Prominent solo investor Lachy Groom has backed a Bengaluru startup attempting an ambitious feat: keeping an aircraft in the sky for more than a year…
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Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient |
As rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns put Asia’s water-intensive rice farming under pressure, Mitti Labs, a New York- and Bengaluru-headquartered climate-tech startup, has raised…
Lululemon backs nylon-recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A |
Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling…
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to…
Netflix backs out of bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, giving studios, HBO, and CNN to Ellison-owned Paramount |
In a flurry of deal offers in the high tens of billions of dollars, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over. David Ellison-owned…
Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC |
In Brief Posted: 12:52 PM PST · February 20, 2026 Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a campaign…
Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure |
Neysa, an Indian AI infrastructure startup, has secured backing from U.S. private equity firm Blackstone as it scales domestic compute capacity amid India’s push to…
As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck |
Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i…
Exclusive: Eclipse backs all-EV marketplace Ever in $31M funding round |
If you want to buy or sell a used EV right now, what’s the first step you’d take? A startup called Ever wants to be…
Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M |
As demand grows for privacy-first enterprise AI that can run without sending sensitive data to the cloud, SpotDraft has raised $8 million from Qualcomm Ventures…