Startup

A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day, which showcased 160 companies, including several creating tools to enhance other companies' AI agents (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-15 Startup AI

World's 1st AI-generated paper by Japanese startup Sakana passes peer-review (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-13 Japan Startup AI

A look at UK-based startup accelerator Founders Factory, which has invested in 300+ startups; KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024 (on.ft.com)
2025-3-13 Startup KPMG

A look at Paris-based incubator Station F, which includes Hugging Face as alumni and whose startups raised €1B+ for three straight years, up from €250M in 2017 (on.ft.com)
2025-3-13 Startup Paris

Analysis: the UK has 29 of Europe's top 150 startup hubs, followed by Germany with 19; Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which has incubated 1K+ companies, ranks on top (on.ft.com)
2025-3-13 Germany Europe Startup Munich

Ernst & Young: German startups raised ~€7B across 755 deals in 2024, up from ~€6B across 861 deals in 2023, but far below the peak of over €17B in 2021 (on.ft.com)
2025-3-13 Germany Startup

Food delivery startup Wonder acquires the media company Tastemade, sources say for around $90M, the latest step in its effort to create a mealtime “super app” (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-13 Startup

Estonian startups aim to turn its thriving tech sector into a military-industrial complex, including making autonomous drones, as Europe boosts defense spending (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-12 Europe Startup Drone

Bengaluru is becoming an AI talent hub as overseas startups compete with Big Tech; Bain & Co predicts India's AI talent gap will reach 1M workers by 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-12 India Startup AI

OpenAI launches new developer tools as Chinese AI startups gain ground (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-12 China Startup AI

Inside Google's investment in the AI startup Anthropic (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-12 Google Startup AI

Israeli startup Sola, which offers a low-code platform to build cybersecurity apps, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed co-led by S Capital and Mike Moritz (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-12 Israel Startup

Israeli-US cybersecurity startup Cybereason raised $120M led by SoftBank, Vision Fund 2, and Liberty; its now ex-CEO said in a lawsuit it was close to bankrupt (en.globes.co.il)
2025-3-11 Israel Startup

Sources: Kirkland-based enterprise cybersecurity startup Chainguard is in talks to raise $350M led by Kleiner at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B in July 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-11 Startup

Eric Schmidt becomes CEO of Relativity Space; sources: he made a significant investment in the rocket-building startup to take a controlling stake (www.nytimes.com)
2025-3-11 Startup

PitchBook: the AI frenzy has led to the fastest investment pace since 2021, with $30B+ invested into startups so far this quarter and $50B more in the works (www.ft.com)
2025-3-10 Startup AI

Investors are turning to “AI wrappers”, startups that leverage existing LLMs by other developers to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-8 Startup AI

Google co-founder Larry Page's new startup aims to build AI for product manufacturing: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-7 Google Startup AI Manufacturing

San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-7 Startup AI Autonomous Car

A Quarter of Startups in YC's Current Cohort Have Codebases That Are Almost Entirely AI-Generated (slashdot.org)
2025-3-7 Startup AI

Indian SaaS hiring platform Darwinbox raised $140M co-led by KKR and Partners Group, taking its total funding to $270M; the startup had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 SaaS India Startup

Builder.ai CEO Sachin Dev Duggal says he is stepping down from the London-based startup, which has raised $450M to use AI to develop apps and websites (t.co)
2025-3-4 Startup AI London

New York-based corporate payments startup Ramp hit a $13B valuation in a $150M share sale to GIC, Stripes, Thrive, and others, up from $7.65B in April 2024 (t.co)
2025-3-3 Startup New York

How Anthropic monitoring its AI models playing Pokémon games is helping the startup's researchers hone their thinking around the development of its agentic tech (www.theinformation.com)
2025-3-3 Startup AI

Mastercard withdrew its commitment to invest $100M in 54 Collective, a top VC firm in Africa, where startup funding fell from $4.6B in 2022 to $2.2B in 2024 (restofworld.org)
2025-3-2 Startup Africa

Teleperformance, the world's largest call center operator, rolls out AI tech by startup Sanas to soften English-speaking Indian workers' accents in real time (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-1 India Startup AI

Is npm Enough? Why Startups Are Coming After This JavaScript Package Registry (it.slashdot.org)
2025-2-28 Startup

Polish startup Nomagic, which makes robotic arms for logistics operations, raised a $44M Series B led by the EBRD, taking its total funding to ~$74M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Startup Robot Poland Logistics

German Startup Wins Accolade For Its Fusion Reactor Design (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-2-27 Germany Startup

Startup PsiQuantum says it is making millions of quantum computing chips (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-27 Startup Quantum

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