CNBC linked the company to three cases reported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. In each…
Personalized AI startup River AI raises $1.1B from consortium backed by Nvidia, AMD
River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised $1.1 billion in early-stage funding. The company stated in today's announcement that it received the capital over two rounds, a seed…
How Cyprus startups can win attention from global media
Cyprus' startup and investment scene is expanding rapidly, but founders still face the challenge of making their businesses visible beyond the island, according to public relations and communications strategist Evgenia Zaslavskaya. Zaslavskaya, the…
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