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Glīd won Startup Battlefield 2025 by building solutions to make logistis simpler, safer, and smarter
Build Mode is back with a holiday bonus episode. This week, Startup Battlefield editor Isabelle Johannessen is joined by the winner of this year's competition, Kevin Damoa, the CEO and founder of Glīd, a logistics infrastructure company that…
Aerospace and defense startups have raised over $19 billion this year. Here are the top deals of 2025.
Defense and aerospace startups have already raised more than $19 billion in 2025, according to data firm PitchBook. This comes as the Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calls for a total overhaul of the military's acquisition system to…
'We Do Fail … a Lot': Defense Startup Anduril Hits Setbacks With Weapons Tech
The Navy was attempting to launch and recover more than 30 drone boats from a combat ship off the coast of California in May when more than a dozen of the uncrewed vessels failed to carry out their missions. The boats had rejected their inputs and…
Narendra Modi Opens Skyroot Infinity CModi inaugurates space startup, unveils orbital rocket Vikram-1ampus, Promotes Space Innovation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually inaugurated Indian space startup Skyroot's Infinity Campus, in Hyderabad, and highlighted the government's 'historic' space reforms. He also unveiled the company's first orbital rocket, Vikram-I…
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4 AI Startups Solving India's Most Complex Healthcare Challenges
India's AI healthcare market is accelerating toward a $1.6 billion valuation by 2026, growing at a staggering 40.6% CAGR. But beyond headline numbers, the real transformation is happening on the ground, where a handful of startups are tackling…
StartupTN launches State's first village startup community in Coimbatore district
StartupTN, the nodal agency for startups and innovation under the MSME Department, has launched the State's first village startup community at Pillaiappampalayam in Annur Block, Coimbatore district, under its flagship ‘Gramam Thorum…
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Dream Sports Launches HorizonOS: Open-Source Tech Engine for Indian Startups
Dream Sports has announced the launch of HorizonOS, an open-source initiative aimed at providing India's developer community with access to its proven, scalable tech platform. HorizonOS will empower startups and MSMEs across sectors such as…
ServiceNow could reportedly acquire cybersecurity startup Veza for $1B+
ServiceNow Inc. is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Veza Inc., a startup with an identity management platform of the same name. The Information late Wednesday cited sources as saying that the deal could be worth more than $1 billion. That's…
Theia Ventures leads pre-seed round in Bio-AI startup Lemnisca to scale intelligent biomanufacturing systems
This fund will support Lemnisca's Bengaluru lab, AI platform development, and early pilots to scale sustainable bioproduction. The investment reinforces Theia's commitment to backing transformative technologies that enable sustainable industrial…
Anduril's autonomous weapons stumble in tests and combat, WSJ reports
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has faced numerous setbacks during testing of its autonomous weapons systems, according to new reporting by the WSJ. The problems cited include more than a dozen drone boats that failed during a Navy exercise…
Funding for San Diego startups tumbles to smallest quarterly investment total in 8 years
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... San Diego County startups raised only $590 million in the third quarter, a 60% drop compared to a year ago and the smallest quarterly investment total in eight years. The number of deals told a similar…
Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Gains Traction In Africa, Raising Concerns Over Data Privacy And Dependence
Chinese startup DeepSeek caused turbulence in the global AI market earlier this year with its claim that its large language model, R1, was developed at a fraction of the cost of U.S. competitors. The company said it trained the open-source model…
Philippines-based payments and core banking startup Higala raises $4 million seed round
Higala, the secure and inclusive banking infrastructure company, is poised to lead the next phase of the Philippines' payments revolution after completing its US$ 4mn seed funding round and establishing partnerships with some of the country's…
Chinese startup founded by Google engineer claims to have developed its own TPU - reportedly 1.5 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU from 2020, 42% more efficient
Chinese startup Zhonghao Xinying is offering a home-grown General Purpose Tensor Processing Unit (GPTPU) as an alternative to international AI training and inferencing hardware, like Nvidia's graphics cards, and Google 's TPUs, as reported by the…
The future will be explained to you in Palo Alto
On Wednesday evening at PlayGround Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don't understand yet will explain what's coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025, and truly, the lineup is ridiculous. The series…
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