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Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China (www.theinformation.com)
2025-7-12 China Startup

Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-source model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-12 China Startup AI

Sources: Alibaba-backed Chinese AI startup Zhipu plans to raise ~$300M in an IPO in Hong Kong, after previously considering listing in mainland China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-11 China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba Startup AI

Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-11 Startup AI Mathematics

Foundation EGI, an “engineering general intelligence” startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks, raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital (siliconangle.com)
2025-7-11 Startup Intelligence

OpenAI closes its nearly $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products after a trademark lawsuit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada, saying Delaware's Court of Chancery “can at times appear biased against technology startup founders” (a16z.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

OpenAI officially closes its ~$6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products, after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

ServiceUp, a vehicle repair process automation startup, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to nearly $70M (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-7-9 Startup

The Startup-Filled Coder 'Village' at the Heart of China's AI Frenzy (slashdot.org)
2025-7-7 China Startup AI

An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data shows that in 2025 so far at least 36 tech startups hit a $1B+ valuation, including seven in June and six in May (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-7 Startup

Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, has become a hub for Chinese AI startups, with the suburb Liangzhu emerging as a hotspot for coders in their 20s and 30s (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-7 China Alibaba Startup AI

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (www.cnbc.com)
2025-7-6 Tax Startup

Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-6 Startup

PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded (www.axios.com)
2025-7-5 Startup AI

Daniel Gross is leaving Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-4 Startup AI

Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI; Meta reportedly poached previous CEO Daniel Gross (www.cnbc.com)
2025-7-4 Startup AI

Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says “works at 3-4 startups at the same time” and has “been preying on YC companies and more” (www.ndtv.com)
2025-7-3 Startup

Grammarly to acquire email startup Superhuman in AI platform push (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-2 Startup AI

Sources: Sweden-based AI-powered app builder Lovable is set to raise $150M+ led by Accel at a ~$1.8B valuation, as investors rush to back “vibe coding” startups (t.co)
2025-7-2 Startup AI Sweden

Ambrook, a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers, raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field (fortune.com)
2025-7-2 Startup

Sources: Palmer Luckey is preparing to launch Erebor, a US bank backed by Joe Lonsdale and other tech investors to serve startups, including crypto businesses (t.co)
2025-7-2 Startup

Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-1 Startup AI

X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-1 Startup Entrepreneur

A look at the rise of $5B+ unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B+ club in H1 2025 (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-7-1 Startup

OpenAI hires team behind startup Crossing Minds as AI talent war heats up (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-1 Startup AI

PitchBook: Australian startups raised $3.4B in 2024, down from 2021's $6.5B peak; 39% of early-stage capital in Australia came from overseas vs. 21% in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-30 Australia Startup

Critical minerals aren't a startup game: Australia's junior miners must grow up (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-6-30 Australia Startup

Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-30 Startup AI

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (tech.eu)
2025-6-29 Startup Switzerland

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