In Brief Posted: 10:47 AM PDT · March 16, 2026 Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP…
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Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by U.S. credit unions |
In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something even more…
Walmart-backed PhonePe shelves IPO as global tensions rattle markets |
PhonePe, India’s biggest digital payments platform, has put its IPO plans on hold, citing geopolitical tensions and a volatile stock market. On Monday, the Bengaluru-based…
Google, Accel India accelerator chooses 5 startups and none are ‘AI wrappers’ |
5:30 PM PDT · March 15, 2026 Many artificial intelligence startup ideas are still little more than superficial “wrappers” built on top of existing models.…
Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates |
Unacademy, once a one of India’s most valuable edtech startups, is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal that would bring…
Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition |
Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz this week — the biggest acquisition in Google’s history, as well as the largest ever…
US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B |
1:47 PM PDT · March 14, 2026 The U.S. Army said late Friday that it has signed a 10-year contract with defense tech startup Anduril.…
Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools |
Digg — Kevin Rose’s reboot of his once-popular link-sharing site — is laying off a sizable portion of its staff, the company announced on Friday.…
Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing |
AI agents are expected to soon start making autonomous purchasing and scheduling decisions on behalf of humans. But Michael Fanous, a UC Berkeley computer science…