#Startups

Indian venture capital has quietly displaced Silicon Valley in its own backyard. Only one American VC made India's top 10 investor list last year. Here's why that matters beyond India.

E-commerce fintech Parker filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 7, despite raising over $200M. The YC-backed startup's abrupt shutdown left small business customers scrambling—and exposed the fragility of vertical fintech models.

Factory just raised $150M at a $1.5B valuation to build AI coding agents for enterprises. In a market already crowded with Cursor, Claude Code, and Cognition, investors say there's still room. Here's why that bet might make sense — and why it might not.

Two ex-Apple engineers built an AI puck that only listens when you press it. At $179, Button is a deliberate bet that dedicated AI hardware beats the Swiss Army knife approach of smartphones.

SXSW turns 40 and reinvents itself with new badges, decentralized venues, and a reservation system. But who's actually getting value — and who's getting left out?

Iran has fired 1,700+ drones and 360 missiles at the UAE in a month. Dubai's expat tech community isn't leaving — and some are doubling down. What this tells us about geopolitical risk pricing in 2026.

Gimlet Labs just raised $80M to build software that splits AI workloads across every chip type simultaneously. The pitch: 10x efficiency without buying new hardware.

Fusion startups have raised over $10 billion as energy demand from AI data centers surges. Here's what's actually being built, which approaches are closest, and why this time might—just might—be different.

Over 30 startups hit unicorn status in just two months of 2026. AI is the catalyst, but healthcare, crypto, and robotics are quietly stealing the show.

Global Brain partners with Techstars to launch a $200M fund targeting non-Japanese startups. The move reveals more about Japan's startup ecosystem than it does about any single deal.

Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun launched AMI, a Paris-based startup raising over $1 billion to build AI world models—a direct challenge to OpenAI, Anthropic, and the entire LLM paradigm.

AMI Labs, cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun, raised $1.03B to build world models — AI that understands reality, not just language. Here's why that distinction matters.