Funding rounds, unicorns, acquisitions and shutdowns across the startup world, with a focus on India and the US.

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 .

A conventional patent application can take 30 to 40 hours of attorney time and cost $18,000 to $40,000 in legal fees. Startups wait months to protect technology that can change by the day. Fearn, the modern patent prosecution firm for startups, was built around a different model. The company has launched an AI-native patent firm. [...] This story continues at The Next Web

Hiive today announced that it is rebranding as Clarity, reflecting the company’s evolution from a marketplace for secondary transactions into a financial services platform powering the capital market for highly valued private companies.
Ex-Anthropic Staffers' AI Startup in Talks to Raise at $5 Billion Value

Macworld If your Mac is warning that you are running out of storage, you need room for a macOS update, or your Mac simply seems to be slowing down, you may have looked at the large chunk of storage labelled System Data and wondered if you can safely delete it to save space on your Mac . Low storage can cause all kinds of problems on a Mac – you might see warnings that your startup disk is almost full, struggle to install macOS updates , notice performance slowdowns, or in extreme cases even have

Helsinki-based AI cloud provider Verda has just closed a Series B round of 189 million dollars (about 161 million euros), giving the company a valuation of more than one billion dollars. The Finnish firm joins a growing group of European neoclouds that sell compute capacity for AI training and inference and take on the US [...] Der Beitrag Finland’s Verda Becomes a Unicorn With €161 Million for Europe’s Next Neocloud erschien zuerst auf Trending Topics .

LEIDEN, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anavo Therapeutics, a global leader in unlocking the full therapeutic potential of phosphatase biology, today announced the appointment of Vincent G. Brichard, M.D., Ph.D., as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Dr. Brichard brings nearly four decades of experience from across the life sciences including groundbreaking biomedical research, drug development, venture capital investment and corporate strategy and transactions. His appointment marks an importan
US battery startup that ditched Kentucky for China opens factory as Trump, Xi meet Reuters

Indulge Concierge, a members-only lifestyle management company for high-net-worth individuals (HNIs), has raised $1 million in a Pre-Series A funding round as it looks to expand into the US, UAE, Malaysia and South Africa while increasing its investment in artificial intelligence (AI). The round saw participation from both existing and new investors, according to the company. Indulge said the capital will be used primarily to support international expansion and further develop its AI capabilitie

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The startup is looking to expand beyond electric air taxi rides in major cities.

I’ll give you a real-world example. I have two sons who both graduated college in the last two years, and they’re entering the workforce. One of my sons studied finance and marketing, and he wanted to get into business development. He went to a startup, and he got a job but [became] frustrated. But he [...] The post Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on Arc, the Future of Quantum and the Agentic Economy appeared first on News7tv .

EVAS Intelligence RISC-V chip startup raised $295 million on September 18, 2026, reaching a $2.21 billion valuation on an architecture that is structurally outside US export control reach because its Swiss nonprofit governance body cannot be subjected to Commerce Department restrictions the way Nvidia GPU exports can.
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Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 19: The 25th CII Energy Efficiency Summit 2026 concluded in Hyderabad after bringing together government stakeholders, industry leaders, policymakers, technology providers, cleantech startups, academia, researchers, and sustainability experts to chart the next phase of India's energy transition. Held under the theme "Accelerating the transition to a Net Zero economy through energy efficiency, clean technologies, and sustainable practices."

Ashwini Vaishnaw cautioned that the semiconductor industry and deeptech startups must remain vigilant against potential cyberattacks and threats from those seeking to hinder India's rise

When it comes to AI hacks, things keep getting stranger. A three-person team at security startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude model to build an attack chain that gave it access to the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of OpenAI employees and, from there, to the company’s internal code repositories. The Wall Street Journal first reported [...] Der Beitrag How Hacktron Used Claude Opus 5 to Break Into OpenAI’s Internal Repositories erschien zuerst auf Trending Topics .

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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 18, 2026) - GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) ("GreenPower" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of all-electr...

LAKE MARY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME) (“VerifyMe”), a provider of authentication and precision logistics technologies today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized and declared a special cash dividend of $0.15 per share (the “Dividend”), to be distributed pro-rata per share of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”) to (i) holders of Common Stock, and (ii) holders of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0
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