NEWSx.io https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Blog Home White House Requests Record $1.5T Defense Budget Spotlighting AI and Shipbuilding – Startup Fortune The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Largest Financings Went To Defense, Wearables, Energy And Security – Crunchbase News D.C.'s Rivet Industries, founded by Palantir alum, raises nearly $58M to develop wearable tech for military – The Business Journals Cameroon higher education group plans microfinance bank for student startups – Business in Cameroon SA edtech startup The Invigilator raises R195 million to take AI exam monitoring global Tech Moves: Microsoft execs depart; TerraClear, UserTesting, EchoMark and Read AI add leaders – GeekWire Are stricter rules holding back fintech startups? QED Investors’ Nigel Morris weighs in – The Economic Times Insight Health Raises $11M in Series A Funding – NYC Today 12 Agentic AI Startups To Watch In 2026 AI and Experience Creep Are Squeezing Entry-Level Tech Jobs – Startup Fortune The Plaid Co-Founder Who Goes To Kinshasa To Find His Best Ideas – Forbes [Kyungpook National University Startup Support Center] Screen That Doesn’t Turn Off Even in Heatwaves… Biodisplay CEO Jo Ho-yeon Opens Market with Charger HMI – 벤처스퀘어 Exclusive: OpenLoop has acquired Season Health These five Bay Area AI startups captured 90% of record-breaking VC funding so far this year – The Business Journals Voice AI Startup Retell AI Named to Wing VC Enterprise Tech 30 2026 List, Celebrating the Best of Enterprise Tech Voice AI Startup Retell AI Named to Wing VC Enterprise Tech 30 2026 List, Celebrating the Best of Enterprise Tech VC firm brings dozens of startups to Phoenix during AZ Tech Week – The Business Journals Top Fintech Startups In Norway | TechRound Access Denied NeuralMed revamps its pitch and is reborn with a new name. – NeoFeed $10B AI Hiring Startup Mercor Confirms Data Breach Affecting Tech Talent This Is A Momentous Year For Early-Stage Unicorns Gateway Capital Closes First $25M Tranche of Fund II The startup looking to solve health care’s fax machine problem | Fortune Week 14 Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Africa and the Middle East, Led by ScaleOps, as AI and Cybersecurity Drew the Biggest Checks SCOOP: Y Combinator Startups Land Checks, Gather Hype as Neo & Others Vie for Talent He Built a 360K-User Fintech Without Funding — Here’s How Fidelity marks down conversational AI platform Gupshup’s valuation by 80% to $278 million – The Economic Times CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: BlackPeak Co-Leads Almost €30M Alcatraz Round Leapmotor Maintains EV Startup Lead in 2026 Why AI Adoption Fails: MegaZone Cloud Points to Strategy, Not Tech – Startup Fortune ICYMI fintech funding round-up: AccessPay, Qover, Brickken and more – FinTech Futures AI startup Sarvam close to raising $300 million at $1.5 billion valuation – The Economic Times V1C Raises KRW 13.4B in Pre-Series A Round AI-driven “One Person Company” sparks new entrepreneurial boom Tata Digital’s leadership reset; QED’s fintech caution How HitPay grew to $2.5b in annualized payment volumes with $18m – Tech in Asia Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident | Fortune M&A NEWS: Document Crunch, an Atlanta Construction AI Startup, Acquired by Public Tech Company Trimble – Hypepotamus Ben Affleck’s AI Tech Company Aims to Spare the Cost of Human Creativity │ Exclaim! Which Industries Will Cash In On AI Revenue By 2026 – Startup Fortune Startup News and Tech News UK – TechRound This week: Megapot scores $5M pre-seed funding for global lottery Money Transfer App Duc Exposes Thousands of IDs on Open Server Latin America’s Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Week 14, Led by Somos Internet, With Big Bets on Telecom and Healthtech GeekWire Awards: From the farm to space, Next Tech Titan finalists growing to meet big challenges – GeekWire Rivian spinout EV startup raises $200m in Series C round Asia’s Top Startup Funding in Week 14 Led by Rebellions, EPG, and Nazara Technologies