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AI Companies Are Paying This Indian Startup To Strap Cameras To Housekeepers' Heads
On a Tuesday evening in early July, Anushka Ahuja, a dentist in Gurgaon, India, opens the door for the house help she booked ten minutes ago on Pronto, an app that provides instant professional cleaning services like sweeping, mopping and laundry…
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Defense Department engineers in 2017 — five years before ChatGPT's public launch…
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents securely pull in outside data and tools — has filed a lawsuit against HR software startup Rippling, according to the…
Australian Airline Startup Koala Plots New Model to Dodge Qantas
Australian startup Koala Airlines Pty said it's in talks with more than 10 foreign carriers to provide domestic flights for their passengers after they arrive in the country, a new business model designed to avoid competition with Qantas Airways…
The LinkedIn Message That Sparked A Billion-Dollar Rocket Startup
Vikram-1's spectacular liftoff captured in slow motion Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Mukesh Bansal invested Rs 10 crore in Skyroot Aerospace after a cold LinkedIn message in 2018 Skyroot became India's first private company to launch…
This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing
A startup that has developed software to track whether AI coding tools are actually making developers more productive has raised $13.5 million. San Francisco-based Weave builds tools that measure the work of human engineers and AI coding tools…
The future of Wall Street is here as startups and brokers build AI agents to trade 24/7
Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans. 'Effectively everybody has their own family office that is working 24/7 for them while…
Nuclear energy startup funding is heating up
Venture funding for nuclear energy startups — both fusion and advanced fission — is surging. By the numbers: Global investment is over $4.5 billion for 81 companies so far this year, according to PitchBook, putting 2026 on pace to…
Chinese startup raises funds for space situational awareness constellation, joining commercial SSA rush
SINGAPORE — A Beijing-based startup has secured around $14 million to build a satellite constellation for tracking orbital objects, adding to China's growing SSA sector. Xingchen Daohe, also known as Stars Harmony, was reported to have…
Chennai-based Anicut Capital to invest in 20 startups with ₹175-crore fund
Chennai-headquartered Anicut Capital, an alternative asset management company managing multiple Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) across both debt and equity strategies, has launched Grand Anicut Seed Fund (GASF) with a target corpus of…
OT Security Startup Frenos Raises $1.52 Million
AI-native OT security startup Frenos today announced raising $1.52 million in a seed funding round extension that brings the total raised by the company to $6.4 million. The new investment round was led by Momenta and Exposition Ventures, with…
Exclusive: Andrew Ng's new AI-powered ed tech startup gets $100 million
Coursera is putting $100 million into LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng, a pioneer in AI and Coursera's chairman and co-founder, the companies shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The investment is one of the largest…
NYC AI startup backed by tech billionaire Khosla sues Rippling over trade secret theft
A New York-based AI startup is suing Rippling – a Silicon Valley software giant that got a $3 million tax break from Gov. Kathy Hochul – for allegedly stealing its trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of its…
Penn State researchers evaluating biomass-to-gasoline startup in northern Pa. | Penn State University
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Researchers in the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences are working with the entrepreneur behind the proposed startup of an innovative woody biomass-to-energy facility planned for north central Pennsylvania to…
Public finance body targets SMEs and startups in Cyprus
Cyprus' newly established Cyprus Business Development Organisation is expected to become operational within the next 12 to 18 months, despite legislation creating the institution having already been approved by parliament. The organisation is…
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