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Startup Tech Talent In The Age Of AI Coding
What has truly changed in hiring engineers? Which traditional hiring signals are now misleading, and how should founders rethink technical interviews in the age of AI-assisted development? The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has unsettled one of…
Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman
Michael Stiefel: Welcome to the Architect's Podcast, where we discuss what it means to be an architect and how architects actually do their job. Today's guest is David Gudeman, who is the co-founder and CTO of VelocityAI, a product that gives every…
Savvy signs MOU with Neom to help games startups move 'from incubation to acceleration'
Savvy Games Group and Neom have signed a new memorandum of understanding with the intention of making the path for Saudi games startups moving from 'incubation to acceleration' easier. Studios leaving the former's Nine66 Incubator Program will now…
Nvidia and Alphabet VC arms back AI startup Synthesia at $4 billion valuation
British AI startup Synthesia has raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation. The fresh funding nearly doubles the $2.1 billion price tag the company hit when it raised in January 2025. The round comes amid a surge of private investment in…
Why two Gen Z college dropouts are combatting financial nihilism with a credit card startup
Are the kids alright? Covering fintech typically gives me a pretty bleak answer to the age-old question. From prediction markets to crypto to zero-day options, every new financial product targeted at Gen Z seems to fall under the category of…
Power Trading Startup Enechain Raises $32 Million for Expansion
Enechain, a startup in Japan's growing power market, raised 5.05 billion yen ($31.9 million) to expand its business, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company conducted an additional funding round with investors including US-based…
Crypto Startup Entropy To Shut Down, Refund Investors
Written by Brian Quarmby,Contributor Reviewed by Rahul Nambiampurath,Staff Editor Entropy founder and CEO Tux Pacific says that, after four years and multiple pivots, the project was unable to find a scalable business model. Cointelegraph in your…
New Program Links Startups With Northwest Arkansas Health Organizations
A new innovation program out of northwest Arkansas has plans to directly connect startups with local health care organizations in need of technical solutions. HealthCatalyst NWA, led by HTA of Fayetteville and NXTUS Inc. of Wichita, Kansas…
Entropy, a16z-backed decentralized custody startup, is winding down and returning capital to investors
Entropy founder Tux Pacific announced the crypto startup is shutting down after four years, returning remaining capital to investors. The company raised approximately $27 million, including a $25 million seed round led by a16z crypto in 2022.
Pivot Announces Second Edition Of Open Demo Day With Global Call For Startups
Pivot has announced the second edition of its Open Demo Day for January 2026, offering startups a global virtual platform, $100,000 in rewards, and access to investors, partners, and industry support. Pivot, a Web3 venture accelerator, has…
Pope Leo's latest AI warning: 'overly affectionate' chatbots
Even the pope is worried about how we're talking to chatbots. In a written address for Saturday's World Day of Social Communications, Pope Leo XIV warned against personalized chatbots that can replicate friendly or intimate behavior. 'Overly…
Crypto Traders Flee to Prediction Bets After $150 Billion Crash
Not long ago, Nikshep Saravanan was deep in the crypto trenches — trading memecoins, reaching out to venture capitalists, and trying to launch a startup for digital creators. By January, he'd dropped it all. These days, he spends hours on…
Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out
British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago. Unlike some…
Good leaders don't shut down when employees push back-they do this instead
Twenty years ago, as the top digital and innovation executive for Citi's credit card business, I led the team that spent months building what looked like a brilliant partnership. We'd found a startup with a disruptive payments platform—one…
Rainbow Weather raises $5.5M to refine real-time weather forecasting
Warsaw, Poland 26 January 2026 – Rainbow Weather has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to push weather forecasting further into the short-term, high-precision territory it believes the industry still underserves. The Warsaw-based climate…
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