Bengaluru food delivery startup Swish raises $38M, its third round in 18 months |

Swish, a Bengaluru-based food delivery startup, has raised $38 million in a new funding round, as the 18-month-old company continues to draw investor interest for…

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch |

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is…

Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B |

In Brief Posted: 11:52 AM PDT · March 11, 2026 Vibe-coding sensation Replit has hit another funding milestone. The company announced Wednesday that it raised…

Uzbekistan’s Uzum valuation leaps over 50% in seven months to $2.3B |

Uzbekistan fintech Uzum has reached a $2.3 billion valuation — about 53% higher than just seven months ago — as investors place growing bets on…

Slate Auto changes CEO months ahead of affordable EV launch |

9:14 AM PDT · March 9, 2026 Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has replaced its CEO months ahead of the…

Hardware testing startup Nominal hits $1B valuation, raises $155M in 10 months |

In Brief Posted: 10:59 AM PST · March 5, 2026 Nominal on Thursday announced a fresh $80 million Series B extension round at a $1…

More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before |

11:39 AM PST · February 24, 2026 AI has brought the startup world the rise of a new phenomenon: startups that almost instantly hit multimillion-dollar…

Just 8 months in, India’s vibe-coding startup Emergent claims ARR of over $100M |

Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it’s generating annual run-rate revenue of more than $100 million, thanks…

Harvey reportedly raising at $11B valuation just months after it hit $8B |

In Brief Posted: 10:21 AM PST · February 9, 2026 There appears to be no stopping legal AI startup Harvey’s skyrocketing growth, with VCs continuously…

AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation 2 months after launch |

In Brief Posted: 4:13 PM pst · January 26, Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has…