Startup

A profile of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, who has transformed the once-scrappy delivery startup into a ~$90B industry consolidator through an acquisition spree (www.cnbc.com)
28 days ago Startup

Boston-based cloud cost management startup CloudZero raised a $56M Series C led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital (www.axios.com)
29 days ago Startup

The Hottest New Vibe Coding Startup May Be a Sitting Duck For Hackers (it.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Startup

Sources: Atticus, a stealthy stablecoin banking startup, is in advanced talks to raise new funding led by Palmer Luckey at a valuation of between $1.5B and $2B (www.axios.com)
29 days ago Startup

Q&A with Luther Lowe, YC's first full-time lobbyist, on advocating for “Little Tech” and ensuring that startups have a voice in Washington, DC, and Brussels (on.ft.com)
2025-5-28 Startup

SignalFire: startups and Big Tech firms cut hiring of recent graduates by 11% and 25% respectively in 2024 vs. 2023, as AI can handle routine, low-risk tasks (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28 Startup AI

Documents: self-driving truck startup TuSimple transferred critical autonomous driving tech and data to Chinese partners despite a 2022 agreement with CFIUS (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-27 China Startup

Taiwan is ramping up its defense drone push with help from startups like Coretronic, as giants like TSMC and Foxconn hold back due to a smaller local market (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-27 Taiwan Startup Drone

The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times (indicator.media)
2025-5-27 Startup

A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, which aims to supply talent to Emirati companies, incubate startups, and serve as the UAE's AI R&D arm (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-27 Startup AI

CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startups rose from $315M in 2022 to $2.1B in 2024, driven by growing business adoption of voice AI agents in call centers (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-27 Startup AI

CX2, a defense tech startup building software and hardware, including autonomous drones, for electronic warfare, raised a $31M Series A led by Point72 Ventures (www.axios.com)
2025-5-25 Startup Drone

Metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claims a $15B+ valuation, told shareholders it is rebranding as Napster, an “AI-powered digital experiences” provider (www.forbes.com)
2025-5-24 Startup AI

Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal, so it is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; the OpenAI Startup Fund also invested in io in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-23 Startup

OpenAI buys iPhone designer Ive's hardware startup, names him creative head (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 iPhone Startup

How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22 Startup AI YouTube

SEC Sues Crypto Startup Unicoin and Its Executives For Fraud (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Startup

OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's Startup in $6.5 Billion Deal To Create AI Devices (slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Startup AI

OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-22 Startup AI

Singapore-based business banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $150M at a $6.2B valuation, up from $5.6B in October 2022, and debuts a $150M share sale (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-21 Startup Singapore

AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-21 Startup AI Nvidia Equity Texas

Inside the first Stargate AI data center, in Abilene, Texas: thousands working to build eight near-identical structures, startup Crusoe spending ~$12B, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-21 Startup AI Texas

Inside the first Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas: thousands working to build eight near-identical structures, startup Crusoe spending $12B, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-20 Startup AI Texas

SignalFire: in 2024, Big Tech employment declined 1.6% in Austin, and startup employment fell 4.9%; Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Toronto also declined (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-20 Startup Toronto

Graphiant, a San Jose-based NaaS startup, raised a $19M Series B extension led by Aramco's Wa'ed and Saudi Telecom's Tali, bringing the round total to $102M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-20 Startup

A look at Neuralink and other brain-computer interface startups, as the number of people with brain implants is set to double from ~100 in the next 12 months (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-19 Startup

Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to invest in PsiQuantum, a startup looking to build quantum computers that is in the process of raising $750M+ (www.theinformation.com)
2025-5-19 Startup Nvidia Quantum

Venture Intelligence: Indian deep tech startups have raised $4.7B since 2014, accounting for just 3.2% of Indian startup funding, signaling a sector-wide crunch (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-5-18 India Startup Intelligence

Chinese startups are highlighting their roots instead of downplaying them as they grow overseas, fueled by the success of Chinese social media apps and DeepSeek (restofworld.org)
2025-5-18 China Startup

Sources: Indian investment app Groww agrees to acquire wealthtech startup Fisdom in an all-cash deal, valuing Fisdom at $140M to $160M; Fisdom had raised ~$48M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-5-17 India Startup

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