Startup Industry News
A collection of Startup latest news, analysis and best practices from top business influencers and the world's most trustworthy sources.
A startup wants to beat Airbus and Boeing with a cargo-focused passenger jetliner
Airbus' CEO recently said the future of flying is a B2-bomber-shaped 'blended-wing body' plane with passengers housed inside the plane's one giant wing for maximum efficiency. Aleksey Matyushev, the CEO of the US aerospace startup Natilus, told…
A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app
Here's something that you've never seen on Big Tech social platforms: the decentralized open social network Bluesky has integrated new technology from a startup called Germ Network in order to bring end-to-end encrypted (E2E) messaging to the…
Digital Savings Startup Vestwell Lands $385M, Doubles Valuation
Vestwell, a digital savings platform, has raised $385 million in a Series E funding round co-led by Blue Owl Capital and Sixth Street Growth. The New York-based startup declined to reveal its new valuation, saying only that it has doubled since it…
Biotech Startup M&A Is Reliably Delivering Some Big Exits
In a world where AI unicorns are securing valuations in the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars, biotech startups can't compete for giant rounds. But while the space may be lower-profile, it's still steadily generating M&A outcomes that look…
A New Startup Is Personalizing Paywalls for Bots and Humans Alike
This story was originally published in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly newsletter that explores the key themes shaping the media industry. You can sign up for it here. Stop me if you have heard this before, but it bears repeating:…
Be skeptical of milestone announcements by young AI startups - LessWrong
Almost one year ago now, a company named XBOW announced that their AI had achieved 'rank one' on the HackerOne leaderboard. HackerOne is a crowdsourced 'bug bounty' platform, where large companies like Anthropic, SalesForce, Uber, and others pay…
Rise Of Europe's 'War Unicorns' As Goldman Maps The Defense-Startup Ecosystem
The ' war unicorn ' startup boom we pointed out the other week isn't just an American story. It's happening across the West, as defense startups built around dual-use technology could become the next hot bubble. Goldman analysts, led by Sam…
Venture capital funding for African startups is 'stabilizing'
African startups raised $3.9 billion across more than 500 deals in 2025, according to a report by the African Private Capital Association. The industry group for venture capital and private equity investors said the year's performance signaled that…
Milestone announcements by young AI applications startups are often extremely misleading - LessWrong
Almost one year ago now, a company named XBOW announced that their AI had achieved 'rank one' on the HackerOne leaderboard. HackerOne is a crowdsourced 'bug bounty' platform, where large companies like Anthropic, SalesForce, Uber, and others pay…
ChatGPT and Gemini struggle with complex Indian languages - but this Bengaluru startup says it can do better
Sarvam AI says its Sarvam Vision model beats Gemini and ChatGPT on key OCR benchmarks The startup focuses on all 22 official Indian languages Its “sovereign AI” approach aims to build technology tailored specifically to India's needs…
EDGX CEO Details the Startup's Push for AI-Enabled Onboard Processing
Europe's space industry is undergoing a renaissance right now. With governments looking to spend more money on space and defense, this investment is starting to reverberate across the supply chain. One company to keep an eye on this area is EDGX, a…
Dallas-based 'de-extinction' startup to open biovault in Dubai
Resurrecting dire wolves is pretty darn metal. Hatching new dodo birds would make the impossible seem possible. Bringing back the woolly mammoth is cool. Why it matters: Dallas-based 'de-extinction' company Colossal Biosciences is banking on the…
OpenAI is paying workers $1.5 million in stock-based compensation on average, the highest of any tech startup in history
OpenAI's reported plans to pursue an IPO later this year could be a massive windfall—not just for investors betting on the AI boom, but for the company's own employees. The ChatGPT maker's average stock-based compensation hit a whopping $1.5…
Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding
Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there's still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user's needs. The company…
A16z Secrets Revealed: How This Huge Investment Fund Finds Promising Startups Even in Rural France!
Historically linked with Silicon Valley, venture capital behemoth Andreessen Horowitz is now extending its influence far beyond the borders of the United States in a quest to identify the next big unicorn companies. From Stockholm to Paris, the…
Receive a Daily briefing on Startup Industry News
Get Started