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The deal, if confirmed, would follow recent attention around the company’s Jev model among enterprise users.
Reporting: cryptobriefing.com
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Seattle-based Kapta Space has raised $24 million in Series A funding to scale production of its metamaterial radar payloads for defense satellites.
Reporting: msn.com, geekwire.com
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Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal has called the decline in H-1B visa approvals good for India’s startup sector.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Zach Yadegari, the 19-year-old co-founder of calorie-tracking app Cal AI, has raised $10 million for Persona.
Reporting: digitalmarketreports.com, vizaca.com
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Direct-to-consumer personal care brand Nat Habit has raised ₹142 crore ($14.7 million) in an all-primary Series C round led by Trident Growth Partners.
Reporting: inc42.com, economictimes.indiatimes.com
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India’s cleantech startups raised substantially more capital in the third quarter of 2026, driven by a handful of outsized electric vehicle rounds.
Reporting: msn.com, inc42.com
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 begins October 13 at Moscone West in San Francisco, drawing 10,000 founders, investors.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Amazon and Flipkart reported record-breaking activity on the first day of their 2026 festive sales, driven by shoppers in non-metro markets.
Reporting: yourstory.com
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The figure follows a smaller funding week in late September, though comparisons to prior weeks are difficult to draw without full context.
Reporting: techloy.com
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TechLoy reported that Asia’s startup funding reached $141.37 million in Week 41, with investors backing consumer technology, fusion energy, enterprise AI.
Reporting: techloy.com
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European startups raised $25 billion in venture funding in the third quarter of 2026.
Reporting: siliconrepublic.com
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Factory, the Mumbai-based startup developing AI coding agents for software development, has entered insolvency proceedings, Sifted reported.
Reporting: sifted.eu
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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) plans to introduce caps on insurance agent commissions starting January 2027, Inc42 reported.
Reporting: inc42.com
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A string of recent funding announcements in the US marks a turn toward AI startups that operate outside data centers.
Reporting: note.com
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Manus, the Chinese AI startup behind agentic automation tools.
Reporting: seekingalpha.com
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Omnichannel menswear brand KISAH has raised ₹35.9 crore ($3.7 million) in a Series A round led by Fireside Ventures, Inc42 reported.
Reporting: inc42.com
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Spanish startup Autentic AI has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its AI-powered market-research platform.
Reporting: tech.eu
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European startups secured €15.8 billion across 300 funding rounds in September, nearly five times the €3.2 billion raised in August, according to tech.eu.
Reporting: tech.eu
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Kenyan pay-as-you-go fintech M-Kopa has acquired Finnish device-locking software company KilpiTek Oy for $8 million.
Reporting: msn.com
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Observability startup OllyGarden has raised $4 million to develop technology aimed at improving telemetry quality.
Reporting: tech.eu
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