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Desperate AI Startup Now Cleaning Messy Apartments for Free
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The adage, “data is the new currency,” has taken on a whole new meaning in a society obsessed with AI. The prevailing thinking is that with more data, AI models will…
Menopause Startup Funding: Why Alloy Raised Less Than A Rival
Anne Fulenwider and Monica Molenaar, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, Alloy Women's Health. Alloy Women's Health, a telehealth platform connecting women to board-certified, menopause-trained physicians for perimenopause and menopause care. Anne Fulenwider…
Delivery robot startup Robot.com is betting its next act on workplace humanoids
Delivery robot startup Robot.com is expanding into workplace humanoids, targeting industrial, food services, and logistics customers with a new robot designed to complete repetitive tasks. The San Francisco-based startup, formerly known as Kiwibot…
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp's next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who is stepping down after nearly seven years at the helm to take on a new product-building role at the…
Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026
Robotics startup funding hit a record high in 2025, per Crunchbase data. And that trend is continuing in 2026 so far, with funding to the sector already eclipsing 2025's totals. Globally, robotics startups have so far raised $18.8 billion in 2026…
This London Fund Returned 1000x From Its Revolut Bet. Now It's Backing Europe's Next Startups.
Midas List investor Reshma Sohoni's Seedcamp has backed some of Europe's best startups. Now, it's back with a new fund to back a new tranche of AI, robotics, and deeptech founders. When Reshma Sohoni cofounded London-based seed fund Seedcamp back…
Chinese Backing Helps African Startup Spiro Near Unicorn Status
Chinese investor NewTrails Capital will invest $55 million into African electric mobility startup Spiro, helping boost the company's valuation. The investment will lift the startup's valuation to nearly $1 billion, bringing the latest funding round…
Can reflecting the Sun buy time for net zero? A startup has raised $US75m to try
Private firms are making plans to cool the planet by releasing reflective particles high into the atmosphere, an idea known as solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM). With a war chest of private capital estimated at more than…
How Yann LeCun's Startup Challenges the Logic Behind Today's A.I. Race
Meta 's former chief A.I. scientist, Yann LeCun, helped lay the groundwork for the modern A.I. boom long before chatbots became an industry obsession. Now, after leaving Meta in late 2025, he is building a multibillion-dollar startup under the…
European Investor Seedcamp Closes On $320M Across Two Funds To Back Seed Startups And Reaches $1B AUM
Seedcamp, one of Europe's earliest seed investors, has closed on its 7th fund of $220 million and a select fund 2 of $100 million to invest in winners from the core fund. Since its launch almost two decades ago in 2007, the firm — which had…
SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion
SpaceX has signed a major computing power deal with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at Elon Musk's Colossus 2 data center. The open-source AI startup will pay Musk's company $150 million per month starting July 1, 2026, with payments…
University of Seoul-supported startup to develop AI-based road safety management model
Mobilintec, a mobility and transportation data startup, plans to develop and demonstrate an agentic artificial intelligence (AI)-based traffic collision prediction and response system for local roads as part of a government-led project to develop…
PM nominee apologizes for information leak from 'Startup for All' website
Prime Minister nominee Han Seong-sook apologized Monday over a recent information leak from the government's website for an audition-style startup incubation program. An artificial intelligence solution firm serving as a project partner was found…
Sweet Stash, a proudly Nebraska-raised candy startup, brings a revolution to the sweets industry
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Fifteen African AI Startups Graduate From Google for Startups Accelerator, 60% Already Profitable
Fifteen AI-focused startups from eight African countries have completed the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme, with 60% of the cohort already profitable and generating average monthly revenue of $60,000, organizers said on Thursday.
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