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Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation (www.forbes.com)
17 days ago Startup AI Insurance

Magnitt: startup funding in the Middle East and North Africa was flat YoY at $799M in Q1 amid the Iran war; Saudi VC firms are pressing ahead with fundraising (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Startup Iran Africa

Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla (yro.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Startup Tesla

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models (siliconangle.com)
19 days ago Startup

Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Startup AI Asset

Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything that iOS App Store rules for their apps are applied erratically (www.ft.com)
20 days ago IOS Startup Apple

A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M+ paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists (www.forbes.com)
20 days ago Startup AI

The $19B "Nuclear AI" Energy Startup That Couldn't Sign a Single Client (hardware.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Energy Startup AI

Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Startup AI Robot Intelligence

Serverless inference platform Featherless.ai raised a $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures; the startup supports over 30,000 open models (tech.eu)
24 days ago Startup AI Airbus AMD

Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100,000 robots by the end of 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Startup Robot California

Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the chip toolmaker after it discovered his family had invested in competing Chinese startups (www.ft.com)
24 days ago China Startup Tokyo

Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Israeli crypto security startup Sodot, sources say in a $100M all-stock deal, to launch a unit focused on institutions (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Israel Startup

Indonesia sentences eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison, concluding a $300M scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia's top startups (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Asia Startup Indonesia Southeast Asia

Cash-rich AI startups fuel a boom in Manhattan's commercial real-estate market; many offices have more vacant desks than workers, as startups prepare to scale (www.wsj.com)
25 days ago Startup AI

US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model (venturebeat.com)
25 days ago Startup

Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict “firewalls” between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China Startup

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago Startup

China Blocks Meta's $2 Billion Takeover of AI Startup Manus (tech.slashdot.org)
26 days ago China Startup AI

Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M (siliconangle.com)
27 days ago Startup Quantum

Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Energy Startup Solar

Two Hot Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs (news.slashdot.org)
27 days ago IPO Startup Climate

Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M (www.calcalistech.com)
27 days ago Israel Startup AI

Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (www.axios.com)
28 days ago Startup Robot Tokyo

Sources: AI startups are struggling to access Nvidia GPUs as Microsoft and other cloud providers divert supply to internal teams and large customers like OpenAI (www.theinformation.com)
30 days ago Microsoft Startup AI Nvidia

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (restofworld.org)
30 days ago Startup

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-4-22 Startup SpaceX

Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-22 China Startup AI

Nigerian drone startup Terra Industries raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others and is opening its first international factory in Accra, Ghana (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-20 Startup Drone Nigeria

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