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A year-old AI lab with no product just raised $1 billion
Flapping Airplanes closed a $1 billion Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital at a reported $6 billion valuation, four…
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Temporal Raises $550 Million at a $12.55 Billion Valuation as AI Agents Need Infrastructure That Doesn't Fall Over
The open-source workflow platform, used to keep long-running AI agents from silently failing mid-task, landed one of the week's largest venture rounds…
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Two Bangladeshi brothers just raised $30,000 for their AI startup. In Dhaka, that counts as a real round
The modest raise reflects a broader pattern in Bangladesh's startup scene: founders turning to smaller, targeted checks and diaspora investors as larger…
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Australia's tech industry says it's finally ready to cash in on AI. Canberra isn't so sure
The Tech Council of Australia points to a maturing startup base and rising foreign investment, even as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese keeps…
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Kenya slips to third place in East Africa's funding race as its solar boom cools
Kenyan startups raised roughly $126 million in equity in H1 2026, trailing Nigeria and Egypt, after a 2025 surge driven almost entirely…
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Dubai and Abu Dhabi startups anchor a $1.6 billion three-week funding run for the UAE
A cluster of large rounds across fintech, logistics and AI has made the UAE the busiest deal market in the Gulf so…
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Germany's industrial AI startups are having their best funding run in years
Berlin's SPREAD, Stuttgart's Sereact and a cluster of manufacturing-focused AI firms have pulled in more than €140 million in 2026 as Europe's…
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10,000 people, 50 countries: ALL IN 2026 becomes Canada's biggest bet on AI as a tech identity
Atlantic Canada startups used the conference to court an international audience, part of a push to prove the country's AI scene extends…
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Enterprise AI agent startup HappyRobot reaches unicorn status
A $150 million round values the workflow-automation company at $1.2 billion as investors keep betting big on AI agents that handle logistics…
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Venture capital keeps flowing to startups that automate away the need for workers
A fresh batch of funding rounds spans autonomous vehicles, robotics, developer tools and stablecoin payments, but the throughline is the same: doing…