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Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss
Meta has tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, as the US tech giant seeks ways to monetise the messaging app's massive user base. The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead…
Desperate AI Startup Now Cleaning Messy Apartments for Free
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The adage, “data is the new currency,” has taken on a whole new meaning in a society obsessed with AI. The prevailing thinking is that with more data, AI models will…
Menopause Startup Funding: Why Alloy Raised Less Than A Rival
Anne Fulenwider and Monica Molenaar, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, Alloy Women's Health. Alloy Women's Health, a telehealth platform connecting women to board-certified, menopause-trained physicians for perimenopause and menopause care. Anne Fulenwider…
Delivery robot startup Robot.com is betting its next act on workplace humanoids
Delivery robot startup Robot.com is expanding into workplace humanoids, targeting industrial, food services, and logistics customers with a new robot designed to complete repetitive tasks. The San Francisco-based startup, formerly known as Kiwibot…
MrBeast has hired a team from an A16z-backed startup as he races to build a creator platform
MrBeast has been on a hiring spree as he builds a platform to match brands with creators for sponsorship deals — and diversify his company beyond YouTube. His company, Beast Industries, recently hired a team from the creator-commerce startup…
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp's next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who is stepping down after nearly seven years at the helm to take on a new product-building role at the…
How a $4 billion Indian startup won Meta's backing but lost its founder to WhatsApp
Indian fintech startup Cred will raise $900 million in funding at a valuation of over $4 billion on Monday. Meta led the funding round and will be a minority investor in Cred. Meta will not have access to CRED's customer data as part of the deal.
Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026
Robotics startup funding hit a record high in 2025, per Crunchbase data. And that trend is continuing in 2026 so far, with funding to the sector already eclipsing 2025's totals. Globally, robotics startups have so far raised $18.8 billion in 2026…
Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss
The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead a $900 million funding round in Shah's consumer finance firm CRED. 'Kunal built CRED into one of India's most important technology companies,' Meta chief Mark…
Startup looks to reshape shipping | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A Bay Area startup is trying to reinvent the semitruck by making the gas-guzzling giants electric, autonomous and designed for efficiency. Humble Robotics, founded last year in San Francisco, has raised $24 million to develop a cabless freight…
Can reflecting the Sun buy time for net zero? A startup has raised $US75m to try
Private firms are making plans to cool the planet by releasing reflective particles high into the atmosphere, an idea known as solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM). With a war chest of private capital estimated at more than…
How Yann LeCun's Startup Challenges the Logic Behind Today's A.I. Race
Meta 's former chief A.I. scientist, Yann LeCun, helped lay the groundwork for the modern A.I. boom long before chatbots became an industry obsession. Now, after leaving Meta in late 2025, he is building a multibillion-dollar startup under the…
SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion
SpaceX has signed a major computing power deal with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at Elon Musk's Colossus 2 data center. The open-source AI startup will pay Musk's company $150 million per month starting July 1, 2026, with payments…
Why India's wealthy families are betting on startups as venture capitalists pull back
MUMBAI: When the family behind Indian real estate developer Sattva Group decided to diversify its investments, it turned its attention to technology startups. Adrija Agarwal - who graduated from Cornell University in the United States in 2016 and…
Fifteen African AI Startups Graduate From Google for Startups Accelerator, 60% Already Profitable
Fifteen AI-focused startups from eight African countries have completed the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme, with 60% of the cohort already profitable and generating average monthly revenue of $60,000, organizers said on Thursday.
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