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An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who was promoted to president of General Catalyst in January, about investing in European tech and defense startups (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Europe Interview Startup

India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago India Tax Startup

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $150M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-7 Intel Startup AI Equity

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Startup Coinbase

AI interpretability startup Goodfire raised a $150M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, taking its total funding to $209M, and is working on retraining AI models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-6 Startup AI

AI accounting startup Accrual, incubated by General Catalyst, emerges from stealth and raised $75M; Accrual is part of General Catalyst's $1.5B Creation fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5 Startup AI

AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-5 Startup AI

Sources: Reno-based chip startup Positron raised a $230M Series B from the QIA and others to build high-speed memory chips, taking its total raised to $300M+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-4 Startup

An interview with Kai-Fu Lee on his startup 01.ai, which builds agentic AI tools for companies, why he thinks China will beat the US in consumer AI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-2-4 China Interview Startup AI

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered “family care system”, currently in private testing (www.axios.com)
2026-2-3 Startup AI

How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M+, helped move money in and out of Venezuela and now faces cutoffs from banks and payment networks (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 Startup Venezuela

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-2 Startup Robot Intelligence

A look at South Park Commons, the VC firm behind a startup community focusing on idea exploration over immediate business plans, as it aims to raise $500M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-31 Startup

Checkbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal intake, raised a $23M Series A led by Touring Capital; Checkbox has 100+ clients, including SAP and PepsiCo (www.forbes.com.au)
2026-1-31 Startup AI

The Q.ai acquisition could be Apple's second-largest ever and marks founder Aviad Maizels' second exit to Apple, which bought his startup PrimeSense in 2013 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-30 Startup AI Apple

A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-1-30 China Google Startup AI San Francisco

OpenAI has hired 7+ employees from AI coding startup Cline, including Nik Pash, who left Cline after posting “imagine the smell” on X regarding an xAI hackathon (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-30 Startup AI

Apple's Second-Biggest Acquisition Ever Is a Startup That Interprets Silent Speech (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 Startup Apple

US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 Startup AI

Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 Google Startup Battery

AI sales startup Clay launches its second employee tender offer in under nine months, valuing it at $5B, up from $3.1B in August and $1.5B in its May 2025 offer (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-29 Startup AI

Toronto-based self-driving truck startup Waabi raised a $750M Series C led by Khosla and G2 and partners with Uber, which can invest $250M based on performance (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28 Uber Startup Toronto

Israeli startup Memcyco, which offers real-time phishing and account takeover protection, raised a $37M Series A led by NAventures and others (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-28 Israel Startup

Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, saying K2.5 can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-27 China Startup

StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B+ (www.dealstreetasia.com)
2026-1-27 China Startup AI OPPO

London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-1-26 Startup AI London

Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-26 Startup SpaceX

Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-1-23 Startup

Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US are a “fairy tale,” and China's open-source tech is “probably stressing” US CEOs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 China Startup AI

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-23 Startup Robot Intelligence Paris

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