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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

Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B+ valuation, following a ~$170M Series C (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Startup

Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 Startup

Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-14 Startup

A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (colossus.com)
2026-4-14 Startup

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-14 Startup

Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, vs. $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-14 Startup

Neuroscientist's AI-Powered Startup Aims To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-13 Startup AI

Neuroscientist' AI-Powered Startup AIms To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-13 Startup AI

Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (www.ft.com)
2026-4-11 Trump Startup AI

How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (www.wired.com)
2026-4-10 Germany Startup AI

A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-9 Startup

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI

Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI Sony

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