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How Many Real Breakthroughs Did Your Startup Have Last Year?
Roland Siebelink scaled three startups from 10-1000 FTE in three years each, then reverse-engineered the map. Founder, Midstage Accelerator. “How many real breakthroughs did your startup have last year?” I put this question to…
Cyber and AI at the top: These are Israel's leading startups
LinkedIn, the world's largest business-social network, which has about 1.3 billion users and is owned by Microsoft, published on Wednesday the list of the top and most sought-after startup companies in Israel – which was entirely filled with…
Exclusive: Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5M For Her Next Act, AI Marketing Startup Marklo
Jessica Herrin was pregnant with her first child and working at Dell when she began testing jewelry trunk shows in Austin on nights and weekends. The venture became Stella & Dot, a business that sold more than $2 billion in products through a…
How I Learned That Some Startup Problems Are Too Big For A Minimum Viable Product
A first venture usually follows a well-worn playbook: a gap in the market, obsessive refinement of concept and pitch, eventual conviction that the solution is as bulletproof as it is revolutionary. Then, the dreaded phase of product-market fit.
Y Combinator 'Customer Surveillance' Startup Says 'Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move'
The secret to ensuring that your company doesn't lose customers? Constant, AI agent-powered corporate surveillance. That's according to Josh Earle and Leo Paz, a pair of founders behind a vibe-coded Silicon Valley startup called Outlit. The venture…
Exclusive: Rivian's startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field
Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's latest project: Mind Robotics. Field has been hired as…
Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy
Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced high-profile lawsuits over the deaths of minors, has declared bankruptcy. Character.AI announced last night that it had entered a “voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process” and is…
U.S. Defense Startups Flock to Taiwan to Build China-Free Drones
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan —Ever since former U.S. Navy flight officer Paul Lwin founded defense startup HavocAI in Rhode Island in 2024, he has seen Taiwan as an island of opportunity. Lwin designs software to manage autonomous maritime…
IIMB and IIT Kanpur join hands to accelerate Deep-Tech startups
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) and NSRCEL, the flagship business incubator of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate deep-tech start-ups and…
Startup TN Chairman inaugurates incubation centre at Thiagarajar College in Madurai
An incubation centre was inaugurated at Thiagarajar College here by Chairman of TN Startup Singai G. Ramachandran on Wednesday. Mr. Ramachandran, during his address, narrated his story amidst hundreds of hurdles that he had faced before becoming a…
How NYC twins built a telehealth platform after a $500K startup setback
Twin brothers Zachary and Elias Dorf thought they'd found the perfect business opportunity. Instead, they spent nearly $500,000 and the better part of a year building an online telehealth business focused on eyelash treatments that didn't take off.
Booking Holdings Plans to Fund New AI Startup Vayo With $100 Million
Vayo, Booking Holdings' second AI-native startup, launched Wednesday in private beta with a waitlist at vayo.com. It is built to become the place where travelers manage their entire trip, including reservations made outside Booking's own brands.
How Bengaluru startup Aaahara is taking botanical foods global
Bengaluru based food startup Infini Agrotek LLP, which sells its products under the brand name Aaahara is trying to create a category of botanicals infused ready to eat food products, evenwhile expanding its product portfolio that includes…
Offensive security startup CodeWall launches with $4M for AI agents that attack enterprises - SiliconANGLE
London-based offensive security startup CodeWall Ltd. officially launched today with $4 million in new funding to give enterprises such as banks autonomous artificial intelligence agents that attack them the way an outside hacker would. CodeWall…
Workday Launches AI Agent Deluge, Acquires Agentic Identity Startup
At its Workday Rising annual event in Las Vegas this week, the cloud application giant unleashed a wave of new AI agent capabilities that automate routine tasks and provide a new front-end user experience for Workday HR, payroll and finance…
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