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Turkish startup Sipay, which bills itself as “Stripe for emerging markets”, raised a $78M Series B at an $875M valuation to expand outside of Turkey (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Startup

Interviews with 40 sources describe concerns about Helsing, Europe's most valuable defense tech startup, including whether it can live up to its €5B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-8 Europe Startup

OpenAI plans to acquire Jony Ive's AI hardware startup for $500 million: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-4-8 Startup AI

Emacs Startup Time Doesn't Matter (batsov.com)
2025-4-8 Emacs Startup

The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has raised $700M+ to date, seemingly exaggerated its deployment of robots at BMW in interviews and posts (fortune.com)
2025-4-8 Startup AI Robot

Miami-based remittance startup Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins and handled $1B+ in money transfers via WhatsApp in 2024, raised a $75M Series B led by QED (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-8 Startup WhatsApp

Sources: the board of directors of clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle let its CEO remain after fraud allegations and took months to warn investors (www.axios.com)
2025-4-8 Startup

SignalFire raised a $1B+ fund to bet on early-stage AI startups, taking its AUM to $3B, and plans to use AI to spot market trends to help portfolio companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-7 Startup AI

Source: AI coding startup Cursor, which has helped permeate “vibe coding”, hit 1M+ DAUs in March 2025, driven largely by word-of-mouth growth (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-7 Startup AI

Sources: OpenAI recently discussed acquiring io Products, a startup Sam Altman has been working on with Jony Ive to develop an AI-powered device, for $500M+ (www.theinformation.com)
2025-4-7 Startup AI

A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-4-6 Startup

Sources: enterprise AI search startup Glean is in talks to raise hundreds of millions, including money to buy employee shares, at an estimated ~$7B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2025-4-5 Startup AI

Nasscom-Zinnov: Indian tech startup funding surged 23% YoY to $7.4B in 2024, with the number of deals up 27% YoY and newly founded startups more than doubling (www.moneycontrol.com)
2025-4-4 India Startup

AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-4 Startup AI

In national security, governments still struggle to work with startups (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-4-3 Startup

India Set For $100 Billion Startup IPO Surge By 2027 (slashdot.org)
2025-4-3 India IPO Startup

Indian investment bank The Rainmaker Group says 36+ Indian tech startups like Flipkart and PhonePe with a combined $100B valuation are set to go public by 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-2 India Startup

Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, following the acquisition of German AI and IoT company Edge Impulse in early March (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2 IoT Germany Startup AI Vietnam

Sources: AI coding startup Replit is in talks with investors to raise about $200M at a $3B valuation, almost triple its last valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-2 Startup AI

Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics to move data in chips via light, unveils an interposer and chiplet for AI chips; the startup has raised $850M so far (www.reuters.com)
2025-4-1 Startup AI

USPTO suspended xAI's Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims rights to “Grok” (www.wired.com)
2025-4-1 Startup

'No Longer Think You Should Learn To Code,' Says CEO of AI Coding Startup (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-4-1 Startup AI

Cerebras says it has resolved “all open issues” with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi's G42 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-1 IPO Startup AI

Chinese AI startup Zhipu, which secured three rounds of government-backed funding in March 2025, launches a free AI agent, intensifying the domestic AI race (www.reuters.com)
2025-3-31 China Startup AI

Chinese startup Manus, whose AI agent service is still in the beta testing phase, announces a $39/month Manus Starter plan and an upgraded $199/month Pro tier (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-31 China Startup AI

This startup wants to make online education more personalised with avatars and AI (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-30 Startup AI Education

Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman says he will become partner emeritus by the end of 2025 and focus on launching his own startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-30 Fintech Startup

How AI tools are causing problems and sowing distrust in both job hunting and hiring; a Polish cybersecurity startup says it almost hired a deepfake candidate (wapo.st)
2025-3-30 Startup AI Poland

A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-30 Startup Drone Walmart

Gensol's financial woes have cast doubt on the future of BluSmart, an Indian EV ride-hailing startup founded by Gensol's promoters, Anmol Jaggi and Puneet Jaggi (inc42.com)
2025-3-29 India Startup

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