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Korea eyes creation of 100 defense-focused startups by 2030
Korea will provide support to nurture 100 defense-focused startups by 2030 in an effort to strengthen the defense industry's growth potential and better adopt cutting-edge technologies, government officials said Monday. As part of the blueprint to…
Exclusive | The Fundraising Tactic AI Startups Are Using to Juice Valuations
AI startup Serval closed a private deal with venture-capital giant Sequoia in December that valued it at less than $400 million. Days later, Serval announced a new milestone from another funding round. This time, its valuation had topped $1…
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NXP Opens Season 6 Challenge To Back Deep-Tech Startups
India's deep-tech ecosystem is entering a more practical phase, where access to infrastructure matters as much as ideas. NXP India has opened applications for Season 6 of its Tech Startup Challenge, expanding its effort to support startups working…
Google Exec Warns AI Wrapper Startups Could Be in Trouble
Darren Mowry, who heads Google's global startup organization, told TechCrunch in an interview published Saturday (Feb. 21) that companies built around LLM wrappers and AI aggregators have their “check engine light” on. Wrappers, the…
Delhi sneaker startup hires a CS graduate. Within a week, he uses 100% discount codes to scam Rs 2 lakh
3 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google A Delhi-based sneaker start-up allegedly suffered a loss of Rs 2 lakh after an employee, within his first week, created multiple full-discount coupons that were allegedly used to order…
5 startups chosen for next cohort in downtown Norfolk accelerator
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 757 Accelerate, a mentor-driven startup acceleration program, announced five companies selected for its next cohort. The nine-week program, which launched on Monday, aims to move businesses from the…
Law Firms Have a Referral Problem. This Arkansas Startup May Have Solved It
A startup out of Little Rock has attracted more than 800 clients for its software that streamlines the lucrative but often unorganized process of legal referrals between law firms. Typically when firms refer cases to other attorneys, they receive a…
China's brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead
While Elon Musk's Neuralink likes to say it's “ pioneering ” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China's BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to commercialize both implantable…
Pension Fund Blow-Up Raises Scrutiny of €300 Billion Industry
Berlin dentists entrusted €2.2 billion ($2.6 billion) in retirement savings to a group of colleagues with more experience filling cavities than managing money. Now half of it is gone. Headed by a committee of half a dozen dentists and oral…
Wispr Flow launches an Android app for AI-powered dictation
AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Flow has launched its Android app today. The company released its app for Mac and Windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025. On iOS, users could use Wispr Flow through a dedicated keyboard. On Android, the…
Deel's global start-up competition offers $15m. in funding
The barriers to launching a company have never been lower. Cloud infrastructure is cheaper, development cycles are faster, and technical expertise, once limited to a select few, is now accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Yet, this…
Quantonation's double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers
Quantum computing will not be replacing supercomputers in 2026, let alone reaching industrial scale. And yet, investor appetite for companies pursuing the elusive quantum advantage hasn't dwindled — it has increased. Quantonation Ventures, a…
Regulations tighten after Coupang data breach
Feb. 22 (Asia Today) -- Regulatory scrutiny of South Korea's online platform industry is intensifying following a personal data breach at Coupang, raising concerns that expanding oversight could dampen innovation among startups. As the government…
China Is Cracking Down On 'Stock Market Influencers' As AI Surge Overheats Market
Chinese regulators are tightening oversight of aggressive influencer promotions for investment products, worried that an AI-driven tech surge — encouraged by state policy — is overheating the market, according to Nikkei. In late…
I've been a product manager at one of China's biggest tech firms. Here's how Chinese AI products are built differently.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yilin Zhang, an AI product manager at AI startup Kuse who worked at Meituan for more than three years. It has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified his employment and…
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