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Afore Capital began backing pre-seed startups in 2017; 8 years later, its portfolio was valued at $13.5 billion and it had returned $47 million to investorsAfore Capital is changing how it backs new businesses. Its new $185 million fund will support both startups with clear business plans and f...
In 2026, Kofi Asante-led Bluecore Energy raised $50 million to put small nuclear reactors on floating bargesA nuclear power plant that floats on water and sends electricity to shore may sound unusual, but one startup wants to make it a reality. Bl...
Who is Rex Salisbury? Man who started Cambrian Ventures; by 2025, its $20 million First Fund had backed 33 startups, about half reaching Series ASalisbury's Cambrian Ventures has one simple task, and that is focusing on early-stage financial technology companies. They are commonly kn...
India's cooling problem is becoming an electricity-cost problem, and the AC industry is trying to solve itIndia’s rising temperatures and growing AC adoption: The country's AC market is predicted to grow significantly in the coming years due to ...
In 2019, Susa Ventures raised a $90 million fund; 6 years later, its reported assets had reached $265 millionA venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, Susa Ventures was founded in 2013. The firm backs early-stage companies. It also...
Formial Labs raises Rs 2.88 crore led by Zeropearl VCThe startup aims to expand its clinical team and improve technology for diagnosis and follow-up services.
Meet Armaan Dhanda, who left college at 22 to turn microbes into tiny factories, his biotech startup raised $2.6 millionDhanda co-founded the company with Samyak Baid, and they met at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The main approach of the busine...
Fintech funding rises 14% to $2.2 billion in Jan-Sep; deal count falls 41%: TracxnFunding in the first nine months of 2025 stood at USD 1.9 billion. The number of rounds dropped to 153 from 260 a year ago, the data intell...
Meet Aidan Guo, young entrepreneur building an AI desktop assistant, his startup has already attracted about $1.6 million in fundingGuo's interest in technology began when he was young. On his personal website, he says he started sneaker botting at the age of 13, The act...
Meet Akshat Kannan and William Zhang, college dropouts who launched AI startup Zeroset, here's how it emerged with $5.2 million in fundingThe company's first product, Nebula, collects information form workplace software and tracks how tasks, decision and activities change over...
Meet Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, young entrepreneur whose first AI product failed, his startup Nozomio later raised $6.2 millionRakhmetzhanov is the founder of Nozomio, an AI startup that has changed its focus since its early days. He launched an education technology...
CurvetAI raises Rs 6 crore in pre-seed funding led by Merak VenturesCurvetAI has secured Rs 6 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by Merak Ventures. The platform aims to streamline AI tools by integrating ...
Frontier AI slowdown a distraction, compute is the real constraint: early Anthropic backer Menlo VenturesMenlo Ventures' Matt Murphy called the slowing down "a bit of a red herring", and said compute, not intelligence, is the real constraint, i...
Menlo Ventures on AI slowdown; Ola Electric CEO pledges stakeHappy Monday! Menlo Ventures, an early Anthropic backer, says the real AI constraint is compute, not a slowdown in frontier models. This an...
How 25 students of Gurgaon-based college raised Rs 60 crore funding in deep tech and space ventures in a dayTwenty-five startups from Gurugram-based Masters’ Union University received soft funding commitments worth Rs 60.5 crore. The startups pres...
Too early to write India off in the global AI race: Andreessen Horowitz’s Raghu RaghuramIndia has few frontier AI model companies and limited computing capacity, but according to a16z managing partner Raghu Raghuram, the countr...
AI startup Demoverse raises $600K to let consumers co-create products with brandsDemoverse secured six hundred thousand dollars in pre-seed funding led by Lumikai. This platform uses artificial intelligence to let consum...
Factory floor or family office? India’s young rich alarm eldersIndia’s wealthy business families are increasingly shifting from traditional family businesses to family offices, private equity and startu...
Voice AI startup Arrowhead eyes fresh funding to accelerate international expansionArrowhead is betting on BFSI-led international expansion as it scales voice agents across lending, insurance, collections and customer serv...
From Mamaearth to Phool: Shilpa Shetty, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Alia Bhatt among celebrity investors to back startupsCelebrity investments: Bollywood stars and cricket legends are increasingly backing Indian startups. A Tracxn report identifies 10 celebrit...