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forbes.com - Kathleen Hurley - IT Setup For Startups: A Guide For Small Businesses
IT Setup For Startups: A Guide For Small Businesses
Forbes

Kathleen Hurley is the founder of Sage Inc., a tech company that offers SMB businesses infrastructure solutions and next-gen technology. Setting up IT infrastructure for a new small business isn't one-size-fits-all. Understanding what you need…

japantimes.co.jp - Natsuko Kato - Tokyo startup envisions a world where nothing stays lost
Tokyo startup envisions a world where nothing stays lost
The Japan Times

This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Tokyo Updates website. With the vision of creating 'a world where every lost item is found,' Find Inc. runs Find (stylized as find), a cloud-based…

forbes.com - Steven Wolfe Pereira - Building A One-Person Unicorn? This Startup Just Raised $8.7M To Help
Building A One-Person Unicorn? This Startup Just Raised $8.7M To Help
Forbes

At The General Intelligence Company, an agent monitors the support inbox. When a customer requests a feature, the agent writes the code, submits it for review, and pushes it toward production. No human touches it until the final approval. This…

popsci.com - Margherita Bassi - Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer
Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer
Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When most people need to go number one, they find the nearest bathroom and don't give half a thought to what happens to their pee once it disappears down the toilet or urinal. It turns…

forbes.com - Dileep Rao - Startup Funding In 2026: How Unicorns Will Take Off Without Early VC
Startup Funding In 2026: How Unicorns Will Take Off Without Early VC
Forbes

Financing is one of the most misunderstood – and most challenging – parts of building a startup. Many entrepreneurs believe they must secure venture capital early to succeed. Yet research into America's billion-dollar founders reveals…

techcrunch.com - Tim De Chant - Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales
Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales
TechCrunch

Quilt, the Redwood City-based, California startup that's created sleek, customizable heat pumps, has raised $20 million in a Series B round that closed recently. The company previously raised a $33 million Series A, which it announced in April…

wsj.com - Angus Loten - Exclusive | Cyber Startup Saviynt Raises $700 Million to Secure Identity and Access
Exclusive | Cyber Startup Saviynt Raises $700 Million to Secure Identity and Access
Wall Street Journal

Saviynt, an identity and access management startup, raised $700 million in an outsize Series B funding round, reflecting a heated market for internal safeguards as companies race to automate business processes, the company said. The round, which…

thestar.com.my - Mike Scarcella - US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk's X
US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk's X
The Star Online

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp has abandoned them. The…

decrypt.co - Jason Nelson - Tether Invests in Italian Robotics Startup Generative Bionics Amid Humanoid Hype
Tether Invests in Italian Robotics Startup Generative Bionics Amid Humanoid Hype
Decrypt

Tether has entered the humanoid robotics race. The company said Monday it invested in Generative Bionics as part of a €70 million (US$81 million) round, joining a sector dominated by firms like Tesla and Nvidia. Tether said its funding will…

mercurynews.com - Gabriel Sama - AI computer startup hits $4.5 billion valuation in seed round
AI computer startup hits $4.5 billion valuation in seed round
The Mercury News

(Bloomberg/Rachel Metz) — A two-month-old startup from the former head of artificial intelligence at Databricks Inc. has raised a seed round of funding from investors at a valuation of $4.5 billion for its effort to build a novel, more…

thehindu.com - Reuters - U.S. startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk's X
U.S. startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk's X
The Hindu

A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp has abandoned them. The Virginia-based startup…

globes.co.il - Assaf Gilead - The Israeli startup servicing the self-employment boom
The Israeli startup servicing the self-employment boom
גלובס

In a glass room impervious to noise at the startup Tailor Brands in Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv sits company founder and CEO Yali Saar. In the corridor outside an electronic music set plays while the workers, most of them young people in their…

tomsguide.com - Amanda Caswell - Tiny AI startup just crushed Google's Gemini 3 on a key reasoning test - here's what we know
Tiny AI startup just crushed Google's Gemini 3 on a key reasoning test - here's what we know
Tom's Guide

Since Gemini 3 made its debut, it has successfully held the top spot on the LMArena leaderboard. This leaderboard is a crowdsourced ranking where thousands of real users compare AI models head-to-head across a wide range of tasks, voting on which…

pv-magazine.com - Marija Maisch - European energy storage startups raise €2.14 billion in equity funding
European energy storage startups raise €2.14 billion in equity funding
pv magazine International

As energy storage becomes increasingly vital for renewable integration, grid resilience, and energy security, investors are ramping up support for technology developers. While China continues to dominate manufacturing, European energy storage…

glassalmanac.com - Emily Thompson - 6 Game-Changing AR Moves in 2025 That Meta And Startups Just Revealed
6 Game-Changing AR Moves in 2025 That Meta And Startups Just Revealed
Glass Almanac

Surprise greets 6 AR shifts in 2025. The pace of change accelerated this week as major players reprioritized bets and made strategic buys. The New York Times, TechCrunch and The Verge report fresh moves – budget cuts at Meta, an acquisition…

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