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Semiconductor Giants Are Busy Backing Startups This Year
Anyone with a stock portfolio has invariably noticed that semiconductor companies are on a tear this year. Massive AI spending has helped push earnings and valuations for industry leaders to record levels. In turn, semiconductor giants are…
The 25 most promising robotics startups in 2026, according to investors
Nominated by: Amy Yin, defy.vc (an investor) Total funding: $6.5 million, according to the company What it does: San Francisco-based Avatar Robotics uses remotely operated robots to sort and pack products in warehouses. The company uses data from…
$1 billion NYC-startup Dash0 acquires Berlin tech company to build software that fixes itself
The American software startup Dash0 is going on a shopping spree: the New York City-headquartered observability company, founded by Mirko Novakovic, is acquiring Berlin-based startup Polar Signals, the companies announced on Monday. The acquisition…
3 In 4 Spacetech Startups Yet To Raise Equity Capital
India may have joined a club of three nations with private orbital launch capability following Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 milestone, but three among four of the country's space startups are still waiting on their first funding round. Data from…
Saints & Masters launches ONAM Cloud for Indian startups and enterprises
Saints & Masters, a global technology advisory and execution firm, has launched ONAM (Orchestrated Networks, Applications and Machines) Cloud, a cloud platform designed to offer Indian startups, enterprises and industries enterprise-grade cloud…
Goldman and Intel back $5.4bn AI video startup
Goldman Sachs and Intel have backed AI video maker Higgsfield in a $400m (£295m) funding round that has more than quadrupled the two-year-old company's valuation since January. The fresh funding values the startup at $5.4bn, up from $1.3bn…
ChatGPT Helped Design a Dog Cancer Vaccine, Now It's a Startup
Paul Conyngham's dog Rosie was given months to live. Chemotherapy failed. Immunotherapy failed. So the Sydney tech entrepreneur did something unconventional — he used ChatGPT and computational genomics to help design a personalized mRNA…
Stripe to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7bn
Stripe has finalised a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that helps businesses switch between different AI models, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The transaction is valued at more than $7bn, although the final price…
Exclusive | Floating Point Raises $125 Million Fund to Tackle 'Real World' Businesses
Floating Point sponsored its first roll-up—of a car-washing business—in 2021, years before the notion of buying analog caught on among venture investors. “The idea that this could be somehow a venture play was quite foreign to…
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
Wispr, a startup known for its AI dictation tool, raised $280 million in Series B funding, led by Menlo Ventures, at a $2 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. The funds will allow Wispr to increase its footprint as it ventures into…
Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network
Uber is investing in, and partnering with, drone delivery company Zipline with the goal of making one million deliveries per day using the startup's drones by the end of 2029. Zipline drones will make the first deliveries on the Uber Eats platform…
Layoff fears are pushing some visa holders out of Big Tech
When Vinit Juneja started as a software engineer at Amazon last year, he knew he might leave one day for a more attractive role. But after watching colleagues lose their jobs during two rounds of layoffs that eliminated roughly 30,000 positions at…
German drone maker Helsing enlists Rakuten to broker Japan military deal
TOKYO, Aug 17 - German drone maker Helsing has enlisted Japanese e-commerce and finance firm Rakuten to help finalise a deal to sell its unmanned systems to Japan's army, a spokesperson for Rakuten said on Monday. Japan's Ground Self-Defence Forces…
Groq Valued at $3.5 Billion in Funding Round After Nvidia Deal
(Bloomberg) -- Groq has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, roughly half what it was worth nearly a year ago before Nvidia Corp. struck a licensing deal with the startup and hired away much of its talent.The financing, set…
Azerbaijan seeks to nurture tech sector as it looks beyond oil
BAKU, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Long reliant on oil and gas exports, Azerbaijan is courting foreign investment in its small but growing technology sector with a series of reforms aimed at attracting tech companies and venture capital. The former…
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