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Unlock Your AI's Superpowers: The Prompting Secrets Of Top Startups
Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and a passionate advisor to numerous startups. I've had a front-row seat, guiding countless startups as they harness the immense power of cloud and AI. Every day, I…
AI Can Potentially Stem Refinery Closures In Europe, Says Startup Boss
The situation in Europe's refining and petrochemical sector is nothing short of dire. On average one refinery a month has shutdown over the course of 2025, based on data from across the wider European Economic Area and U.K. Many others are staring…
Can This Viral Real Estate Startup Succeed Where Redfin And Zillow Failed?
For decades, startups have tried and failed to upend how Americans buy and sell homes. From Zillow Offers to Purplebricks, each effort ran into the same wall: an entrenched ecosystem that defends the 6% commission with surprising durability. A new…
Exclusive: AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI
The Venn diagram of engineers that know a little bit about AI, self driving, and mining has a small intersection. Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski wants as many of those people as possible. And an acquisition is helping him achieve that goal. The…
10x In 10 Years: Korea's Startup Ecosystem Comes of Age
Over the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing innovation ecosystems. Just 10 years ago, the country had around 200 scaleups — today, that number has grown tenfold to more than 2,100. This remarkable…
This startup just raised $15 million to create custom maps with AI for monitoring wildfire and flood risks
California-based startup Felt has secured $15 million for its platform that lets customers build custom geospatial maps with generative AI. The startup, launched in 2021, has designed a software tool that turns users' location data points into a…
Middle East Startups Double Fundraising to Defy Broad Slowdown
Startups in the Middle East nearly doubled their fundraising in the first half of the year, defying a slowdown in venture capital investment in emerging markets brought on by economic uncertainty and investor caution. About $1.35 billion in VC…
Employment woes are coming for startup talent
As doomsday predictions loom for what AI means for jobs, some AI employees find themselves on a shaky limb. Big tech companies are increasingly paying huge sums to pull away top talent — but avoiding the kind of acquisitions that reward…
Why Skipping This One PR Move Could Stall Your Startup's Growth Before It Even Begins
Startups often spend months perfecting their product, but forget to tell the world it exists. A classic study in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science found that public relations is nearly three times more effective than advertising when…
Why the cofounder of Nextdoor came back after five years of investing in startups
– Home sweet home. They say you can never go home again, but Sarah Leary would disagree. In 2019, the Nextdoor cofounder stepped away from the company she helped build. Five years later, she returned to her old stomping grounds to help usher…
Another live startup pitch series started in St. Tammany
STartUP Northshore has created a series of live pitch competitions called The Launchpad to spotlight early-stage founders from across the Northshore. It builds on the success of NSpire Startup Slam. The new initiative is a minipitch designed to…
Fraud startup Heka bags $14M to crush online fraud
Heka Global, a startup using real-time behavioral analysis to detect and prevent digital fraud, raised a $14 million Series A, CEO Idan Bar-Dov tells Axios Pro exclusively. Why it matters: Financial firms are seeking smarter, real-time defenses to…
Bay Area startup plundered by Google, bought by rival in 'rollercoaster' weekend
Bay Area tech companies are battling to build popular, useful artificial intelligence — and the fight just ripped apart a startup. Windsurf, an AI company based in Mountain View, began last week as a reported $3 billion acquisition target…
NEEEV entrepreneurship scheme: Delhi govt introduces startup training in schools
Students in Delhi government schools will now be introduced to structured entrepreneurial training as part of a new initiative - New Era of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Vision (NEEEV). The scheme aims to develop innovation, problem-solving and…
US AI startups see funding surge while more VC funds struggle to raise, data shows
(Reuters) -U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, even as venture capital firms struggled to raise money, a report from PitchBook on Tuesday…
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