AI Startups

Portland Leather Goods, a manufacturer of leather accessories with nearly one million social media followers, deployed an AI tool from startup Nectar Social to manage a backlog of 70,000 monthly messages, comments, and m…

SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and Nasdaq Texas under the ticker SPCX on Thursday, with its $75 billion IPO priced at $135 per share and valuing the company at $1.77 trillion, making it the large…

SpaceX shares surged 13% above their $135 IPO price in Friday's market debut, pushing the company's valuation past $2 trillion and making it the most valuable publicly traded U.S. company behind only a handful of tech gi…

TaskPrio has launched a task management system that lets AI coding agents pull work from a single ranked queue and execute it autonomously. The MCP-native tool allows developers to maintain one global priority order acro…

SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq on June 12 at $135 per share in one of the most anticipated and controversial public offerings in history. The IPO allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social med…

London Tech Week 2026 concluded its 13th edition with over 30,000 delegates from 128 countries, reflecting the UK tech ecosystem's shift from potential to deployment across AI, deeptech, and climate innovation. The week …

A developer built TokenWatch, an open-source tool for tracking LLM costs, after Helicone entered maintenance mode following its acquisition by Mintlify in March. The lightweight alternative uses SQLite and requires no pr…

SpaceX shares are poised to jump roughly 30% from their $135 offering price when trading begins Friday on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, following Elon Musk’s company completing a record $75 billion initial public off…

Registering a corporation in Canada costs between $200 and $397 CAD, with additional hundreds in licensing fees and annual tax filing expenses ranging from $300 to $1,500, according to a founder's analysis. The requireme…

Jeff Bezos announced his new AI startup, Prometheus, will focus on creating an "artificial general engineer" to design physical products, following a $12 billion funding round that values the company at $41 billion. The …

Chinese humanoid robot maker EngineAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, working with China International Capital Corp and Citic Securities on the potential share sale. The three-year-o…

SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket, satellite, and AI company, launched the largest initial public offering in history Thursday evening, pricing shares at $135 each and raising $75 billion. The IPO values SpaceX at roughly $1.77…

Chinese GPU maker MetaX Integrated Circuits Shanghai Co. plans a secondary listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange, the company announced June 12. The move follows a blockbuster Shanghai IPO in December 2025 where shares…

SaaStr published its sponsor engagement leaderboard for SaaStr AI Annual 2026, measuring leads captured from a show floor of more than 10,000 B2B and AI attendees. Replit generated the most leads at 1,423, followed by Li…

Sixfold raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Brewer Lane, with strategic investment from Guidewire and participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The company will use the capital to ac…

Mistral is in early-stage funding talks to raise approximately €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, nearly doubling its September valuation of €11.7bn. The Paris-based AI startup, positioning itself as Europe's…

French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of approximately 3 billion euros, which would value the company at around 20 billion euros. The company, positioning itself as a European alternative to US …

Serial entrepreneur Ron Garret recounts six and a half failed startup attempts and a derailed academic career in a 2025 blog post, sharing lessons from his lifelong string of professional setbacks. Garret, who never secu…

Shanghai-based GPU designer MetaX announced plans for a Hong Kong stock listing on Friday, less than six months after its debut on Shanghai’s Star Market. The company aims to fund next-generation GPU development, supply-…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has postponed his planned trip to South Korea, where he was scheduled to meet with Samsung, Naver, and Kakao to discuss AI cooperation. OpenAI stated that South Korea is a strategic partner and that…