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Bengaluru-based FirstClub, a grocery delivery startup prioritizing quality over speed, raised a $23M Series A led by Accel and RTP Global at a $120M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 Startup

Bengaluru startup Upliance AI launches next-gen smart cooking device priced at Rs 39,999 (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-4 Startup AI

Finnish quantum computing startup IQM raised a $320M Series B led by Ten Eleven at a $1B+ valuation, and plans a US expansion and to scale its data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-3 Startup Finland Quantum

AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-3 Startup AI

Nvidia acquires Solver, a three-year-old AI coding agent startup formerly known as Laredo Labs, which had raised $8M from Radical Ventures and other investors (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-3 Startup AI Nvidia

OpenAI To Acquire Product Testing Startup Statsig, Appoints CTO of Applications (slashdot.org)
2025-9-3 Startup

An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (fortune.com)
2025-9-1 Interview Startup

Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-1 India Mobile Startup

AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-31 Startup AI Salesforce CRM

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-28 Startup Netherlands

As ‘vibe coding' becomes Silicon Valley's latest catchphrase, Bengaluru startup promises enterprise app development in minutes (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-28 Startup

Sources: cloud startup Vercel is raising hundreds of millions of dollars led by Accel at a valuation of about $9B, up from about $3B in a round last year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-28 Startup

A profile of Egune AI, a startup building LLMs for the Mongolian language, as it navigates geopolitics, a lack of resources, and the nascent local tech scene (restofworld.org)
2025-8-27 Startup AI

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup “copied and stored” their content without permission (t.co)
2025-8-26 Japan Startup AI Tokyo

AI infrastructure provider Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-8-24 Israel Startup AI

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney, to license the startup's “aesthetic technology” for Meta's future models and products (x.com)
2025-8-23 Startup

Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-22 Google Startup

Autonomous driving tech startup Nuro closed its $203M Series E at a $6B valuation, adding $97M from Uber, Nvidia, and others to April's $106M tranche (t.co)
2025-8-21 Uber Startup Nvidia

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek releases upgraded model with domestic chip support (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-21 China Startup AI

Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, is launching “always-on” AI glasses for $249 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Startup AI Ban Facial Recognition

Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus and an earlier product called Monica, says its annual revenue run rate has hit $90M, with Manus contributing the most (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-20 Startup

San Francisco Car Rental Startup Kyte, Once Seen as Hertz Rival, Shuts Down (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 Startup San Francisco

Sources: Anthropic asked Menlo to use the VC firm's own capital for investment in the startup and not an SPV, as Menlo did in a previous funding round (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-19 Startup

Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches AI startup Parallel to build ‘web for machines' (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-18 Startup AI Twitter

PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds (fortune.com)
2025-8-17 Startup AI

Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-17 Startup AI

A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks (www.forbes.com)
2025-8-16 Startup

Jump, a SaaS startup founded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore for managing sports ticketing and fan experiences, raised a $23M Series A at a $100M+ valuation (www.forbes.com)
2025-8-16 SaaS Startup

Sam Altman says OpenAI “totally screwed up some things” on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-15 Startup

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-15 Startup

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