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Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-12 Startup Browser

Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-12 Israel Startup AI

Microsoft plans to spend $10B to build a data center in the Portuguese town of Sines in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-11 Microsoft Startup

Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (t.co)
2025-11-11 Startup AI

Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-11 Startup AI Decentralize

Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-11-11 Startup

Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-7 China Startup

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government “backstop” for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word “muddied the point” (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-7 Startup

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-7 Startup AI Zuckerberg

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs releases BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store (www.engadget.com)
2025-11-6 Startup AI

Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (www.ft.com)
2025-11-6 Startup

Sources: data center startup Crusoe is arranging an employee share sale involving ~$120M worth of shares that values it at ~$13B, up from $10B+ just weeks ago (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-6 Startup

A look at Bret Taylor's AI agent startup Sierra as it launches new products; source: Sierra is on track to exceed $100M in annualized revenue by January 2026 (www.forbes.com)
2025-11-6 Startup AI

A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks (www.latimes.com)
2025-11-5 Startup AI Robot

A look at Fermi, a startup co-founded by ex-US Energy Secretary Rick Perry that aims to build one of the world's largest datacenter campuses in Texas by 2038 (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-5 Energy Startup Texas

Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-3 Startup AI

Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-1 Startup Coinbase

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 55%+ (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-1 Startup AI

Universal Partners With AI Startup Udio After Settling Copyright Suit (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-31 Startup AI

Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova, with a deal likely valuing SambaNova below its $5B valuation in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-31 Intel Startup AI

AI 'Cheating' App Founder Says Engineers Can't Make Good, Viral Content and That's Why Their Startups Flop (slashdot.org)
2025-10-31 Startup AI

Sources: Nvidia plans to invest $500M to $1B in AI coding startup Poolside, which is in discussions to raise $2B at a $12B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-31 Startup AI Nvidia

Swedish startup Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams research and more, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.8B valuation, up from $675M in May after raising $80M (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-30 Startup AI Sweden

US Startup Substrate Announces Chipmaking Tool That It Says Will Rival ASML (slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Startup

Sources: Mastercard is in late-stage talks to acquire the crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup Zerohash for between $1.5B and $2B (fortune.com)
2025-10-30 Startup

Sources: legal AI startup Harvey raised $150M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from a $5B valuation in June, bringing its total raised to over $1B (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-30 Startup AI

PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Startup AI Nvidia

Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M led by a16z to test USD-backed coins for Pakistan, which the World Bank estimates has the third-largest unbanked population (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-28 Startup World Bank

Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of existing shareholders' stakes, valuing it at $4.5B ahead of a possible IPO (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-28 IPO Startup

Sources: Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, is exploring a sale, after its stock fell 90% since its 2021 IPO (www.ft.com)
2025-10-28 IPO Startup

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