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businessinsider.com - Taylor Rains - A startup wants to beat Airbus and Boeing with a cargo-focused passenger jetliner
A startup wants to beat Airbus and Boeing with a cargo-focused passenger jetliner
Business Insider

Airbus' CEO recently said the future of flying is a B2-bomber-shaped 'blended-wing body' plane with passengers housed inside the plane's one giant wing for maximum efficiency. Aleksey Matyushev, the CEO of the US aerospace startup Natilus, told…

techcrunch.com - Sarah Perez - A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app
A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app
TechCrunch

Here's something that you've never seen on Big Tech social platforms: the decentralized open social network Bluesky has integrated new technology from a startup called Germ Network in order to bring end-to-end encrypted (E2E) messaging to the…

crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo - Digital Savings Startup Vestwell Lands $385M, Doubles Valuation
Digital Savings Startup Vestwell Lands $385M, Doubles Valuation
Crunchbase

Vestwell, a digital savings platform, has raised $385 million in a Series E funding round co-led by Blue Owl Capital and Sixth Street Growth. The New York-based startup declined to reveal its new valuation, saying only that it has doubled since it…

crunchbase.com - Joanna Glasner - Biotech Startup M&A Is Reliably Delivering Some Big Exits
Biotech Startup M&A Is Reliably Delivering Some Big Exits
Crunchbase

In a world where AI unicorns are securing valuations in the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars, biotech startups can't compete for giant rounds. But while the space may be lower-profile, it's still steadily generating M&A outcomes that look…

adweek.com - Mark Stenberg - A New Startup Is Personalizing Paywalls for Bots and Humans Alike
A New Startup Is Personalizing Paywalls for Bots and Humans Alike
ADWEEK

This story was originally published in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly newsletter that explores the key themes shaping the media industry. You can sign up for it here. Stop me if you have heard this before, but it bears repeating:…

lesswrong.com - Be skeptical of milestone announcements by young AI startups - LessWrong
Be skeptical of milestone announcements by young AI startups - LessWrong
Transformative AI

Almost one year ago now, a company named XBOW announced that their AI had achieved 'rank one' on the HackerOne leaderboard. HackerOne is a crowdsourced 'bug bounty' platform, where large companies like Anthropic, SalesForce, Uber, and others pay…

zerohedge.com - Tyler Durden - Rise Of Europe's 'War Unicorns' As Goldman Maps The Defense-Startup Ecosystem
Rise Of Europe's 'War Unicorns' As Goldman Maps The Defense-Startup Ecosystem
Zero Hedge

The ' war unicorn ' startup boom we pointed out the other week isn't just an American story. It's happening across the West, as defense startups built around dual-use technology could become the next hot bubble. Goldman analysts, led by Sam…

semafor.com - Alexander Onukwue - Venture capital funding for African startups is 'stabilizing'
Venture capital funding for African startups is 'stabilizing'
Semafor

African startups raised $3.9 billion across more than 500 deals in 2025, according to a report by the African Private Capital Association. The industry group for venture capital and private equity investors said the year's performance signaled that…

lesswrong.com - Milestone announcements by young AI applications startups are often extremely misleading - LessWrong
Milestone announcements by young AI applications startups are often extremely misleading - LessWrong
Transformative AI

Almost one year ago now, a company named XBOW announced that their AI had achieved 'rank one' on the HackerOne leaderboard. HackerOne is a crowdsourced 'bug bounty' platform, where large companies like Anthropic, SalesForce, Uber, and others pay…

techradar.com - Eric Hal Schwartz - ChatGPT and Gemini struggle with complex Indian languages - but this Bengaluru startup says it can do better
ChatGPT and Gemini struggle with complex Indian languages - but this Bengaluru startup says it can do better
TechRadar

Sarvam AI says its Sarvam Vision model beats Gemini and ChatGPT on key OCR benchmarks The startup focuses on all 22 official Indian languages Its “sovereign AI” approach aims to build technology tailored specifically to India's needs…

satellitetoday.com - Rachel Jewett - EDGX CEO Details the Startup's Push for AI-Enabled Onboard Processing
EDGX CEO Details the Startup's Push for AI-Enabled Onboard Processing
Via Satellite

Europe's space industry is undergoing a renaissance right now. With governments looking to spend more money on space and defense, this investment is starting to reverberate across the supply chain. One company to keep an eye on this area is EDGX, a…

axios.com - Tasha Tsiaperas - Dallas-based 'de-extinction' startup to open biovault in Dubai
Dallas-based 'de-extinction' startup to open biovault in Dubai
Axios

Resurrecting dire wolves is pretty darn metal. Hatching new dodo birds would make the impossible seem possible. Bringing back the woolly mammoth is cool. Why it matters: Dallas-based 'de-extinction' company Colossal Biosciences is banking on the…

fortune.com - Preston Fore - OpenAI is paying workers $1.5 million in stock-based compensation on average, the highest of any tech startup in history
OpenAI is paying workers $1.5 million in stock-based compensation on average, the highest of any tech startup in history
Fortune

OpenAI's reported plans to pursue an IPO later this year could be a massive windfall—not just for investors betting on the AI boom, but for the company's own employees. The ChatGPT maker's average stock-based compensation hit a whopping $1.5…

siliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley - Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding
Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding
SiliconANGLE

Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there's still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user's needs. The company…

glassalmanac.com - Michael Reed - A16z Secrets Revealed: How This Huge Investment Fund Finds Promising Startups Even in Rural France!
A16z Secrets Revealed: How This Huge Investment Fund Finds Promising Startups Even in Rural France!
Glass Almanac

Historically linked with Silicon Valley, venture capital behemoth Andreessen Horowitz is now extending its influence far beyond the borders of the United States in a quest to identify the next big unicorn companies. From Stockholm to Paris, the…

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