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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 23, 2025

It’s Monday, March 23, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds reflect accelerating investor momentum around human-centric AI, intelligent automation, and next-generation hardware. As startups race to define the future of knowledge work, […]

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Playnance launches democratic social gaming protocol with 1.3B GCOIN staked, 1M holders, and 2M daily transactions

Playnance is taking a direct swing at how gaming platforms make money—and who actually benefits. The Tel Aviv-based startup today launched what it calls a democratic social gaming protocol, built on the idea that players shouldn’t just fuel the system […]

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Microsoft-backed startup Lace raises $40M to build atomic-level chipmaking tech

A small team in Norway is taking aim at one of the hardest problems in computing: how to keep shrinking chips as today’s methods approach their limits. Lace Lithography, a Bergen-based startup backed by Microsoft, has raised $40 million to […]

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Interoperability as a Prerequisite for Scalable Digital Finance

Financial institutions continue to test distributed ledger systems across payments, settlement, and asset issuance. Many of these efforts begin as pilots within a single region or business unit, show promise, and then stall before reaching full production use. One of […]

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Air Street Capital closes $232M AI fund as solo VC model challenges traditional venture firms

A single investor just raised one of Europe’s largest AI-focused venture funds—and it’s forcing a rethink of how venture capital works. On Monday, Air Street Capital announced the close of its third fund at $232 million, making it the largest solo […]

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Former U.S. Ambassador Troy Fitrell Joins SAGINT to Lead Global Expansion of Tokenized Critical Minerals and Energy Infrastructure

The former top U.S. official for Africa policy joins SAGINT to scale a platform that turns supply chain compliance into tradeable digital assets across global minerals and energy markets A senior U.S. diplomat who spent three decades at the center […]

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China’s “Sputnik” Moment Escalates with DeepSeek V4, Heats Up The AI Arms Race

China’s DeepSeek recently hinted at a major new release of its model, which could potentially rival top American models while using significantly less computing resources.  The V4 model will focus on multimodal performance, meaning that it can handle not just […]

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Interloom raises $16.5M to give AI agents enterprise memory and automate real-world workflows

AI agents are starting to move into core business operations. There’s just one problem: they don’t remember how work actually gets done. That gap is what Interloom is going after. The Munich, Berlin, and London-based AI startup has raised $16.5 […]

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Elon Musk launches Terafab, a $25 billion Austin chip megafactory to power Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX AI and robotics ambitions

Elon Musk is going all-in on chips. On Saturday night in Austin, Musk unveiled Terafab, a planned $20 billion to $25 billion semiconductor complex that brings together Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI under one roof. The goal is simple and blunt: build […]

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Elon Musk Defrauded Twitter Investors During $44B Acquisition Battle, Jury Concludes

Elon Musk’s long-running battle over his $44 billion takeover of Twitter has taken a new turn—and this time, a jury has weighed in. A federal jury in San Francisco has found that Musk misled Twitter investors during his 2022 attempt to […]

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Super Micro co-founder arrested in $2.5B Nvidia AI chip smuggling case tied to China

Federal prosecutors have charged a co-founder of Super Micro Computer in a case that cuts to the heart of the global AI arms race. The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed an indictment accusing Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two […]

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OpenAI to launch desktop super app combining ChatGPT, browser, and Codex app

OpenAI is pulling its products into one place. The company plans to combine its web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app into a single desktop experience, first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move points to a clear […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 19, 2025

It’s Thursday, March 19, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds spotlight investor urgency around AI agent infrastructure, privacy-first digital ecosystems, and the physical systems supporting electrification and compute scaling. From coding security […]

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Jeff Bezos in talks to raise $100B AI fund to automate global manufacturing

Jeff Bezos is back—and this time, he’s aiming straight at the factory floor. The Amazon founder is in early discussions to raise a staggering $100 billion for a new AI-focused fund that would acquire manufacturing companies and push them toward […]

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Cybersecurity startup Oasis Security raises $120M from Craft, Sequoia, Accel to tackle AI identity risks

Less than two years after coming out of stealth, Oasis Security is pulling in another massive round—this time as AI agents quietly reshape the rules of cybersecurity. The New York– and Tel Aviv–based cybersecurity startup has raised $120 million in […]

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OpenClaw takes China by storm, sparking a buying frenzy for used Macs

Less than a month since its launch, OpenClaw has exploded in popularity as autonomous AI agents move from hype to real-world power. Now its wave is sweeping across China—driving unexpected demand in the hardware market. Across Beijing, Shenzhen, and beyond, […]

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Uber to invest $1.25 billion in Rivian to launch 50,000 robotaxis across global markets

Uber is making one of its boldest moves yet in autonomous driving, backing Rivian with a multibillion-dollar bet to bring robotaxis to the streets at scale. The ride-hailing giant said it plans to invest up to $1.25 billion in electric […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 18, 2025

It’s Wednesday, March 18, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight growing investor urgency around autonomous cybersecurity, cancer immunotherapy, and AI observability for agent-based systems. As AI-native infrastructure becomes critical to sectors […]

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Meta shuts down Metaverse after $80 billion loss, ends Horizon Worlds era

Meta just pulled the plug on its metaverse dream, drawing a line under one of the most ambitious bets in tech history. The company said Tuesday it will shut down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social platform once positioned at […]

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The Role of Mobile Banking in Modern Personal Finance

There was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago, when managing your money meant an actual trip to a brick-and-mortar building. You’d have to plan your entire afternoon around bank hours, wait in those slow-moving lines, and talk […]

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Ex-Anthropic researchers launch Mirendil, target $175M at $1B valuation for AI-powered scientific discovery

A new wave of AI startups is taking shape, and Mirendil is stepping into it with serious ambition—and serious backing. Founded by former Anthropic researchers, the San Francisco-based startup is already in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 […]

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Dell lays off 11,000 employees, spends $569M on severance as AI shift accelerates job cuts, filing shows

Dell just made one thing clear: the AI boom is not saving jobs—it’s reshaping them. In its latest annual filing, the company confirmed it cut about 11,000 employees in fiscal 2026, trimming roughly 10% of its workforce. The move came with […]

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Meta’s AI startup Manus launches desktop app that lets agents control your computer

Meta is moving its AI ambitions a step closer to your personal machine. The company’s newly acquired startup Manus has released a desktop application that puts its general-purpose AI agent directly on users’ laptops. Until now, Manus lived in the cloud, […]

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