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forbes.com - Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi - Unlock Your AI's Superpowers: The Prompting Secrets Of Top Startups
Unlock Your AI's Superpowers: The Prompting Secrets Of Top Startups
Forbes

Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and a passionate advisor to numerous startups. I've had a front-row seat, guiding countless startups as they harness the immense power of cloud and AI. Every day, I…

forbes.com - Gaurav Sharma - AI Can Potentially Stem Refinery Closures In Europe, Says Startup Boss
AI Can Potentially Stem Refinery Closures In Europe, Says Startup Boss
Forbes

The situation in Europe's refining and petrochemical sector is nothing short of dire. On average one refinery a month has shutdown over the course of 2025, based on data from across the wider European Economic Area and U.K. Many others are staring…

forbes.com - Ilona Limonta-Volkova - Can This Viral Real Estate Startup Succeed Where Redfin And Zillow Failed?
Can This Viral Real Estate Startup Succeed Where Redfin And Zillow Failed?
Forbes

For decades, startups have tried and failed to upend how Americans buy and sell homes. From Zillow Offers to Purplebricks, each effort ran into the same wall: an entrenched ecosystem that defends the 6% commission with surprising durability. A new…

techcrunch.com - Kirsten Korosec - Exclusive: AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI
Exclusive: AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI
TechCrunch

The Venn diagram of engineers that know a little bit about AI, self driving, and mining has a small intersection. Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski wants as many of those people as possible. And an acquisition is helping him achieve that goal. The…

crunchbase.com - Guest Author - 10x In 10 Years: Korea's Startup Ecosystem Comes of Age
10x In 10 Years: Korea's Startup Ecosystem Comes of Age
Crunchbase

Over the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing innovation ecosystems. Just 10 years ago, the country had around 200 scaleups — today, that number has grown tenfold to more than 2,100. This remarkable…

businessinsider.com - Riddhi Kanetkar - This startup just raised $15 million to create custom maps with AI for monitoring wildfire and flood risks
This startup just raised $15 million to create custom maps with AI for monitoring wildfire and flood risks
Business Insider

California-based startup Felt has secured $15 million for its platform that lets customers build custom geospatial maps with generative AI. The startup, launched in 2021, has designed a software tool that turns users' location data points into a…

bloomberg.com - Yassmin Jabri - Middle East Startups Double Fundraising to Defy Broad Slowdown
Middle East Startups Double Fundraising to Defy Broad Slowdown
Bloomberg

Startups in the Middle East nearly doubled their fundraising in the first half of the year, defying a slowdown in venture capital investment in emerging markets brought on by economic uncertainty and investor caution. About $1.35 billion in VC…

semafor.com - Rohan Goswami - Employment woes are coming for startup talent
Employment woes are coming for startup talent
Semafor

As doomsday predictions loom for what AI means for jobs, some AI employees find themselves on a shaky limb. Big tech companies are increasingly paying huge sums to pull away top talent — but avoiding the kind of acquisitions that reward…

entrepreneur.com - Scott Bartnick - Why Skipping This One PR Move Could Stall Your Startup's Growth Before It Even Begins
Why Skipping This One PR Move Could Stall Your Startup's Growth Before It Even Begins
Entrepreneur

Startups often spend months perfecting their product, but forget to tell the world it exists. A classic study in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science found that public relations is nearly three times more effective than advertising when…

fortune.com - Sara Braun - Why the cofounder of Nextdoor came back after five years of investing in startups
Why the cofounder of Nextdoor came back after five years of investing in startups
Fortune

– Home sweet home. They say you can never go home again, but Sarah Leary would disagree. In 2019, the Nextdoor cofounder stepped away from the company she helped build. Five years later, she returned to her old stomping grounds to help usher…

nola.com - Another live startup pitch series started in St. Tammany
Another live startup pitch series started in St. Tammany
NOLA.com

STartUP Northshore has created a series of live pitch competitions called The Launchpad to spotlight early-stage founders from across the Northshore. It builds on the success of NSpire Startup Slam. The new initiative is a minipitch designed to…

axios.com - Ryan Lawler - Fraud startup Heka bags $14M to crush online fraud
Fraud startup Heka bags $14M to crush online fraud
Axios

Heka Global, a startup using real-time behavioral analysis to detect and prevent digital fraud, raised a $14 million Series A, CEO Idan Bar-Dov tells Axios Pro exclusively. Why it matters: Financial firms are seeking smarter, real-time defenses to…

sfgate.com - Stephen Council - Bay Area startup plundered by Google, bought by rival in 'rollercoaster' weekend
Bay Area startup plundered by Google, bought by rival in 'rollercoaster' weekend
SFGATE

Bay Area tech companies are battling to build popular, useful artificial intelligence — and the fight just ripped apart a startup. Windsurf, an AI company based in Mountain View, began last week as a reported $3 billion acquisition target…

thehindu.com - Pti - NEEEV entrepreneurship scheme: Delhi govt introduces startup training in schools
NEEEV entrepreneurship scheme: Delhi govt introduces startup training in schools
The Hindu

Students in Delhi government schools will now be introduced to structured entrepreneurial training as part of a new initiative - New Era of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Vision (NEEEV). The scheme aims to develop innovation, problem-solving and…

thestar.com.my - Krystal Hu - US AI startups see funding surge while more VC funds struggle to raise, data shows
US AI startups see funding surge while more VC funds struggle to raise, data shows
The Star Online

(Reuters) -U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, even as venture capital firms struggled to raise money, a report from PitchBook on Tuesday…

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