27 Aug 2026 · 15 articles
The market for private-company shares has become a much bigger part of the startup ecosystem. In this Crunchbase News Q&A, EquityZen co-founder Phil Haslett discusses why startups are offering employees and investors liquidity earlier, and why secondary prices can be more revealing than headline valuations.
Summary published by Crunchbase News · 25 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Nvidia Corp.’s first AI infrastructure boom concentrated enormous amounts of compute. The next opportunity will be distributing it through high-speed network fabrics. Everyone knows that I love stories that connect Silicon Valley to Wall Street. Well, two important events this week did just that, the just-concluded Hot Chips conference at Stanford University and today’s monster […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 27 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Artificial intelligence startup Deep Cogito Inc. today announced that it has raised $43 million in funding. TQ Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons and Zscaler Inc., a publicly traded cybersecurity provider. The deal brings Deep Cogito’s total outside funding to more than […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 26 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Wen Sang, Chief Operating Officer at Genspark, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Genspark builds agentic AI for …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 26 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the enterprise world is still dealing with a data pipeline problem. More than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, and 99% of this data is dark to AI because there is no easy solution to query it, according to industry experts. Yet organizations are still trying to build AI […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 26 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
From interactive literacy platforms and screen-free learning devices to AI tutors and professional training tools, Europe’s EdTech sector is home to a growing number of startups working to make education more personalised, engaging and accessible. The companies featured on this list cover a wide range of areas, including early-years learning, classroom technology, tutoring, AI-powered study…
Summary published by EU-Startups · 26 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Data center power startup Emerald AI Inc. today said that it has raised $150 million in new funding in an oversubscribed round at a valuation of $1.05 billion. Emerald will put the money into scaling up commercial deployments worldwide. The company’s core product, called Emerald Conductor, is software that schedules artificial intelligence workloads against the batteries […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 25 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it’s launching with $26 million in funding to try to revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, not the billions of autonomous agents that many believe will soon dominate the internet. The seed round was backed by investors including Accel and Conviction Partners and saw […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 25 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
AI storage infrastructure is becoming a more consequential planning issue as organizations move from model training toward agentic AI. As agents reason, act and reassess, they build longer contexts and generate more data that they must access quickly during inference. Agentic AI is also changing the shape of the data problem. Interactions are growing longer […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 25 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
For the past two years, the generative artificial intelligence boom has largely been defined by a single market. Hyperscalers have dominated the market with massive capital spending. According to CreditSights, the five largest U.S. hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google LLC, Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp. — are on pace to […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 25 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Rising AI costs have become a talking point for LegalTech, and other industries, as the initial exuberance over agentic AI has waned. These days, vendors and customers are more likely to discuss specific business cases and return on investment (ROI) rather than get carried away with AI’s potential. This shift in tone is welcome news, […]
Summary published by EU-Startups · 25 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Willson Cross, the CEO of Borderless AI tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Hiring internationally has traditionally been …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 24 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
The standalone company, backed by Wall Street firms, is looking to boost its AI technology implementation capabilities.
Summary published by aibusiness · 24 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Amid fierce competition for an edge in the AI race, well-funded startups commonly find it’s simply faster to buy another company than try to build out certain technologies themselves.
Summary published by Crunchbase News · 24 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Plus the math that has to be true for AI to reach $600B in revenue: $100K of tokens per engineer, and 30% fewer engineers. A heavy week on 20VC x SaaStr with Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin: SpaceX closed its $60B all-stock takeover of Cursor Stripe bought OpenRouter for around $7B, four months...
Summary published by SaaStrAI · 23 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗