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Silicon Valley Defense Group: the US federal government spent $22B on tech from the top 100 national security startups, a paltry sum and far below VC investment (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-11 Startup

Remittance startup Nala, which lets users in the EU, UK, and US send money to 11 African markets, raised a $40M Series A led by Acrew, after a $10M seed in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-9 Startup Africa

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington announce Thrive AI Health, a new startup backed by OpenAI and Thrive Global to build a “hyper-personalized AI health coach” (time.com)
2024-7-9 Startup AI

Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the startup's history, expanding globally, its 4,500 headcount, moderation, Adobe, growing enterprise customers, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-7-9 Startup Adobe

UK Tech Overtakes China as World's Second Largest Country for Startup Funding Raised (news.slashdot.org)
2024-7-8 China Startup

Investors Pour $27.1 Billion into AI Startups, Defying a Downturn (slashdot.org)
2024-7-7 Startup AI

A look at a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator, a Y Combinator-style program that provides $500K in funding and 10 weeks of coaching, most recently in London (www.wired.com)
2024-7-4 Startup London Y Combinator

A look at enterprise browser startups like Island and Here, which aim to provide built-in browser security controls and better app integrations needed for work (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-4 Startup Browser

Investors pour $27.1 billion into Artificial Intelligence startups, defying a downturn (indianexpress.com)
2024-7-4 Startup AI Intelligence

Alphabet winds down agriculture startup Mineral, which became an independent subsidiary in 2023, and is licensing some of its tech to berry producer Driscoll's (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-3 Startup Alphabet

PitchBook: US startups raised $56B in Q2 2024, up 57% YoY and the highest three-month haul in two years; AI startups raised $27.1B, nearly half of the total (www.nytimes.com)
2024-7-3 Startup AI

British Startup Nyobolt Demos 4-Minute Battery Charging For EVs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2024-7-3 U.K. Startup Battery

Sources: Magic, a US startup developing AI models for coding tasks, is in talks to raise $200M+ at a $1.5B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2024-7-3 Startup AI

Source: generative AI video startup Runway is in talks to raise $450M at about a $4B valuation, with General Atlantic in talks to lead the round (www.theinformation.com)
2024-7-3 Startup AI

Singapore is emerging as a destination for Chinese AI startups due to less stringent AI regulations and access to Nvidia's latest chips amid US chips ban (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-1 China Startup AI Singapore Ban Nvidia

Nigeria's food delivery startups are attracting investors optimistic about the growing demand in a market that is expected to double to $2.4B over eight years (t.co)
2024-7-1 Startup Nigeria

Kleiner Perkins has raised more than $2B for two new funds: $825M for a fund targeting young startups and $1.2B for a later-stage fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-6-29 Startup

AWS selects 24 space tech startups to be part of first-ever India Space Accelerator programme (indianexpress.com)
2024-6-28 India Startup

US Startup To Supply 320 MW Geothermal Energy To Power 350,000 Homes In California (hardware.slashdot.org)
2024-6-28 Energy Startup California

AI chatbot startup Character.AI launches new calls feature (indianexpress.com)
2024-6-28 Startup AI chatbot

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so (www.wired.com)
2024-6-28 Amazon Startup AI

Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, a special envoy to Techleap startup accelerator, says Europe risks falling behind the US and China by over-regulating AI (www.cnbc.com)
2024-6-26 China Europe Startup AI Netherlands

The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-26 Startup AI

A look at the privacy concerns surrounding apps targeting women's health; PitchBook: femtech startups raised almost $4.9B between March 2021 and March 2024 (t.co)
2024-6-25 Startup

Prosus Writes Down $22 Billion Education Startup Byju's To Zero (news.slashdot.org)
2024-6-25 Startup Education

Sources describe Apple's efforts to fully automate iPhone assembly lines, helping it reduce its reliance on China, including by buying startups like DarwinAI (www.theinformation.com)
2024-6-24 China iPhone Startup Apple

Turkish grocery delivery startup Getir agrees to a restructuring that will see Mubadala lead a $250M injection and acquire control of Getir's grocery operations (t.co)
2024-6-24 Startup

Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent (www.politico.com)
2024-6-24 Startup AI Y Combinator California

Foundation Honoring 'Star Trek' Creator Offers $1M Prize for AI Startup Benefiting Humanity (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2024-6-24 Startup AI

OpenAI's First Acquisition Is Enterprise Data Startup 'Rockset' (slashdot.org)
2024-6-22 Startup

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