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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

Sources: AI image generation startup Black Forest Labs is exploring raising $200M-$300M at a $4B valuation, after a prior undisclosed round at a $1B valuation (t.co)
2025-9-28 Startup AI

Google agrees to guarantee $1.4B of AI computing startup Fluidstack's $3B, 10-year agreement with Cipher Mining and gets the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-27 Google Startup AI

Swiss microfluidic chip-cooling tech startup Corintis raised a $24M Series A, a source says at a $400M valuation, and announces adding Lip-Bu Tan to its board (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-27 Startup Switzerland

Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine (venturebeat.com)
2025-9-27 Startup

Inside Pangyo Techno Valley, South Korea's “Silicon Valley” that is home to 1,800+ startups, R&D centers, and global tech firms, as it strives for global impact (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-26 Korea Startup

Factory, which makes AI agents called “droids” to assist in coding, raised $50M at a $300M valuation; AI coding startups raised $7.5B+ in the past three months (t.co)
2025-9-26 Startup AI

London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale raised a $1.1B Series B led by Aker, with Nvidia participating; Aker says it is investing $285M for a 9.3% stake (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-25 Startup Nvidia London

DealStreetAsia: VC funding in Indonesian startups fell to just $80M in H1 2025 from $200M a year earlier, as startups face fallout from corruption scandals (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-25 Startup Indonesia

Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-9-24 India Startup

VCs court top AI startups with preempted rounds and perks like private jets; PitchBook: US AI startups raised $200B in 2025, with 41% going to just 10 companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-24 Startup AI

Privacy startup Duality says it has developed a private LLM inference framework that uses fully homomorphic encryption to let LLMs answer encrypted prompts (spectrum.ieee.org)
2025-9-24 Startup

A look at London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale, which landed a $500M investment from Nvidia and aims to scale up to 300K GPUs globally, on par with CoreWeave (www.forbes.com)
2025-9-24 Startup Nvidia London

Pharmacy benefit management startup Capital Rx raised $400M, including a $252M Series F; it has raised $607M+ to date and was valued at $3.25B pre-Series F (www.axios.com)
2025-9-23 Startup

Sources: humanoid robotics startup 1X is seeking to raise up to $1B at a $10B+ valuation, more than 12x its previous valuation from a January financing (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-23 Startup Robot

UK-based startup Mantic ranked #8 in the Metaculus forecasting cup that asks entrants to predict 60 geopolitical events, the first time an AI made the top 10 (time.com)
2025-9-22 Startup AI

A review of Tim Berners-Lee's new book This is for Everyone, while his startup Inrupt, which aims to commercialize the Solid web protocol, struggles to scale (t.co)
2025-9-22 Startup

Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-21 Google Startup AI

VCs and founders warn that the $100K fee will make H-1B sponsorship prohibitively expensive for startups, not Big Tech, and drive talent outside the US (www.geekwire.com)
2025-9-21 Startup H1B

Sources: Nvidia is in advanced discussions to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a £2B pledge for UK startups; Wayve is evaluating (t.co)
2025-9-20 Startup Nvidia Autonomous Car

Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a broader £2B funding pledge in UK startups (www.ft.com)
2025-9-19 Startup Nvidia Autonomous Car

A look at China's brain-computer interface industry as startups like BrainCo grow with state support; CCID says the sector is worth $450M, growing 20% annually (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-19 China Startup

Sources: Nvidia spent more than $900M to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the AI hardware startup and to license the company's technology (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-19 Startup AI Nvidia

British renewable energy startup Octopus Energy spins off its AI arm, Kraken, in what could create a stand-alone entity worth $15B (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-19 U.K. Energy Startup AI Renewable

‘We back genuine AI startups, not wrappers': Google accelerator programme lead (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-18 Google Startup AI

Foxmont and BCG report: Philippine startups raised a record $1.12B in 2024, up 16.7% YoY, with foreign investment rising to 52.5%, but regulatory hurdles remain (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-17 Startup Philippines

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