It’s Wednesday, February 25, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds underscore investor commitment to next-gen AI infrastructure, embodied robotics, enterprise software acceleration, and spatial computing. As platforms push further into intelligent automation […]

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Security teams are drowning in alerts. Every day brings another wave of vulnerabilities, many of which never turn into real-world risk. Astelia thinks the problem isn’t visibility. It’s a signal. The New York–based cybersecurity startup announced $35 million in combined […]

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While much of the startup world, including us at TechStartups, keeps a close eye on startups raising billions, college students are quietly getting rich off a business model most tech founders would laugh at. No app, no pitch deck, no […]

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Rowspace is stepping out of stealth with fresh capital and a clear pitch to Wall Street: your firm’s most valuable asset isn’t another model. It’s the judgment buried in decades of internal data. The San Francisco AI startup announced $50 […]

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The Pentagon has given Anthropic a stark choice: loosen the guardrails on its Claude AI models for broader military use by Friday evening or risk federal intervention under the Defense Production Act. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered the message directly […]

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It’s Wednesday, February 25, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. Global tech momentum isn’t slowing down. Over the past 24 hours, the industry has been reshaped by massive AI infrastructure bets, fresh warnings about power […]

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SolveAI, a London-based AI startup founded by former Palantir engineer Steve Basher, is stepping out of stealth with $50 million in fresh funding and an ambitious pitch: give everyday enterprise employees the ability to build production-ready software simply by talking […]

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Cursor is moving fast to maintain its early lead in AI coding. On Tuesday, the startup rolled out a major update to its artificial intelligence agents, aiming to stay ahead of mounting pressure from heavyweights like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft. […]

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Stripe may be sizing up one of the biggest fintech deals ever. PayPal shares jumped nearly 7% Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that the privately held payments giant is in early discussions about buying the company in a transaction that could exceed […]

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It’s Tuesday, February 24, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight sustained investor appetite for AI infrastructure, enterprise automation, next-gen semiconductors, and emerging space and crypto platforms. As enterprises move from experimentation […]

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For decades, founders have repeated the same advice: “build something great, and users will come.” But a small iOS app called Push Scroll tells a very different story. Before a single line of production code existed, the creators behind the […]

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Less than three years after entering the crowded AI chip arena, Axelera AI is gaining serious institutional backing. The European AI acceleration startup announced a new funding round led by Innovation Industries, bringing in heavyweight names including BlackRock and SiteGround […]

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Discord is backing away from identity verification startup Persona after researchers flagged publicly accessible code tied to government systems, sparking fresh privacy concerns about the chat platform’s safety push. The controversy began when researchers said they found Persona’s frontend files […]

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Less than a month after Anthropic’s Claude plugins sparked a $285 billion software stock selloff that fueled Wall Street’s ‘SaaSpocalypse,’ the Claude Code maker is now moving to turn early buzz into enterprise traction. The AI startup on Tuesday introduced […]

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It’s Tuesday, February 24, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. AI competition is heating up on multiple fronts. In the past 24 hours, the story has shifted from who has the smartest models to who controls […]

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Anthropic says it has uncovered what it describes as a coordinated effort by three Chinese AI companies to siphon knowledge from its Claude model, escalating tensions between U.S. and Chinese labs at a moment when the race for AI dominance […]

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Anthropic says its AI coding tool can automate legacy COBOL modernization, raising fresh questions about IBM’s mainframe moat. IBM shares slid sharply after Anthropic stepped into one of enterprise computing’s most entrenched strongholds: COBOL. In a new post promoting its […]

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It’s Monday, February 23, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight continued investor momentum behind AI automation, quantum networking, enterprise observability, and vertical software platforms modernizing legacy industries. From financial infrastructure and […]

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Panel says record did not show respondent targeted Microsoft’s DATAVERSE mark Microsoft’s attempt to take control of Dataverse.com has hit a wall. In a recent WIPO decision, the tech giant failed to convince a three-member panel that the domain was registered […]

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Screen time has trained a generation to scroll. Giant wants children to create instead. The AI startup, which builds an interactive storytelling platform centered on young creators, said it has raised an $8 million seed round led by Matrix, Decasonic, […]

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HubSpot is doubling down on creator-led media, and this time it’s buying one of the internet’s most recognizable founder storytelling platforms. The CRM giant’s media arm has acquired Starter Story, the bootstrapped entrepreneurship brand built by Pat Walls, marking HubSpot’s latest […]

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Sherpas has closed a $3.2 million seed round, stepping into the spotlight at a moment when wealth management firms are under pressure to rethink how they deliver advice. The round was led by 1248, the family office of Mariner Wealth […]

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OpenAI is preparing for a scale of spending that would have sounded unrealistic just a few years ago. The ChatGPT maker is targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spending through 2030, according to Reuters. The aggressive build-out comes as the […]

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It’s Monday, February 23, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. AI infrastructure is tightening its grip on the global tech agenda — and today’s headlines make that unmistakably clear. From Meta locking in millions of Nvidia […]

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Finland’s push into the quantum spotlight is picking up speed. IQM, the Espoo-based quantum computing startup, said Monday it plans to go public through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Real Asset Acquisition Corp., in a deal that values the company […]

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It’s Friday, February 20, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. AI infrastructure spending is accelerating, cyber threats are hitting deeper into critical supply chains, and global regulators are tightening the guardrails around advanced systems. From […]

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NVIDIA is weighing a blockbuster move that could deepen its ties with the most closely watched company in artificial intelligence. The chip giant is in discussions to invest as much as $30 billion in OpenAI as part of a funding […]

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It’s Thursday, February 19, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight deepening investor conviction in AI-native infrastructure, spatial computing, and vertical SaaS platforms for regulated industries. With capital flowing into chip design, […]

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For decades, AI has learned from pixels, text, and clicks. Teaching machines where things are in the physical world has been a different story. After quietly operating for 9 years, ZaiNar is stepping into the public eye with a claim […]

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When a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader closes a $425 million venture fund in one of the most scrutinized sectors in America, investors pay attention. Frist Cressey Ventures, co-founded by former Senator Bill Frist, MD, has closed an oversubscribed $425 […]

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Saudi-owned mobile gaming giant Scopely is doubling down on its global expansion strategy with a majority investment in Istanbul-based Loom Games, a deal that values the Turkish studio at more than $1 billion. The transaction turns Loom into Türkiye’s seventh […]

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Vacant apartments are costing property owners an estimated $500 billion in lost value. Grotto AI believes the fix isn’t more automation. It’s better human conversations. The New York-based AI startup announced a $10 million seed round led by ICONIQ, the […]

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It’s Thursday, February 19, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. AI is no longer just a software story. It’s a powerful story. A grid story. A regulatory story. And increasingly, a geopolitical story. Over the past […]

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A moment meant to signal unity instead spotlighted one of Silicon Valley’s fiercest rivalries. For a brief moment on stage in New Delhi, the state of the AI race was on display. At the India AI Impact Summit in New […]

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It’s Wednesday, February 18, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds spotlight intensifying investor focus on spatial AI, fusion energy, AI chip co-design, and fintech infrastructure for workplace savings. As capital continues to […]

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