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19 Startup Habits Tech Companies Should Never Outgrow
Startups often move quickly because they have to, making the most of limited resources and adapting as circumstances change. As tech companies scale, added layers of process, approval and hierarchy can gradually slow decision making and erode the…
Pentagon offers battery startup 6K $250M loan to build U.S. factory
Batteries are everywhere, even on the battlefield, which helps explain the Pentagon's recent interest in building more domestic manufacturing capacity. The 12-year-old, North Andover, Mass.-based startup 6K announced Thursday that it won…
Why Snowflake's former revenue chief is joining a little-known AI infrastructure startup
After departing the cloud giant Snowflake in April for 'personal reasons,' former revenue chief Mike Gannon is joining AI infrastructure startup Spectro Cloud as its chief revenue officer. The $1 billion startup Spectro Cloud creates software that…
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Clutch Security, a startup that secures AI agents' access to company systems, for $500 million in cash plus additional milestone-based payouts, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
Three tech startups win $10,000 in pitch competition
Three Rwandan creative-tech platforms have won a combined $10,000 in grants after emerging top in a competition organised as part of the first Rwanda–Israel Creative Industries & Technology Week. The competition was held at Norrsken House…
Family offices boost startup investments in October, backing women's health and caregivers
Investment firms of ultra-wealthy families made 56 direct investments in companies in October, up nearly 30% from the month prior, according to Fintrx data. Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective was the most active family-office investor with…
AI Designer Babies? Thiel-Backed Startup Claims 14-Point IQ Boost
A startup backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund says its latest model can sort IVF embryos by intelligence, with 14 IQ points between the top and bottom of a batch of ten. 'AI is rapidly getting smarter. Now, humanity can too,' Nucleus Genomics…
From cancer to diabetes: Singapore biomedical startups expand into China to accelerate development of new treatments
GUANGZHOU: At a laboratory in Guangzhou, scientists are developing a new way to treat liver cancer by reprogramming the body's own immune cells to recognise and attack tumours. The method, developed by Singapore biotechnology firm Lion TCR, targets…
Creating Your Own Opportunity: How Graduates Can Use Pitch Decks to Approach Startup Founders
The file was called Deck_v6_final_FINAL.pdf, it ran to seven slides, and the founder of a twenty-person cold-brew coffee brand in Bangalore opened it on his phone at 11.20 on a Tuesday night, between a supplier's message and a payment reminder.
Autonomous combat drone maker Shield AI buys radar startup Echodyne for $5.3B - SiliconANGLE
Defense technology startup Shield AI Inc. said today it has agreed to buy the Bill Gates-backed radar startup Echodyne Inc. in a deal valued at $5.3 billion. The acquisition is intended to enhance Shield's autonomous drone warfighting capabilities…
Five9 buys contact center intelligence startup Level AI after posting narrow earnings beat - SiliconANGLE
Contact center company Five9 Inc. flexed its acquisitive muscles today as it announced a $325 million all-cash deal to buy an artificial intelligence-native rival called Level AI as it posted its third-quarter financial results. The deal is…
U.S. startup secures $9 million to scale production of 22.33%-efficient perovskite solar modules
US-based perovskite solar module manufacturer RadianX has secured $9 million in combined venture capital and project financing. The company plans to use the funding to scale up production of modules for connected devices, including sensors…
Industrials Slide on Flight From AI-Related Bets - Industrials Roundup
Shares of industrial and transportation companies slid as traders rotated out of sectors exposed to the artificial-intelligence boom. Construction machinery maker Caterpillar, which has become a major supplier of generators to data centers, fell…
Apollo-Backed Dental Firm vVardis Seeks $228.6 Million in US IPO
vVardis Holding AG, a Swiss dental startup, is seeking to raise as much as $228.6 million in a US initial public offering. The firm, which counts Apollo Global Management Inc. and OrbiMed Advisors among its investors, is offering 9.524 million…
Guest Column: Hollywood remix? Filmmaker from La. sees industry's future on the margins
Wynton Marsalis calls jazz “the perfect metaphor for democracy.” Every player brings a voice, but the band can really only swing together. As the world celebrates the year Miles Davis would have turned 100, it's worth remembering…
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