Sentia Spirits: The Startup Rewriting What It Means to Drink
On a quiet evening in London, a different kind of drinks experiment began taking shape. Not another alcohol brand. Not a wellness fad. But a serious attempt to answer a…
Meta to Acquire Chinese-Founded AI Startup Manus
Meta said on Monday it would acquire Chinese-founded artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the technology giant accelerates efforts to integrate advanced AI across its platforms. Financial terms of its transaction…
Nvidia licenses Groq chip tech, hires startup’s Google-veteran CEO
Nvidia has agreed to license chip technology from startup Groq and hire away its CEO, a veteran of Alphabet's Google, Groq said in a blog post on Wednesday. The deal…
Vercel: The startup quietly shaping how the modern web is built
When Guillermo Rauch started building a small JavaScript project in 2015, he was not trying to create a venture-backed company. He was trying to fix a problem he faced every…
Hugging Face: Who built the world’s open machine learning backbone
The race to own AI isn’t just about building models anymore. It’s about who builds the ecosystem that developers can’t live without. One startup quietly turned itself into the GitHub…
Xpanceo: Turning Human Eyes into the Next Digital Frontier
A Vision Beyond the Eye Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Roman Axelrod and physicist Dr. Valentyn Volkov, Xpanceo has leapt into the global spotlight with its audacious goal: build…
Until Labs: Trying to Pause Biological Time
Some ideas sound like science fiction, but they could change the world. Until Labs, a young biotech company, is working on something bold technology to pause biological time by reversibly…
Chinese AI chip startup Biren Technology plans Hong Kong IPO in coming weeks
Chinese AI chip startup Biren Technology aims to launch a Hong Kong initial public offering in the coming weeks, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The IPO could raise…
US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks ‘abandoned’ by Musk’s X
A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk’s…
AI startup Flex, raised $60 million in a Portage Ventures-led funding round
Flex, an artificial intelligence startup that aims to be a one-stop shop for the financial needs of mid-sized business owners, said on Thursday it has raised $60 million in a…