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The questions Leonis Capital investors ask to see if a startup's tech actually holds up
If you hadn't heard, there's an AI race sweeping through Silicon Valley. While stalwarts like Google, Meta, and Microsoft, and newcomers like OpenAI and Anthropic, are grabbing the headlines as they unveil model after model, there are plenty of…
How This Startup Is Solving The 1% Trust Problem Facing CFOs
Maximor believes that they've bridged the trust gap with CFOs. They're stereotyped as the ultimate risk-averse gatekeepers: pocket-protector-wearing bean counters who say 'no' to innovation. Yet when it comes to AI adoption, chief financial…
Mitsubishi Electric Backs Startup to Push Into AI Factory Robots
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is backing construction-tech startup Akari Inc., the latest in a sector-wide quest for knowhow to fully automate factories and train robots to react to different situations. Mitsubishi Electric, a maker of industrial…
India's Top 20 Startups Corner 2025 Funding
The average fundraise for the top 20 startups stood at $195 million in CY25. India's top 20 startups by valuation accounted for over half of the combined valuation of $69.3 billion of the top 100 startups in calendar year 2025 (CY25), according to…
Amazon execs say layoffs are part of turning the company into the 'world's largest startup
Internal memos from Amazon executives explained the company's decision to lay off 16,000 corporate workers as necessary to become the 'world's largest startup,' according to the messages viewed by Business Insider. 'Our ambition is to be the…
AI Customer Support Startup Decagon Valued at $4.5 Billion
Decagon AI Inc., a customer support startup, has raised $250 million in a new round of funding that triples its valuation to $4.5 billion, the latest sign of feverish investor demand for artificial intelligence services. The financing, which is set…
Self-Driving Tech Startup Waabi Raises $1B for Expansion - TT
[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Waabi Innovation Inc., a Canadian startup that develops self-driving technology for trucks, has secured $1 billion in funding for its commercial expansion, including entering the…
AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman and other big names
Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect, investigate and take down identity fraud, has raised a $40 million Series B round of funding. While that might not sound like a lot given the huge sums some AI…
Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama
Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, largely OpenAI and Anthropic. But tiny 30-person…
Budget 2026: AI and Deep-Tech Startups Seek Policy Push for Market Adoption and Global Scale
With artificial intelligence and deep-tech emerging as key pillars of India's innovation economy, startups and technology leaders are looking to the Union Budget 2026 for a clear, long-term roadmap that strengthens domestic capabilities while…
San Rafael resident pitches startup on 'Shark Tank'
Mitch Braff has spent much of his life telling stories, from his young teenage years in Marin shooting photos for the Redwood High School newspaper to his career as a digital media producer and award-winning filmmaker. This month, he got to tell…
Ex-Palantir engineer raises $40 million for cyber startup Outtake, with backing from Microsoft CEO Nadella
Outtake, a cyber startup that works with OpenAI, AppLovin and Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, said it raised a fresh $40 million. Founded by former Palantir engineer Alex Dhillon, Outtake uses autonomous artificial intelligence agents to help…
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Tata's Dholera Fab to Open Domestic Tape-Outs for Chip Startups
India's semiconductor ambition is beginning to take a more practical shape for startups, one prototype at a time. Tata Electronics' upcoming semiconductor fabrication plant in Dholera is expected to allow Indian chip startups to carry out domestic…
Google Tests New Chrome Startup Option That May Eat More RAM
Google Chrome soon may eat more RAM as the tech giant is reportedly testing a memory-hungry startup option. The new feature is spotted on the Canary build of Chrome for Windows. Once enabled, the option opens the browser when the PC turns on. While…
AI startup Upstage to acquire Daum operator AXZ for Korean training data
The deal centers on Upstage's plan to turn Daum's long-running blogs and online communities into large-scale Korean-language training data for its AI models Korean AI startup Upstage has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire AXZ, the operator…
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