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In November 1996, Bandai released the Tamagotchi, a digital pet housed in a plastic egg that required constant attention to survive.
Reporting: inc42.com
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London-based Affinity Labs has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand its portfolio of AI-powered software brands co-founded with creators.
Reporting: tech.eu
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Chainguard, a startup specializing in secure software supply chains, today rolled out a vulnerability-hunting service powered by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.1 model.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Agentic AI startup RevRag.AI has raised $2.5 million (₹24 crore) in a seed round led by Accion Ventures to build AI relationship managers for lenders and insurers.
Reports suggest US venture capital firms have led a series of pre-seed rounds for AI-native startups in Europe and India.
Reporting: sifted.eu
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Investors have named 68 European startups as the continent’s most promising impact ventures, according to a recent ranking published by Sifted.
Reporting: sifted.eu
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Sifted has identified 14 fintech startups as ones to watch, based on recommendations from venture capitalists.
Reporting: sifted.eu
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Europe’s quantum computing startups are raising capital at a pace that contrasts sharply with the continent’s broader early-stage funding drought.
Reporting: sifted.eu
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Pluto Security has completed a $42 million funding round, bringing its total raised to the same figure as the startup disclosed when it emerged from stealth last October.
Reporting: kucoin.com
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Urban Company may be exploring another public-market fundraise, according to Inc42, despite reports of substantial cash reserves.
Reporting: inc42.com
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At YourStory’s TechSparks 2026 summit, AEOS founder and CEO Varun Mayya argued that online backlash can liberate creators to speak freely.
Reporting: yourstory.com
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India’s ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund has approved its first cohort of 19 fund managers, committing ₹7,131 crore to accelerate private investment in deeptech and research.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Middle East and North Africa startups raised $2.98 billion in 2026, with nearly 90% of the total flowing to companies in two countries.
Reporting: finance.yahoo.com
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Spill Games, a Bengaluru-based mobile-gaming studio founded this year, has raised $10.5 million in a round led by Elevation Capital.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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A leading fintech executive has declared the era of large-scale, funding-driven startup creation in India’s fintech sector largely over.
Reporting: bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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At the 17th edition of TechSparks, YourStory’s annual startup summit.
Reporting: yourstory.com
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Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Intel used this week’s Open Compute Project Global Summit to argue that the next phase of AI infrastructure will prioritize "right-sized" systems over the largest models and clusters.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Scuba, a startup building a productivity service to help teams and AI agents manage business data, has raised $34 million across two funding rounds.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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The UK has launched the Refugee Venture Fund (RVF), a venture capital fund exclusively backing businesses founded by refugees.
Reporting: tech.eu
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