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Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” (www.cnbc.com)
11 days ago Startup

Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Startup AI Climate

African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric bikes, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Startup Africa

Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by 2028 end (www.cnbc.com)
12 days ago Europe Startup AI London

US Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Startups For Nuclear Fuel (hardware.slashdot.org)
14 days ago Startup

AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (www.theverge.com)
14 days ago Startup AI Robot

EY-Parthenon: VC funding for Singapore startups fell 34% YoY to $4.6B in 2025, with AI startups accounting for 42.8% of the 472 deals, raising $1.4B, up 28% YoY (www.dealstreetasia.com)
15 days ago Startup AI Singapore

Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Startup AI Insurance

Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago Europe Startup London Paris

As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, startups on the continent are pivoting to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local VC firms (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Startup AI Africa

AI coding startup Cognition AI raised more than $1B at a $26B valuation, and says its revenue run rate has increased to $492M from $37M in May 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Startup Airbnb

Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (www.axios.com)
17 days ago Startup AI

How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years (www.wired.com)
17 days ago Startup AI chatbot

Zero2IPO Research: Chinese AI startups raised $16.2B in Q1 2026, up 185% YoY, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai, and MiniMax (www.scmp.com)
21 days ago China Startup AI

Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU (tech.eu)
22 days ago Startup AI

Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race (www.businessinsider.com)
22 days ago Microsoft Startup AI

Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
23 days ago Startup

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (www.theinformation.com)
24 days ago Startup Equity

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more (www.ft.com)
24 days ago Startup AI

On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised $110M co-led by Sequoia, Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, valuing it at $1B (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago Startup Manufacturing

Sources: Chinese AI startup Moonshot told investors it would revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for a Hong Kong IPO and comply with Beijing's rules (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Quebec-based telecom software startup Gaiia raised a CA$54.8M Series B led by JMI Equity, bringing its total funding to ~CA$90M from backers including YC (betakit.com)
26 days ago Startup Quebec Equity

AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
26 days ago Startup AI

Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised $30M at a $1.4B valuation (www.theglobeandmail.com)
28 days ago Startup Quantum

A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3B, and added $40M in ARR in Q2 (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago Startup AI

Microsoft Edge to stop loading cleartext passwords in memory on startup (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
28 days ago Microsoft Startup

Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash (www.calcalistech.com)
29 days ago Israel Startup AI Browser

London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (www.ft.com)
29 days ago Startup AI London

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