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An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (fortune.com)
1 day ago Interview Startup

Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago India Mobile Startup

AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 (www.businessinsider.com)
2 days ago Startup AI Salesforce CRM

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup Netherlands

As ‘vibe coding' becomes Silicon Valley's latest catchphrase, Bengaluru startup promises enterprise app development in minutes (indianexpress.com)
5 days ago Startup

Sources: cloud startup Vercel is raising hundreds of millions of dollars led by Accel at a valuation of about $9B, up from about $3B in a round last year (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup

A profile of Egune AI, a startup building LLMs for the Mongolian language, as it navigates geopolitics, a lack of resources, and the nascent local tech scene (restofworld.org)
6 days ago Startup AI

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup “copied and stored” their content without permission (t.co)
7 days ago Japan Startup AI Tokyo

AI infrastructure provider Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M (www.calcalistech.com)
9 days ago Israel Startup AI

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney, to license the startup's “aesthetic technology” for Meta's future models and products (x.com)
10 days ago Startup

Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports (www.theinformation.com)
11 days ago Google Startup

Autonomous driving tech startup Nuro closed its $203M Series E at a $6B valuation, adding $97M from Uber, Nvidia, and others to April's $106M tranche (t.co)
12 days ago Uber Startup Nvidia

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek releases upgraded model with domestic chip support (indianexpress.com)
12 days ago China Startup AI

Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, is launching “always-on” AI glasses for $249 (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Startup AI Ban Facial Recognition

Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus and an earlier product called Monica, says its annual revenue run rate has hit $90M, with Manus contributing the most (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Startup

San Francisco Car Rental Startup Kyte, Once Seen as Hertz Rival, Shuts Down (tech.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Startup San Francisco

Sources: Anthropic asked Menlo to use the VC firm's own capital for investment in the startup and not an SPV, as Menlo did in a previous funding round (www.businessinsider.com)
14 days ago Startup

Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches AI startup Parallel to build ‘web for machines' (indianexpress.com)
15 days ago Startup AI Twitter

PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds (fortune.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks (www.forbes.com)
17 days ago Startup

Jump, a SaaS startup founded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore for managing sports ticketing and fan experiences, raised a $23M Series A at a $100M+ valuation (www.forbes.com)
17 days ago SaaS Startup

Sam Altman says OpenAI “totally screwed up some things” on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (www.theverge.com)
18 days ago Startup

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago Startup

Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago Startup AI

Sources: chip startup Rivos, which plans to release a GPU for inference as early as 2026, is seeking to raise between $400M and $500M at a $2B+ valuation (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago Startup

This Stanford graduate's startup wants to change how websites are built using AI (indianexpress.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

A look at social media “clippers”, who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago Startup

US tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago Trump Tax Startup

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