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Sources: AI science startup Periodic Labs, founded by ex-OpenAI VP Liam Fedus and DeepMind's Ekin Cubuk, aims to raise hundreds of millions at a ~$7B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

AI note taking startup Granola raised $125M led by Index Ventures at a $1.5B valuation, and plans Claude integrations and agentic AI features in the next year (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

Amity, a Thailand-based startup that provides generative AI tools to businesses like retail and telecom, raised $100M in a Series D as it plans for a 2027 IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago IPO Retail Thailand Startup AI

Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (www.cnbc.com)
12 days ago Startup

Internal memo: Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its AI For Work initiative, previously led by Guy Rosen, seeking to compete with AI native startups (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find “misfit” founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable (www.ft.com)
12 days ago Europe Startup AI Asset

How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing billions in startups and supporting customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Startup Drone

Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups (fortune.com)
13 days ago Startup

Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Startup Norway

Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Startup

Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K of AMD's MI355 chips, in a bid to “diversify to other chips” as “we have a lot of Nvidia chips” (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Korea Startup AI Nvidia AMD

Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (colossus.com)
15 days ago Startup

A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence (deepdelver.substack.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

How AI startups and founders use “taste” as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality (www.newyorker.com)
17 days ago Startup AI

Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (www.theinformation.com)
17 days ago Amazon Startup Robot Switzerland

OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral (developers.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Startup

Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and incubate “one-person companies”, startups run by a single founder with AI's help (restofworld.org)
17 days ago China Startup AI

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (www.upstartsmedia.com)
18 days ago Startup

Israeli startup Raven, which offers runtime monitoring and intervention in attacks as they unfold inside applications, raised a $20M seed (www.calcalistech.com)
18 days ago Israel Startup

Stripe and Paradigm-backed startup Tempo launches the Machine Payments Protocol and its blockchain to facilitate autonomous AI agent transactions (fortune.com)
18 days ago Blockchain Startup AI

Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K (www.forbes.com)
18 days ago Israel Startup AI

The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide incorporation regime that it says takes 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago China Europe Startup

Mastercard agrees to acquire UK-based stablecoin payments infrastructure startup BVNK for $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
19 days ago Startup

Enterprise AI automation startup Standard Template Labs raised a $49M seed co-led by Iconiq and CRV, a source says at a $300M post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

Agentic cybersecurity startup Surf AI, which helps teams read signals from identity, cloud, and other tools, emerges from stealth with $57M in seed and Series A (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago Korea Startup AI

Chip cooling startup Frore, which designs channels that conduct liquid coolant in 3D shapes unique to each chip, raised $143M led by MVP at a $1.64B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Startup

Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI “wrappers” (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago India Google Startup AI

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago India Startup

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