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Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn't disclose terms of the deal. However, The…
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NewsReach wins Kaleido Award 2026 for Best Startup Campaign for Crafting Bharat Season 2, powered by AWS Startups
NewsReach, India's integrated PR and storytelling platform, has won the Best Startup Campaign award at the ET Kaleido Awards 2026 for Crafting Bharat Season 2, produced in partnership with AWS Startups. The recognition marks a significant moment…
Anthropic Sends Jolt Through the Market for Buying Shares in the Hottest Pre-IPO Startups
In the moments after Anthropic expanded a ban on popular ways to buy its shares, investor chatrooms around the world lit up. “Are we screwed?” one person wrote in a WhatsApp chat for family offices with several hundred members.
Japanese Alzheimer's Startup Sound Wave Raises About $17 Million
Japanese medical startup Sound Wave Innovation, which aims to cure Alzheimer's disease with ultrasound therapy, has raised about $17 million from investors, including Singapore-based venture capital firm iGlobe Partners. Sound Wave said Monday it…
Sound Wave, an Alzheimer's-Therapy Startup, Raises $17 Million
Sound Wave said Monday it raised 2.65 billion yen, equivalent to $16.7 million, to fund a clinical trial that is due to be completed by year-end. Besides iGlobe, other investors in the financing round included existing backers such as Tokyo-based…
Sector Snapshot: Quantum Computing Startup Investment Slows In 2026 While Public Markets Hold Strong
These are pretty good times to be a public quantum computing company. The leading pure-play names are collectively valued at over $36 billion, bolstered in recent quarters by investor enthusiasm around next-generation computing. On the startup…
Korean sleep-tech startup advances to global finals of The Pitch tournament
In a world where stress and screen time have thoroughly disrupted human sleep cycles, venture capitalists are looking for a tech-driven fix. Now, a Korean startup is winning over major tech investors by promising to optimize a good night's rest.
The AI boom is pulling Europe's hottest startups to the U.S.-whether they planned to move or not
Carl Fritjofsson, who has run Stockholm, Sweden-based Creandum's San Francisco office since 2016, says the timeline for European founders to cross the pond is compressing at a pace he's never seen. “There is more demand in the U.S. today…
Startup making reusable emergency housing wins MIT $100K competition
A startup making emergency housing cheaper and faster to deploy won this year's MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition on May 12. Uplift Microhome is building reusable, modular housing units to provide housing on demand to people affected by…
Space Meetings Veneto 2026: Nine Indian space startups sign multiple strategic collaborations in Italy
Nine Indian space-tech companies which were part of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) led delegation have signed multiple partnerships and collaboration at the recently held Space Meetings Veneto 2026 at…
I Built Startup Graveyard to Study Why Startups Fail
I recently soft-launched a side project called Startup Graveyard. The idea is simple: a place to browse failed startups, learn what went wrong, and pull lessons from their mistakes. I have always been interested in startups, software, and the idea…
Multiplayer AI startup Dust raises $40M to help enterprises move beyond isolated AI assistants
Dust, an agentic artificial intelligence startup that's trying to push enterprise workers away from isolated chatbots into a more collaborative, multiplayer ecosystem, said today it has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. Today's…
Barclays names Fractile and Isomorphic Labs among UK's top AI startups
Barclays has named AI chip startup Fractile and Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs among Britain's top AI companies as investors race to back the next generation of UK tech champions. The banking giant's Eagle Labs division unveiled its new AI…
How Critical Industries Can Bridge The AI-Talent Gap
Steve Smith, President of National Grid Partners and Chief Strategy and Regulation Officer at National Grid. Artificial intelligence is swiftly moving beyond the realm of startups to serve governments and large enterprises. And despite some…
The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2026
Business Insider's Seed 100 spotlights the early-stage investors with the rare knack for finding tomorrow's tech giants before the rest of the market knows they exist. In the AI boom, the definition of 'seed stage' has changed dramatically. Seed…
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