NEWSx.io https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html DATA ALLIANCE Raises $1.95M Pre-Series A to Expand Distributed GPU Cloud Globally – WOWTALE Lendbox faces scrutiny over high return investment products, ETStartup Fintech unicorn Zeller’s latest product is also its AI guinea pig equipal Raises €18.84M Other Meta’s new AI glasses start at $299 MoEngage Acquires US-Based AI Startup Aampe To Scale Agentic Marketing An AI startup is suing the US government for taking away Anthropic’s new model Two quantum computing researchers just raised €3.5M to fix AI’s runaway energy bill – Tech Funding News MoonPay acquires AI bookkeeping start-up Entendre – FinTech Futures Greek AI Startup Fully Acquired by Regional Fintech Leader Foodics – GreekReporter.com A fintech company said its employee burned through $80,000 in tokens making a ‘brainrot shooter game’ A fintech company said its employee burned through $80,000 in tokens making a ‘brainrot shooter game’ After US restricts Anthropic use, CEO of Canadian tech startup backs ‘cutting ties’ with foreign AI providers: ‘This sentiment …’ Meta invests $900M in Indian fintech CRED to turn WhatsApp into a super app Abolishing the Mandatory Investment Ratio (20%) for Individual Investor Funds…Expanding Mandatory Targets to Startup Firms in Their Fifth Year Oxford-incubated Lumenai secures pre-seed investment | ETIH EdTech News — EdTech Innovation Hub Kunal Shah Named Global Head of WhatsApp as Meta Pours $900 Million into His Fintech Startup CRED – Diya TV Superhuman Snaps Up AI Detection Startup GPTZero Kunal Shah: The Indian entrepreneur taking charge of WhatsApp Meta’s Cox Sought Shah’s WhatsApp Advice — Then Made Him Leader – Bloomberg.com AI Doubts Spark Tech Stock Selloff Idea Village Awards $1,500 Prize to platform for watching women’s sports – Technical.ly Meta Invests $900M in Fintech Startup CRED, Taps Founder to Lead WhatsApp – TechRepublic Embodied AI Startup Kunlunxing Lands Multibillion Yuan Raise Meta’s WhatsUpside Down hire: How Kunal Shah broke the Valley playbook – The Economic Times Meta’s India bet: Why Kunal Shah could be key to unlocking WhatsApp’s business potential – The Economic Times AI startup Engram raises $98 million at $600 million valuation with just 13 employees | CTech Access Denied Aptera says first deliveries are weeks away, but its California factory tells a different story Signal 1’s AI platform adopted by New York’s Mount Sinai Health System | BetaKit Why Bengaluru matters in Kunal Shah’s WhatsApp journey: The city where his fintech story took shape Aramco venture arm bets Saudi startup future on deep tech Lucid layoffs hit ‘small number’ of Michigan workers as EV maker retrenches Vithabai Narayangaonkar was allegedly raped at 15, performed in Tamasha with baby bump, cut the umbilical cord backstage with a stone, and went on to become the ‘Tamasha Queen’ Applications open for the second cohort of the Steel Works Health Accelerator – Silicon Prairie News Why bank payment spin-offs could trigger Africa’s next fintech deal wave – Businessday NG Why bank payment spin-offs could trigger Africa’s next fintech deal wave – Businessday NG Indian Startup News on Instagram: “India does not just build startups. It builds leaders who run the world. Kunal Shah, founder of Bengaluru-based fintech unicorn CRED, has been announced as the new global CEO of WhatsApp, the world’s biggest messaging platform, used by over 3 billion people. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally made the announcement, praising Shah’s “builder mentality and global perspective.” He said he looks forward to making WhatsApp the best service for billions of people and millions of businesses. Outgoing WhatsApp head Will Cathcart, who led the app for over seven years, called Shah the right person to take it forward. Kunal Shah started CRED in 2018 with just $1 million of personal capital. Today, CRED has 17 million monthly members, processes over 40% of India’s credit card bill payments, and posted Rs 2,735 crore in FY25 revenue. #CRED #kunalshah #whatsapp #CEO #leaders #indianstartupnews” In conversation with: OakNorth’s Ivan Maryasin – UKTN Lama AI raises $12 million Series A to bring AI agents to banking | CTech Analytics India Magazine — India’s Leading AI & Data Science Media Platform Intellectual curiosity & infectious optimism: Industry cheers Kunal Shah’s new role as WhatsApp Head Access Denied Access Denied Home How Kunal Shah turned rewards into a fintech empire—and landed the top job at WhatsApp What Meta’s $900M investment in CRED means for Indian fintech ecosystem Kunal Shah’s new challenge: Making WhatsApp Pay matter in India ZAWYA: LAB7 backs CONIX.AI to advance automated building code compliance validation Blog