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Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-27 Startup

Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-27 Startup

Several UK consultants have left large firms to start AI consultancy startups, as growth in the country's AI consulting sector outpaces the broader market (www.ft.com)
2026-2-26 Startup AI

London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025 (fortune.com)
2026-2-26 Startup London

A look at Motif Technologies and Upstage, South Korean AI startups competing with SK Group and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-25 Korea Startup AI

London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors (www.ft.com)
2026-2-25 Startup London Nissan

David Luan, the head of Amazon's AGI lab, is leaving the company less than two years after he joined through an acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-25 Amazon Startup

MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's chip business, raised $500M+ led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to compete with Nvidia (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-25 Google Startup AI Nvidia

Dutch startup Axelera AI, which builds power-efficient AI inference chips, raised $250M+ led by Innovation Industries, with investment from BlackRock and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-24 Startup AI Netherlands

Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-24 Startup AI

A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-23 China Startup

Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-20 Startup AI Toronto

Digital savings startup Vestwell raised a $385M Series E co-led by Blue Owl and Sixth Street, after a $125M Series D in 2023, taking its total funding to $660M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-2-19 Startup

A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-18 China Startup Shanghai

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 India Startup AI

Nvidia says it is working with Peak XV and other VC firms in India to fund AI startups; over 4,000 Indian AI startups have joined its global startup program (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-18 India Startup AI Nvidia

Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B+ valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-18 Startup AI

Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitates investments starting at ~$136 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 Startup Dubai

Sources: Moonshot, the Chinese startup behind Kimi chatbot, is targeting a $10B valuation in a funding round expansion after securing $500M at a $4.3B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 China Startup chatbot

A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17 India Startup

A look at Anti Fund, a small VC firm cofounded by YouTuber Jake Paul that has gained access to hot rounds in startups like OpenAI, Anduril, Polymarket, and Ramp (fortune.com)
2026-2-16 Startup YouTuber

India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 India Startup AI Equity

Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% (resiliencemedia.co)
2026-2-15 Europe Startup AI

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-14 China India Alibaba Startup

PitchBook estimates that 25%+ of VC-backed unicorns have become “undercorns,” startups once valued at $1B or more by VCs but now valued below that threshold (www.axios.com)
2026-2-14 Startup

A look at Higgsfield, an AI video startup that grew to $300M ARR within 11 months, as it faces a creator backlash over aggressive and shocking marketing tactics (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-13 Startup AI

Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking a taboo by investing in competing startups, as the AI race reshapes venture capital (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Startup AI

Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+ (www.scmp.com)
2026-2-12 Startup AI chatbot

Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Google Startup Robot

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was “north of $400M”, up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end (t.co)
2026-2-11 Startup

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