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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

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

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