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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

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

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