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Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Defense Department engineers in 2017 — five years before ChatGPT's public launch…
The Methodology Behind The Next Billion-Dollar Startups
Since 2015, Forbes has partnered with TrueBridge Capital to identify the fast-growing private companies most likely to become tomorrow's category-defining businesses. The Next Billion-Dollar Startups list spotlights the most promising companies on…
Three Signals That Define This Year's Next Billion-Dollar Startups
Every year, thousands of venture-backed startups raise millions in capital, generate headlines, and promise to reshape entire industries. Only a small fraction ultimately become enduring, category-defining businesses. The 2026 Forbes Next…
Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2026 List
For a dozen years, Forbes has partnered with TrueBridge Capital Partners to highlight the companies that are likely to become unicorns in the near future. To qualify, startups must be venture-backed, based in the U.S. and worth less than $1…
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents securely pull in outside data and tools — has filed a lawsuit against HR software startup Rippling, according to the…
The Long-Term Success Of 10 Next Billion-Dollar Startups Alums
When Forbes launched the Next Billion-Dollar Startups List more than a decade ago, the premise was simple: identify promising young venture backed companies before they became famous unicorns. Each year, the most promising companies are nominated…
This Startup Will Pay You To Provide Home Care For Your Loved Ones
O n Jesse Vega's first date with Deaunda Lira, a romantic sushi dinner in Colorado Springs three years ago, he was upfront: He has epilepsy and suffers severe seizures. “It could be scary,” Jesse, 49, recalls telling her. Deaunda, 52…
Google and KDDI are ready to back Japanese startups.
Joint funding: Equity investments from both the AI Futures Fund and KDDI Open Innovation Fund. The latest AI models: Early access to some of Google's most advanced AI tools — including Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — plus…
The Market Is Hostage To Two Startups (NASDAQ:SMH)
Deep Value Investing 14.19K Followers I still think the AI bears are way too early, but I have lost some conviction as the AI trade has become dangerously dependent on OpenAI and Anthropic. Strip out Alphabet (along with its $99B paper gain), and…
This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing
A startup that has developed software to track whether AI coding tools are actually making developers more productive has raised $13.5 million. San Francisco-based Weave builds tools that measure the work of human engineers and AI coding tools…
The future of Wall Street is here as startups and brokers build AI agents to trade 24/7
Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans. 'Effectively everybody has their own family office that is working 24/7 for them while…
Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng steps down, citing startup-related stress and illness
A cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab said she's stepping down because of stress and illness. Lilian Weng said in a post on X that Tuesday would be her last day at Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup she cofounded with OpenAI's former chief…
Nuclear energy startup funding is heating up
Venture funding for nuclear energy startups — both fusion and advanced fission — is surging. By the numbers: Global investment is over $4.5 billion for 81 companies so far this year, according to PitchBook, putting 2026 on pace to…
No. 1 on the Fortune Global 500: Amazon's Jeff Bezos on how his garage startup became the largest company in the world by revenue
Jeff Bezos won't pretend he didn't see this day coming. Sure, when he was sitting in his Bellevue, Wash., garage in 1995, at a makeshift desk made from a wooden door slab, he probably wasn't imagining that his nascent online bookshop would grow…
OT Security Startup Frenos Raises $1.52 Million
AI-native OT security startup Frenos today announced raising $1.52 million in a seed funding round extension that brings the total raised by the company to $6.4 million. The new investment round was led by Momenta and Exposition Ventures, with…
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