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businessinsider.com - Lara O'Reilly - Adtech vet Brian O'Kelley's startup is pivoting to AI agents and rebranding with a new name
Adtech vet Brian O'Kelley's startup is pivoting to AI agents and rebranding with a new name
Business Insider

Adtech veteran Brian O'Kelley, once described as the 'master of the hard pivot,' is pushing the reset button again. O'Kelley and his cofounder, Anne Coghlan, exclusively told CMO Insider that they are renaming their company from Scope3 to Apostra…

businessinsider.com - Lara O'Reilly - Legal AI startup Spellbook hired a new CMO - and she has strong opinions on avoiding 'creepy' AI marketing
Legal AI startup Spellbook hired a new CMO - and she has strong opinions on avoiding 'creepy' AI marketing
Business Insider

The new CMO of a legal tech startup has a message for marketers: Stop using AI to pretend to be human. Spellbook, which offers AI tools for drafting and analyzing legal contracts, exclusively told CMO Insider that it had appointed Meltem…

wsj.com - Angus Loten - Fledgling Cyber Startups Draw Outsize Funding
Fledgling Cyber Startups Draw Outsize Funding
Wall Street Journal

Early-stage cybersecurity startups are outfunding their later-stage rivals for the first time in more than a decade, driven by surging demand for next-generation smart defenses against hackers armed with artificial intelligence. As of September…

techcrunch.com - Tim De Chant - Exclusive: Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy bets these 21 startups will shape energy's future
Exclusive: Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy bets these 21 startups will shape energy's future
TechCrunch

While the world is focused on the power demands of AI data centers, the folks at Breakthrough Energy are paying attention, but not for the reasons you might think. “Data centers are a 10% bump against basically flat demand for electricity…

bloomberg.com - Michelle Ma - Climate Startup Shifts Focus From Carbon Removal to Oil Recovery
Climate Startup Shifts Focus From Carbon Removal to Oil Recovery
Bloomberg

Direct air capture startup Spiritus was founded to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and bury it underground. Now, it's pivoting to selling that CO2 to help extract oil, as the clean-tech industry recalibrates following US federal funding…

entrepreneur.com - Aytekin Tank - The Road Less Traveled - The 3 Unconventional Paths I Took to Build a Successful Startup
The Road Less Traveled - The 3 Unconventional Paths I Took to Build a Successful Startup
Homepage | Entrepreneur

There isn't just one correct way to build a successful startup, despite what conventional wisdom might tell you. Playing the long game, making teamwork part of my business strategy and saying “no thanks” to remote work helped make my…

euronews.com - Roselyne Min - Startups in Europe are pitching ways to tackle the AI power crunch
Startups in Europe are pitching ways to tackle the AI power crunch
Euronews.com

Europe's push to build its own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is intensifying a debate over whether its electricity system can keep pace. Data-centre electricity consumption across the continent is projected to rise from 96…

semafor.com - Liz Hoffman - View: Fintech startups that hated banks are now becoming them
View: Fintech startups that hated banks are now becoming them
Semafor

“This is the beginning of a bankless world,” proclaimed a 2016 ad for SoFi, which embodied the sneering disdain its generation of fintech startups had for the banks they were out to dethrone. SoFi is now a bank, the 46th biggest in…

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment - SiliconANGLE
Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment - SiliconANGLE
Homepage - SiliconANGLE

Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Y…

pymnts.com - PYMNTS - Anthropic Alumni Startup Sees Valuation Jump Fivefold
Anthropic Alumni Startup Sees Valuation Jump Fivefold
PYMNTS.com | Breaking News, Trends and Analysis

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pymnts.com - PYMNTS - Monzo's EU Chief Leaves Neobank to Launch Robotics Startup
Monzo's EU Chief Leaves Neobank to Launch Robotics Startup
PYMNTS.com | Breaking News, Trends and Analysis

Michael Carney is stepping down from the U.K. neobank, where he has served as European Union CEO since 2024, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 22) Bloomberg News report citing an emailed statement from the executive. “I'll continue to lead the…

forbes.com - Antoine Sallis - The Future Of Fintech
The Future Of Fintech
Forbes

Antoine Sallis is the CEO of Credit Genius and Best Selling Author of The Great American Credit Secret Trilogy. For the past 10 years, “fintech” referred to the process of placing a laborious, paper-based financial procedure on a…

tomshardware.com - Mark Tyson - ‘We'll be the first to mine Bitcoin in space' says Nvidia-backed startup -Starcloud will fire up its ASICs after its second spacecraft reaches orbit later this year
‘We'll be the first to mine Bitcoin in space' says Nvidia-backed startup -Starcloud will fire up its ASICs after its second spacecraft reaches orbit later this year
Tom's Hardware

An Nvidia-backed startup plans to establish a Bitcoin mining operation in space before the year is out. Starcloud will fire up its cryptocurrency mining ASICs after its second spacecraft reaches orbit later this year. “We'll be the first to…

techcrunch.com - Jagmeet Singh - Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
TechCrunch

Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, has raised $77 million in a new funding round as it aims to take on more of the work traditionally handled by enterprise software and IT…

seekingalpha.com - APAC Research - MOO: Tailwinds Are Priced In, AI Is A Threat And Boon (Downgrade) (NYSEARCA:MOO)
MOO: Tailwinds Are Priced In, AI Is A Threat And Boon (Downgrade) (NYSEARCA:MOO)
Seeking Alpha

VanEck Agribusiness ETF is up ~20% since last review, driven by geopolitical disruptions and government support for agriculture. I downgrade MOO to a hold, as tailwinds appear priced in and margin pressures may increase post-midterms and as supply…

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