NextRise 2026, Seoul Successfully Wraps Up as Asia’s Leading Startup Fair Co-hosted by KITA and KDB

/PRNewswire/ — The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) and Korea Development Bank (KDB) successfully wrapped up NextRise 2026, Seoul, Asia’s leading startup fair, at COEX…

Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that |

Take a stroll around San Francisco and it won’t take long to spot an empty autonomous vehicle cruising the city’s streets, waiting to be hailed…

Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world |

For decades, IT services firms made billions of dollars by allowing companies to outsource tech tasks like customizing, integrating, and maintaining enterprise software. Vishal Sikka,…

Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion

Qualcomm will acquire the Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion. The companies announced the acquisition on Wednesday; Qualcomm said it expects to…

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero |

In Brief Posted: 2:48 PM PDT · June 23, 2026 GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a…

WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah and invests $900M in startup |

Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp’s next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who is stepping…

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round |

In Brief Posted: 2:20 PM PDT · June 18, 2026 AI inference company Baseten is close to finalizing a stunning $1.5 billion funding round at…

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple |

In Brief Posted: 8:35 AM PDT · June 16, 2026 African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave announced Tuesday a Series E round that values the company…

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living |

Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a theory about where the next wave of startup opportunity lies, and it starts with a question…

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in |

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but…