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Source: SoftBank held talks about acquiring Agility Robotics for $900M+ before participating in Agility's funding round valuing the startup at $1.75B pre-money (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-24 Startup Robot

Data center startup Crusoe raised $1.4B led by Mubadala and Valor, more than tripling its valuation to $10B+ in one year and taking its total funding to $3.9B (www.ft.com)
2025-10-24 Startup

Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-24 Startup

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-23 China Hong Kong IPO Startup

Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-23 Europe Startup

The NHL reaches multiyear licensing agreements with prediction market startups Kalshi and Polymarket, the first major US league to allow use of its trademarks (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-22 Startup

Japanese regulators' plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of startup buyouts in Japan, while IPOs slump (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-22 Japan IPO Startup Tokyo

Findem, an AI-powered talent acquisition startup, raised $51M in equity and debt, including a $36M Series C led by SLW, taking its total funding to $105M (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-10-22 Startup AI Equity

Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B+ yearly transactions (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-21 Startup

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (restofworld.org)
2025-10-21 Japan Startup AI Robot

OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-20 Startup AI Nvidia

Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
2025-10-18 Startup AI Education

Google DeepMind Partners With Fusion Startup (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 Google Startup

Sources: OpenAI is proposing a “sign in with ChatGPT” feature for websites, letting startups charge OpenAI model usage costs to users' ChatGPT capacity limits (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-17 Startup

HR software startup Deel raised $300M led by Ribbit Capital at a $17B valuation, up from $12.6B earlier in 2025, and says revenue crossed $100M in September (t.co)
2025-10-16 Startup

Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raised $450M from Goodwater, General Catalyst, and others at a $7B valuation, as it prepares for an IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 IPO Startup

Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M+ paid subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16 India Startup

Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 Australia Energy Startup AI Nvidia Renewable

Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets (www.ft.com)
2025-10-16 Startup AI

Nvidia and AI coding startup Poolside plan a 500-acre data center on a Texas ranch powered by natural gas; sources: Poolside is raising $2B at a $14B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-16 Startup AI Nvidia Texas

UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal (t.co)
2025-10-15 Microsoft Startup Nvidia Texas Portugal

How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-15 India Startup AI

Handshake CEO Garrett Lord says the startup hit $100M in ARR in eight months after a “refounding” to focus on AI, and forecasts $300M in ARR by end of 2025 (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2025-10-15 Startup AI

Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have launched since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with VC funding reaching $1.5B this year, mostly for drone tech (www.ft.com)
2025-10-14 Russia Europe Startup Drone Ukraine

Mumbai-based wealth management startup Dezerv raised a ~$40M Series C co-led by Premji Invest and Accel's Global Growth Fund, taking its total funding to ~$100M (entrackr.com)
2025-10-14 Startup

Data integration startup Fivetran and data management startup dbt Labs announce a merger in an all-stock deal; Fivetran CEO will be CEO of the combined company (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-14 Startup

Sources: London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve is in early stage talks with Microsoft and SoftBank to raise between $1B and $2B, valuing it at ~$8B (t.co)
2025-10-13 Microsoft Startup London

Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-11 Startup AI Apple

Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet (fortune.com)
2025-10-10 Startup Coinbase

Chicago-based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera and says it supports stablecoin-powered payments in 170+ countries (www.coindesk.com)
2025-10-9 Startup

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