Funding rounds, unicorns, acquisitions and shutdowns across the startup world, with a focus on India and the US.
India has few frontier AI model companies and limited computing capacity, but according to a16z managing partner Raghu Raghuram, the country should not be written off. In an interview with ET, Raghuram said Indian startups could first build services on open-weight models before eventually developing their own.

Honda registered 5.17 lakh domestic sales in August, growing 7.54% YoY and 8.58% MoM, with Activa contributing nearly half its volumes
VTU inaugurates VRIF-K-Tech technology business incubator in Belagavi to boost startups, bridge academia-industry, and support 10 campus ventures.

Bengaluru-based electric vehicle maker Ultraviolette raised USD 85 million in a fresh funding round as it prepares to increase production and expand into international markets. The round was led by deep-tech investors Yali Capital and TDK Ventures. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan also invested in the company and joined as an advisor. The funding comes shortly after Ultraviolette announced a new manufacturing facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The plant is designed to eventually support production of up to 5 la
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Consumer Electronics: Catch up with the biggest technology product launches of the week, featuring new Beats 360 headphones, Sennheiser MOMENTUM 5 series, Nikon cameras, Sony telephoto lenses, and Google climate startups.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India can achieve growth above 10% if technology, innovation and startup-led solutions spread more widely across sectors.

Not just Sarvam models: Indian AI startup can now host American models too

A brand-new biotech startup with thousands of AI agents is sprouting at Stanford.

Endpoints News announces the winners of the 2026 Endpoints 11 awards: The best and most exiting biotech startups of the year.

2028 can't come soon enough - Unicorn Overlord was one of our very favourite games of 2024, so you can imagine our excitement this morning when we found out ...

Publisher Good Smile Company and developer Monochrome Corporation have announced new fantasy intellectual property IGNISPHERE, and the first game set in that…
Bengaluru startups raised $4.4B in Jan–Sept 2026, 43% of India tech funding—nearly matching the next five cities’ $4.8B, says Tracxn.

West Indies head coach views the three-match series as an important part of the team's preparation for the ODI World Cup qualifiers
The startup has raised nearly $800 million over the past year, from investors including Nvidia, Thrive Capital, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, and Sequoia Capital.

Finnish newco Kasvu Therapeutics has raised €30 million (US$34.4 million) in a series A financing to take forward novel small molecules that have the antidepressant benefits of psychedelic drugs, but none of the hallucinogenic effects.

U.S. artificial intelligence startup Anthropic on Wednesday unveiled the first discovery from its molecular biology lab, a previously unknown enzyme system spotted by its Claude model and touted by the company as proof that AI can speed up basic research.

The solutions in the second round of CUREator+ Dementia & Cognitive Decline grants, range from gene editing to tools for earlier detection.

Q.ANT, a startup out of Stuttgart, Germany, builds processors that use light instead of electricity to do some of the The post Q.ANT gives away the software for its light-powered AI chips in a CUDA-style bet on developers appeared first on The New Stack .
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