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AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
Fal, a San Francisco-based startup that hosts and runs AI video, image, and audio models, has raised $1.3 billion in its latest funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Sound Ventures, and T. Rowe Price. The…
CrowdStrike to shell out nearly $500M for 2 AI security startups as the market for securing agents takes off
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike is buying two AI security companies that expand its products to more broadly monitor, test, and cover AI models and agents, as companies across industries start rolling out AI agents and models wholesale. CrowdStrike…
Top Anthropic product leader Cat Wu, one of the faces of Claude Code, has left the startup
Cat Wu, a top product manager at Anthropic and one of a small group behind the launch of its blockbuster tool Claude Code, left the company on Friday. Wu announced her departure on Tuesday afternoon on X, thanking the Claude Code team and its users…
Yvonne Bajela is bringing $17M in fresh capital to Europe's startup scene
Yvonne Bajela knew it was time to launch her own fund. She spent more than a decade as a VC, most recently at LocalGlobe and Impact X Capital Partners, where she made bets on now-unicorn companies like the fintech Wise, the insurance company…
Taiwan's AI stock boom is making early-stage startups a tougher pitch
Taiwan's AI stock boom is creating more ways for investors to profit from its chip supply chain, making early-stage startups a tougher pitch. Taiwan's benchmark Taiex index is up more than 50% this year, making it the world's best-performing major…
China's Largest Startup Deal Ever Lifts Global Venture Funding To $59B In October
Global venture funding in October totaled $59 billion, a 45% jump from a year earlier, per Crunchbase data, in large part due to a record-setting deal for China's DeepSeek. The company's $15.9 billion funding round marked the largest-ever venture…
My PR startup has copped flack. I still believe good comms shouldn't rely on your bank balance
After my c onversation with Tim Burrowes on Mumbrellacast, Mumbrella ran two responses critical of Drumbeat. One from Azadeh Williams of AZK Media, and one from Sean Sowerby of Sunday Gravy. I'm grateful to both for engaging! Azadeh argued that the…
Why this Kigali startup wants children to explore careers early
Many young people reach university without a clear idea of what they want to become, often making decisions about their education and future careers with limited knowledge of the opportunities available to them. For Kigali-based education…
China and Russia have hypersonic missiles. This $13 billion startup wants the U.S. to catch up
For the last couple of months, when someone asked what I was working on, I'd mention in passing “a hypersonics startup,” and almost always got stopped: Wait, roll that back. The startup is Castelion, based in Torrance, Calif. and…
A Startup Wants to Put 50,000 Mirrors in Space. The Goal: Make Sunlight Available at Night.
With the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, humanity officially entered the satellite era, and in the ensuing decades, the thousands of satellites sent into space have drastically changed life on the ground. These sprawling networks of orbital…
Over 50% of startups in Tamil Nadu are led by women, says StartupTN Chairman
Currently, Tamil Nadu has over 16,000 registered startups, and of these, 50.8% are women-led firms, Singai G. Ramachandran, Chairman of StartupTN, said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Best of Best (BoB) Conference and Awards 2026, he also addressed the…
Meet Cyclon, the startup building an AI agent OS phone for the post-iPhone future
The handling of these tasks by agents will happen in the background, Zinebi said in a post on X on Monday, November 2. One of Cyclon's demo videos demonstrates a user asking the phone to find a contract in Google Drive, share the link with his…
CrowdStrike to acquire cybersecurity startups Fiddler AI, Dreadnode for reported $495M - SiliconANGLE
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today disclosed plans to buy Fiddler AI Inc. and Dreadnode Inc., two startups that specialize in securing artificial intelligence agents. The company announced the deals alongside an update to its Falcon Guardian product.
Generative media inference startup fal raises $1.3B at a $16B valuation - SiliconANGLE
Generative media inference startup fal today announced it has raised $1.3 billion in new funding at a valuation of $16 billion, according to Bloomberg. The company will spend the money on computing power and on hiring beyond its current 185…
Salesforce to buy customer service automation startup Cresta for reported $2.7B - SiliconANGLE
Salesforce Inc. has agreed to buy Cresta Intelligence Inc., a venture-backed provider of customer service software. The cloud giant didn't disclose the financial terms in its late Monday announcement of the deal. The Information reported that…
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