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🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut "From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Stars…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together mont…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spot…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and b…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months The buzzy startup raised $600 million in its Series C round. ▸ Reported by: Te…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months. ▸ Re…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023 ▸ Reported by: AI…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did fo…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports This startup is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient Newlight has raised a $9 million seed round and completed an 8,500-nauti…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’ The seed round for the app that provides real-time legal and…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitabil…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motor…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’ The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer b…

💰 Market — Inbound Reports Legato raises $12M and unveils AI-powered hearing-assistance glasses Stealth-mode hearing‑tech startup Legato announced a $12 million funding round a…

💰 Market — Inbound Reports Arga raises $10M seed round to accelerate enterprise AI agent training Arga, a platform for training enterprise AI agents, announced a $10 million se…

💰 Market — Inbound Reports Runable raises $21 million to scale AI agents for business creation AI startup Runable announced a $21 million Series A to develop agents that can bu…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: The Boring Co., Cognition And Motive Lead A Massive Week It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding, with…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Treasurer Jim Chalmers just dropped new draft laws on CGT for startups and there’s a some good news Chalmers softens startup CGT hit - 3-year hold,…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Default continuation message in Inspect and Petri could be problematic Inspect AI is one of the most popular libraries for running evaluations and…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free. But Is Anything Ever Free? Cofertility manages the costs of egg freezing and storage, in exchange…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Kiwi comms startup Drumbeat bags NZ$2M to help founders tell their stories Drumbeat lands NZ$2M to drag PR out of the ’90s and scale founder storyt…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports IVF startup GonGlobal raises $1.2 million for needle-free treatments GonGlobal bags $1.2M to kill IVF’s pin-cushion era with inhaled fertility meds…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Startup festival, Spark, is back this month with free events across NSW Sydney’s annual free startup festival, Spark, has unveiled this year’s prog…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Energy network management platform Gridsight charges up on $36 million Series B Gridsight bags $36m to squeeze hidden capacity from overloaded grid…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports S-Transistors Raises €2.6 Million Pre-Seed Round to Introduce Superconducting Transistor Platform Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Newly launched Finn…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Truemeds Eyes DealShare Acquisition At $90 Mn, 95% Below Peak Valuation: Report Ecommerce unicorn DealShare is reportedly in advanced talks to be a…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Airwallex tips $1 million into 10 AI startups Airwallex sprays $1m equity-free at 10 Aussie AI startups chasing robots, rockets and fintech rails—s…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Tools And Assistants Lead Sparser Lineup Of Megadeals Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Optimus Prime and Eeyore voice actor Peter Cullen dies Cullen voiced the heroic Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV series and then the Hollywood…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports AI advancing faster than human assessment capabilities A report by Talogy suggests that AI is evolving at a pace that surpasses human ability to ev…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Proxima Fusion bets €140M on a critical fusion ingredient dominated by Asian suppliers Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans to build a €140 milli…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36B, a huge…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation "We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Un…

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🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that h…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund The firm, 1789 Capital, led the funding round that reportedly wil…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save Bolt The controversial founder of the checkout startup once valued at $11…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the l…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more th…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or cl…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports OpenAI expands operations in Brazil to boost AI adoption OpenAI announced a new initiative in Brazil, aiming to deepen engagement with local develo…

💰 Market — Inbound Reports AI startup Instinct secures $350 million Series B at $2.5 billion valuation Instinct, a year‑old artificial‑intelligence company, raised $350 million…

💰 Market — Inbound Reports Flipboard to acquire Bluesky‑based feed builder Graze Flipboard announced it will acquire Graze, a startup that builds social feeds for Bluesky, aimi…

💰 Market — Inbound Reports QueryStory raises $6M seed to build LLM-powered AI query coherence platform Stealth-mode startup QueryStory announced a $6 million seed round to deve…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports AI startup Discovery Loop seeks around $50 billion valuation, Business Insider reports - Reuters AI startup Discovery Loop seeks around $50 billion…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its s…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI age…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Uber invests $10M in Indian fleet operator Carrum at $168M valuation Carrum Mobility operates about 5,100 vehicles in India and is Uber's largest f…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund Andreessen Horowitz held out its hand and returned with billions more in new f…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports SciReC: Diagnostic Evaluation of Multimodal, Multi-Turn Relational Reasoning with Adaptive Interaction arXiv:2608.27461v1 Announce Type: new Abstr…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Shein CEO’s Wealth Slumps $15 Billion After Whittled-Down IPO Chinese fast-fashion business Shein Global Holdings Ltd. was once worth more than the…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Aliko Dangote's Daughters Join Succession Plan As Aliko Dangote prepares for Africa's largest IPO, he is breaking tradition by bringing his three d…

🔵 Analysis — Inbound Reports Ask HN: Is Paul Graham right that you shouldn't build startups at 17? Is Paul Graham right that you shouldn’t build startups at 17 and should focus…