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techcrunch.com - Kirsten Korosec - Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
TechCrunch

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…

afaqs.com - afaqs! partner content - NewsReach wins Kaleido Award 2026 for Best Startup Campaign for Crafting Bharat Season 2, powered by AWS Startups
NewsReach wins Kaleido Award 2026 for Best Startup Campaign for Crafting Bharat Season 2, powered by AWS Startups
afaqs!

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…

bloomberg.com - Yazhou Sun - Anthropic Sends Jolt Through the Market for Buying Shares in the Hottest Pre-IPO Startups
Anthropic Sends Jolt Through the Market for Buying Shares in the Hottest Pre-IPO Startups
Bloomberg

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.

wsj.com - Kosaku Narioka - Japanese Alzheimer's Startup Sound Wave Raises About $17 Million
Japanese Alzheimer's Startup Sound Wave Raises About $17 Million
Wall Street Journal

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…

wsj.com - WSJ staff - Sound Wave, an Alzheimer's-Therapy Startup, Raises $17 Million
Sound Wave, an Alzheimer's-Therapy Startup, Raises $17 Million
Wall Street Journal

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…

crunchbase.com - Joanna Glasner - Sector Snapshot: Quantum Computing Startup Investment Slows In 2026 While Public Markets Hold Strong
Sector Snapshot: Quantum Computing Startup Investment Slows In 2026 While Public Markets Hold Strong
Crunchbase

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…

koreatimes.co.kr - Jhoo Dong-chan - Korean sleep-tech startup advances to global finals of The Pitch tournament
Korean sleep-tech startup advances to global finals of The Pitch tournament
The Korea Times

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.

fortune.com - Lily Mae Lazarus - The AI boom is pulling Europe's hottest startups to the U.S.-whether they planned to move or not
The AI boom is pulling Europe's hottest startups to the U.S.-whether they planned to move or not
Fortune

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…

mit.edu - Startup making reusable emergency housing wins MIT $100K competition
Startup making reusable emergency housing wins MIT $100K competition
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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…

thehindu.com - The Hindu Bureau - Space Meetings Veneto 2026: Nine Indian space startups sign multiple strategic collaborations in Italy
Space Meetings Veneto 2026: Nine Indian space startups sign multiple strategic collaborations in Italy
The Hindu

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…

dev.to - Josh Cox - I Built Startup Graveyard to Study Why Startups Fail
I Built Startup Graveyard to Study Why Startups Fail
DEV Community

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…

siliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley - Multiplayer AI startup Dust raises $40M to help enterprises move beyond isolated AI assistants
Multiplayer AI startup Dust raises $40M to help enterprises move beyond isolated AI assistants
SiliconANGLE

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…

cityam.com - Saskia Koopman - Barclays names Fractile and Isomorphic Labs among UK's top AI startups
Barclays names Fractile and Isomorphic Labs among UK's top AI startups
City AM

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…

forbes.com - Steve Smith - How Critical Industries Can Bridge The AI-Talent Gap
How Critical Industries Can Bridge The AI-Talent Gap
Forbes

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…

businessinsider.com - Melia Russell - The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2026
The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2026
Business Insider

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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