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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)
2026-5-1 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)
2026-4-30 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)
2026-4-29 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)
2026-4-29 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)
2026-4-29 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)
2026-4-29 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)
2026-4-28 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)
2026-4-28 Startup

China Blocks Meta's $2 Billion Takeover of AI Startup Manus (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-28 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)
2026-4-27 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)
2026-4-27 Energy Startup Solar

Two Hot Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 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)
2026-4-27 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)
2026-4-27 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)
2026-4-25 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)
2026-4-24 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

Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 Startup AI Slack

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-18 Startup

A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has $100B AUM, with $26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-18 Startup AI

AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI Slack

The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (www.wired.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI

Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI

Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-16 Korea Startup

Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16 Startup Asset

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-15 Startup London AMD

Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Startup

Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to $27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising $16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-15 China India Asia Startup

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