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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

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-8 Startup

Coupa, a Thoma Bravo-owned supply chain tech company, acquires procurement tech startup Scoutbee, with the deal expected to close by the end of October (www.axios.com)
2025-10-7 Startup

PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI startups so far in 2025, with founders saying US investors better fit the sector's high upfront costs (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-6 Europe Startup AI

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-6 Startup

PitchBook: VCs have invested $192.7B in AI startups so far this year, putting 2025 on track to be the first year when 50%+ of VC funding goes to the AI industry (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-5 Startup AI

Q&A with iRobot founder Rodney Brooks on his startup Robust.AI, which builds warehouse robots, unrealistic expectations around humanoid robots and AI, and more (crazystupidtech.com)
2025-10-5 Startup AI Robot

Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-4 Startup AI

OpenAI Becomes World's Most Valuable Startup After $500 Billion Valuation (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-4 Startup

AI inference chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to establish 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-4 Startup AI

AI chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to break ground on 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-3 Startup AI

a16z releases a report, with Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies startups pay for; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-3 Startup AI

Uber acquihires Belgian data labeling startup Segments.ai to expand its lidar data labeling capabilities; its founders and staff will join Uber AI Solutions (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-3 Uber Startup AI Belgium

OpenAI surpasses SpaceX as world's most valuable startup (www.rt.com)
2025-10-3 Startup SpaceX

A look at a growing number of medical startups that are using robots and AI to fertilize embryos through IVF, helping bring at least 20 babies to term (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-10-2 Startup AI Robot

Source: OpenAI completed a secondary sale letting staff sell ~$6.6B in shares at a $500B valuation, making it the world's most valuable startup ahead of SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-2 Startup SpaceX

London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale closed a $433M pre-Series C SAFE round from Nvidia, Nokia, Dell, and others, after raising a $1.1B Series B on Sept. 25 (tech.eu)
2025-10-2 Startup Nvidia London Nokia

Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a valuation of €400M in a 2021 funding round (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Startup

Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defense tech investors and startups like Helsing, applying a profit-driven model to Europe's military buildup (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-1 Russia Europe Startup Ukraine

Swedish AI startups Lovable, Legora, and Sana, set to be acquired by Workday, highlight a key dilemma in Europe's tech scene: sell out or bet on becoming huge (t.co)
2025-10-1 Europe Startup AI Sweden

Charlie Javice Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Fraudulent Sale of Her Startup To JPMorgan (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-1 Startup JPMorgan

Disney sent a cease-and-desist to Character.AI for misusing its characters in harmful ways, including sexual exploitation; the startup removed Disney characters (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 Startup AI

Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Startup AI Nvidia

Automated financial advisor startup Wealthfront files publicly for an IPO and reports net income of $60.7M on revenue of $175.6M in H1 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 IPO Startup

Marissa Mayer is dissolving AI startup Sunshine, founded in 2018, and sells its assets to her new company Dazzle, which sources say is making an AI assistant (www.wired.com)
2025-9-29 Startup AI Asset

VCs say some AI startups, under pressure to show rapid ARR growth, are using questionable accounting practices like counting one-time deals as recurring revenue (fortune.com)
2025-9-29 Startup AI

Experts warn that Nvidia's large investments in data centers and startups, almost like a stimulus program, could be artificially inflating demand for its GPUs (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-28 Startup Nvidia

A look at the implosion of CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization startup whose ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is accused of swindling investors out of $300M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-28 Startup

Manas AI, the AI drug discovery startup founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised a $26M seed extension after a $24.6M seed in January (www.finsmes.com)
2025-9-28 Startup AI

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