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Startups
451 stories
Funding, founders, and companies early enough to still be fragile.
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
5Meet Ritu Narayan, Indian-origin mom behind a $1.7 billion school bus startup
Times of India · 4 min · Center
Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
This doctor turned a stroke at 24 into a $75 million bet on smart rings. Read his pitch deck.
Business Insider · 4 min · Center
Top 10 Innovators Honoured At Vande Bharatam Grand Finale
NDTV · 2 min · Center
Monad, an Ethereum rival, offered early investors up to $60 million to cash out. Almost all said no
CoinDesk · 3 min · Center
Monday, 17 August 2026
16AI proptech startup EliseAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a $3.7 billion valuation
Business Insider · 2 min · Center
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
Ars Technica · 3 min · Center
Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21
TechCrunch · 2 min · Center
Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
TechCrunch · 4 min · Center
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
Hacker News · 2 min · Center
First came self-driving cars. Now, Waymo veterans are building autonomous construction equipment.
Business Insider · 3 min · Center
Show HN: Eve Software Factory
Hacker News · 3 min · Center
Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
Hacker News · 3 min · Center
Serve Robotics is partnering with Grubhub after its Uber Eats partnership fell through
Quartz · 1 min · Center
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
The 25 most promising robotics startups in 2026, according to investors
Business Insider · 4 min · Center
Connecting entrepreneurs, markets and opportunities: register for GEC+Africa 2026
Business Day · 3 min · Center
IDF Unit 8200 Alumni Association uses network to support Israeli start-ups
jpost.com · 4 min · Center
Sunday, 16 August 2026
4Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
Hacker News · 2 min · Center
I built my own root DNS so I could stop renting names
Hacker News · 6 min · Center
Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer
Hacker News · 3 min · Center
Anthropic’s $200 billion revenue forecast sets the stakes for its IPO
calcalistech.com · 4 min · Center
Saturday, 15 August 2026
4What investors say went wrong at Selena Gomez's mental health startup Wondermind
Business Insider · 4 min · Center
Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
Hacker News · 2 min · Center
How Many Employees Does It Take to Reach $100M ARR Now?
Hacker News · 4 min · Center
I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL
Hacker News · 3 min · Center
Friday, 14 August 2026
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8Lovable doubles its valuation to $13.3 billion as investors place another big bet on AI coding
Business Insider · 2 min · Center
Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people — and the grid — will actually want
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Indian semiconductor startups raised $206 million since 2022: Report
The Hindu · 3 min · Center
Gates' daughter knew about Phia ‘Cookie Stuffing’, report cites internal chats
Times of India · 3 min · Center
Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials
Hacker News · 4 min · Center
Reed Jobs says Silicon Valley’s 'energy' has moved to San Francisco thanks to post-pandemic office prices
Business Insider · 3 min · Center
Unsloth Desktop
Product Hunt · 1 min · Center
Senior OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap to leave for new venture
The Hindu · 2 min · Center
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
8Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup
Business Insider · 3 min · Center
Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything
Hacker News · 2 min · Center
What comes after the smartphone? Amazon’s Panos Panay will make his case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center