AI Startups

Felix Wong, 33, a Harvard-educated biotech entrepreneur with MIT roots, chose to found his startup in Redwood City, California, despite his Massachusetts upbringing and the state's dominance in biotech, citing California…

Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB150.80 per share, issuing 40.45 million shares, with Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Basic Technology Research receiving a strategic placement of 933,900 shares worth about…

ASX info tech stocks rose 17% in the June quarter, outperforming the ASX200's 4% gain, as improving sentiment reopened growth opportunities. ClearVue Technologies (ASX:CPV) was selected for Canva's new Sydney headquarter…

AMD has acquired Taalas, a company previously highlighted in Latent Space's custom ASIC thesis, signaling AMD's commitment to custom silicon for AI inference. The acquisition was announced amid ongoing debates about the …

Naïve Inc., a Palo Alto-based AI lab, has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors. The company provides infrastruc…

Replit CEO Amjad Masad said the company is on track for $1 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2025, up from $2.8 million in 2024, after raising $400 million at a $9 billion valuation in March. Masad discus…

SAAS NORTH AI, Canada's largest software-as-a-service conference, is partnering with Dominion Dynamics and AI company Anvil to launch DEPLOY, a single-day summit in Ottawa on Nov. 5 for founders and investors in defence …

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, a startup that hardwires AI models onto custom chips, with financial terms undisclosed. Taalas, founded in 2023 by former AMD…

AMD has acquired Taalas, the AI inference chip startup co-founded by former Tenstorrent CEO Ljubisa Bajic, who will rejoin AMD under Vamsi Boppana's AI organization. Taalas's first chip achieves over 16,000 tokens per se…

At Startup School 2026, YC President & CEO Garry Tan said the next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before, and that AI agents running on personal infrastructure will compound knowledge ove…

Naïve, an AI infrastructure startup, has raised $28.5 million in a Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners, after signing up over 30,000 developer customers and scaling annual run-rate revenue to the low double-digi…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced executive changes across its AI units as the company accelerates investments in AI, while Jeff Dean, a 27-year veteran and co-leader of the Gemini effort, is leaving to head AI startup …

Gen Z-focused dating app Ditto, co-founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu, replaces swiping with AI matchmaking and has 150,000 signups, with about 20% of matches leading to dates. The service, available…

Paravo, a startup founded by Cesar Tapia and Eslam Odeh, launched on [date] as the first AI 'revenue engine' for law firms, combining lead generation, AI-powered intake and follow-up, and automated client reactivation in…

Exa, an AI search API company, was the only one of 30+ API vendors that Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, signed up with this year to check in on his experience, sending a four-sentence email from product team member Alin…

Ex-Spotify employees Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson, and Shivaditya Sinha raised $10 million in seed funding for their startup Malachyte, which brings the AI behind Spotify's recommendations to e-commerce. The platform, call…

AI lab Mirendil has signed a multiyear partnership with Google Cloud worth upward of $100 million to secure compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, CEO Behnam Neyshabur told TechCrunch. The deal, roughly hal…

Google has announced a major shake-up of its AI operations, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stepping back to become chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over as senior vice-president, an…

Omilia, an Athens-based customer support automation company, has raised $67 million in a Series B round led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to $87 million. The company, which has increased its an…

Jeff Dean, Google's former Senior Fellow and co-founder of Google Brain, left Alphabet on August 5 with three other top researchers—Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals—to launch Discovery Loop, a Palo Alto-based …