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blog.google - Apply now for the Google for Startups Gemini Startup Forum.
Apply now for the Google for Startups Gemini Startup Forum.
News from Google

Applications are open for our two-day, Bay Area Forum supporting innovative startups that are using AI. Created in partnership with Google DeepMind and Google Cloud, the Gemini Startup Forum connects the founders of seed to Series A startups from…

forbes.com - Joash Lee - Admissions And Business Leaders: Looking For A Startup Mentality
Admissions And Business Leaders: Looking For A Startup Mentality
Forbes

Joash Lee is the Founder and CEO of Sedifly, a global EdTech firm democratizing access to education. Ask a venture capitalist what they look for in a founder, and you'll likely hear some version of: scrappy, fast to iterate, unfazed by rejection…

techcrunch.com - TechCrunch Events - Meet the judges who will crown Australia's next breakout startup
Meet the judges who will crown Australia's next breakout startup
TechCrunch

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney to pitch…

forbes.com - Vidya Plainfield - How Outsourcing Is Rapidly Becoming A New Growth Engine For Startups
How Outsourcing Is Rapidly Becoming A New Growth Engine For Startups
Forbes

Vidya Plainfield is Growth Officer at TechSpeed Inc. ​Outsourcing was once a strategy available only to big multinational corporations that could afford to build partnerships across time zones, language barriers and international borders.

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - Industrial automation startup Atoms raises $1.7B in funding
Industrial automation startup Atoms raises $1.7B in funding
SiliconANGLE

Atoms, a startup led by Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, has closed a $1.7 billion investment. The company disclosed in its Wednesday funding announcement that Andreessen Horowitz led the raise. The venture capital firm was joined…

businessinsider.com - Sydney Bradley - Meet 22 VCs on the hunt for the next breakout startup in social media
Meet 22 VCs on the hunt for the next breakout startup in social media
Business Insider

Investors: Andrew Chen, general partner; Olivia Moore, partner; Justine Moore, partner Andreessen Horowitz backed many of the biggest hits of the mobile era, including Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, and Roblox. It's also backed a slew of social…

marketwatch.com - Genna Contino - These franchises have the lowest startup costs - and none are fast-food restaurants
These franchises have the lowest startup costs - and none are fast-food restaurants
MarketWatch

Entrepreneur David Hack is typically drawn to tech ventures, but he decided a few years ago he wanted to build a brick-and-mortar business his family could get involved in. While researching potential options, he found opportunity in a fast-growing…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B - its third round in 8 weeks
Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B - its third round in 8 weeks
TechCrunch

Insurance tech, data room software, and coffee-shop startup Corgi is reportedly raising yet another round that closely follows its last raise and would double its valuation, sources have told Forbes. The round is said to be a second extension of…

fortune.com - Emma Hinchliffe - Martha Stewart has been waiting decades to build this AI startup
Martha Stewart has been waiting decades to build this AI startup
Fortune

Yesterday's newsletter came your way from a winding drive up to Katonah, New York. I was writing from the backseat, on my way to Martha Stewart's farm, where she'd invited a small group of journalists to preview the latest in her never-ending…

jpost.com - YOSSI HURST - Israeli startup Glow raises $180m for AI endpoint security platform
Israeli startup Glow raises $180m for AI endpoint security platform
The Jerusalem Post

Israeli cybersecurity startup Glow emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, launching an AI-powered platform designed to prevent security threats from reaching corporate devices. Glow focuses on…

axios.com - Zachery Eanes - Meet the Duke startup trying to change up the satellite imaging business
Meet the Duke startup trying to change up the satellite imaging business
Axios

Backed by more than $7 million in seed funding, a Duke University spinout is hoping to launch a new generation of satellite cameras into space in the next few years. Why it matters: Extellis is one of the latest startups to emerge from research at…

afr.com - Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood, Emma Rapaport, Angira Bharadwaj - C-suites pile into ex-Eucalyptus staff's new hangover startup
C-suites pile into ex-Eucalyptus staff's new hangover startup
Australian Financial Review

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

refreshmiami.com - Zané van Greuning - FIU's RRTH Innovation Center opens applications to support resilient infrastructure startups
FIU's RRTH Innovation Center opens applications to support resilient infrastructure startups
Refresh Miami

Hurricanes, flooding, and aging infrastructure are pushing South Florida to find new solutions faster, and Florida International University's Risk and Resilience Tech Hub (RRTH) wants to help get them there. RRTH is a research and innovation…

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - AI chip startup Etched more than doubles valuation to $10.3B in new $300M round
AI chip startup Etched more than doubles valuation to $10.3B in new $300M round
SiliconANGLE

Etched Inc., a startup with a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference, today announced that it has raised $300 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Sequoia. SK Hynix Inc., the world's largest supplier of memory for AI…

siliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley - Real-time speech intelligence startup Cast Insights raises $4.5M to track the world's TV, radio and podcasts
Real-time speech intelligence startup Cast Insights raises $4.5M to track the world's TV, radio and podcasts
SiliconANGLE

Cast Insights, a startup that's building a real-time competitive intelligence layer for ephemeral speech, launched its platform today after closing on $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by Abstract Ventures and saw…

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