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Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund II. The firm, founded in 2021, backs early-stage companies in fintech, supply chain, and the future of work. It's backed 75 companies to…
Former DeepMind Researchers Bet on Visual AI With New Startup
Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai believes that the artificial intelligence models at big labs have the intelligence of a 3-year-old kid, at least when it comes to making sense of visual prompts. So he's co-founding a research startup to…
Google DeepMind started moving faster by acting like a startup, Demis Hassabis says
One reorg led Google DeepMind to become the lab it is today. On an episode of the '20VC' podcast released on Tuesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared how his AI lab has caught up with its rivals in the last two to three years. Hassabis…
Exclusive: Juno, CPA-Founded Startup That Aims To Make Tax Returns Less Painful With AI, Raises $12M
In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI 's ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a tax return on the screen, the accountant…
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Space Tech Startup Astrophel Aerospace To Test Reusable Rocket Prototype
Astrophel Aerospace, a Pune-based space technology startup developing propulsion systems and launch vehicles, is preparing for the test flight of its reusable suborbital rocket on August 15, 2026. The startup said the vehicle, designed as a…
FanDuel's Former CLO Goes To Fintech Startup Airwallex
Australia-based financial technology startup Airwallex will continue its expansion into the U.S. market next week as the company welcomes the former chief legal officer of FanDuel as its new compliance officer.... To view the full article, register…
A startup building the Harvey for patent law has raised $40 million
As Harvey and Legora race to become the main AI tool for lawyers, a wave of startups is going deeper, building software for more specialized work. Patlytics is one of them, betting that the future of legal tech won't be broad platforms, but…
'Startups need people who can make it happen': Gurgaon founder fires worker over message; Post viral on internet | Dynamite News
Post Published By: Ayushi Bisht Updated: 9 April 2026, 9:02 PM IST New Delhi: A post by Nikhil Rana, founder of The 15, has ignited discussion on social media over workplace expectations and employee rights in startups. The controversy began after…
Tech company co-founders hope new south metro space becomes startup launch pad
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A team of tech company founders will open a new space Thursday in the south metro to help the next generation of tech startups get off the ground or grow their businesses. Step One 2 Launch is opening Thursday in…
This U.S. Startup Raised $2.5M to Replace Your Budgeting App With a Wearable Ring - News Anyway
A firm recently persuaded investors to put $2.5 million into a ring in a San Francisco co-working space. Not a ring made of diamonds. Not even a very fashionable one. A large piece of circuitry and titanium that replaces the budgeting software you…
19 Ideas Kicks Off 'Startup Wednesday'
Western New York's burgeoning startup community just got another big boost, thanks to an ingenious new “pitch competition, with cash prize” effort by strategic marketing agency 19 Ideas. The Startup Wednesday initiative –…
Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions
Canva announced on Wednesday the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company. The financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Canva says the…
74% of Startups Fail From Premature Scaling. Your Tech Stack Might Be the Problem.
In 2011, Startup Genome partnered with Berkeley and Stanford to study 3,200 startups. They wanted to know why most fail. The answer wasn't bad ideas. It wasn't lack of funding. It wasn't competition. 74% of startups that failed did so because of…
Anthropic says its latest AI model can expose weaknesses in software security
Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses. Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which…
Global Investors Help Boost Latin America's Late-Stage Funding Boom In Q1
A boom in late-stage and growth funding helped buoy venture funding in Latin America for the first quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows. Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the…
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