China's EVAS Intelligence raises nearly RMB 2B for RISC-V AI chips
EVAS Intelligence raised nearly RMB 2 billion (about $280M), announced Sept 18, 2026, at a post-money valuation near RMB 15 billion from 20+ investors including SMIC Capital and Hu…
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UK's Ryft raises largest UK payments Series B of 2026 at GBP 20M
Manchester payments-infrastructure fintech Ryft closed a GBP 20 million Series B on Sept 17, 2026, led by Gresham House Ventures, to fund expansion into Europe and the US. Ryft now…
ByteDance-spun Anew Labs raises $290M for AI-driven drug discovery
Shanghai-based Anew Labs announced about $290M in inaugural external financing on September 16, 2026, from HSG, IDG Capital, Hillhouse, and 5Y Capital. Spun out of ByteDance, which…
OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT, adds Shopify and HubSpot ad tools
On September 16, 2026, OpenAI began piloting Sponsored Agents, clearly labeled advertiser-run chats, inside ChatGPT with US brands like Angi and Wayfair, and shipped its first ecom…
Anthropic merges Cowork into one Claude, adds Claude Docs and Slides in beta
On September 16, 2026, Anthropic folded its Cowork agent and Claude chat into a single 'one Claude' experience where the model picks the tool automatically, and launched Claude Doc…
Google opens Home MCP so AI agents can control smart-home devices
On September 16, 2026, Google launched early access to Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets any MCP-capable agent (Antigravity, Claude, and others) monitor devices,…
Japan's CADDi raises ~$121M Series D for manufacturing procurement AI
Tokyo-based CADDi announced a Series D of about 17.7 billion yen (roughly $121M) on September 15, 2026, with backers including Salesforce Ventures, Moore Strategic Ventures, and Wo…
Apple opens English public beta of rebuilt, Gemini-powered Siri
On September 15, 2026 Apple opened the English public beta of its rebuilt Siri, powered by custom models built with Google Gemini and split between on-device and Apple's Private Cl…
Perplexity ships on-device Portable Computer agent in its Windows app
On September 15, 2026 Perplexity launched a local AI agent in its Windows app for Nvidia GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM. The model, agent harness, orchestr…
Salesforce Dreamforce 2026 runs Sept 15 to 17 in San Francisco
Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce's flagship conference, runs September 15 to 17, 2026 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, drawing an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 in-person attendees. This…
Scotland's iGii raises £22.7M for 3D carbon nanomaterial sensors and batteries
Stirling-based iGii announced £22.7M in total funding around September 15, 2026, split between £11.7M equity and £11M public support, from the Scottish National Investment Bank, Ar…
Stockholm's Tandem Health raises $100M Series B for an AI clinical operating system
Tandem Health raised EUR 86.49 million (about $100 million) in a Series B led by the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, announced September 14, 2026. The startup is expanding from AI…
Brussels' Chift raises EUR 10.5M for a unified API to 120+ business finance systems
Chift raised a EUR 10.5 million Series A led by BlackFin Capital Partners, announced September 14, 2026. Its unified API connects business software to more than 120 financial syste…
Web Summit returns to Lisbon November 9 to 12, 2026
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9 to 12 at the MEO Arena and FIL in Lisbon, Portugal. Organizers expect more than 70,000 attendees from over 160 countries, 900-plus speakers and 2,00…
Hong Kong's Qupital secures $300M to fund e-commerce sellers with AI underwriting
Qupital announced roughly $300 million in combined equity and asset-backed financing on September 13, 2026, with M Capital leading and MUFG and Quester Capital participating. It pr…
EU Data Act data-access obligations now apply as of September 12, 2026
The core data-access and data-sharing obligations of the EU Data Act became applicable on September 12, 2026. The rules give users of connected products and related services the ri…
AIDIN Robotics lands KRW 16B from HD Hyundai and Samsung
South Korea's AIDIN Robotics closed a KRW 16 billion strategic round on September 11, 2026, backed by HD Hyundai Robotics and Samsung Venture Investment. The financing pairs the ro…
Copenhagen's Seed Capital closes EUR 130M Fund V for Nordic seed to Series A
Seed Capital closed its EUR 130 million Fund V on September 11, 2026 to back Nordic startups from seed through Series A. The new fund expands one of the region's most active early-…
DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash at $0.15 per million input tokens
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash on September 10, 2026, priced at $0.15 per million uncached input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens off-peak (double during 01:00-04:00 and 06…
Paris-based Arlequin AI raises EUR 28M for LLM-alternative topological neural networks
Arlequin AI closed a EUR 28 million Series A on September 10, 2026, co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures with Bpifrance's Defence Innovation Fund and Xavier Niel joining. Its topol…
Slush 2026 returns to Helsinki on November 18 to 19 with 13,000+ founders
Slush 2026, the founder-focused startup event, takes place November 18 to 19, 2026 in Helsinki and draws more than 13,000 founders, VCs, and executives for curated matchmaking, key…
India's Swish raises $24M Series B for 10-minute food delivery
Swish, an India-based startup delivering prepared food in about ten minutes, raised a $24 million Series B on September 10, 2026, backed by Bertelsmann India Investments. The round…
Graph AI raises $13.3M for pharma safety and adverse-event software
India-based Graph AI raised a $13.3 million post-seed round on September 10, 2026, from Insight Partners and Bessemer. Its software automates pharmaceutical safety and adverse-even…
Australia's Metacognition AI raises $10M for an AI operating-system layer
Australian lab Metacognition AI announced a roughly $10 million round on September 10, 2026, led by CSIRO-backed VC Main Sequence. It is building an operating-system layer that sit…
Bending Spoons agrees to buy collaboration workspace Miro for $1.355B
On September 10, 2026 Bending Spoons entered a definitive agreement to acquire 100 percent of Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion (about EUR 1.7 billion), an all-cash dea…
EU unveils Public Procurement Act to simplify bids and widen SME access
The European Commission published its Public Procurement Act on September 9, 2026, replacing the three 2014 procurement directives with one directly applicable Regulation for publi…
Clay raises $115M Series D at a $7.1B valuation for its AI go to market engine
Clay announced a $115M Series D on September 9, 2026, led by Wellington with Sequoia and a16z, doubling its valuation to $7.1B from August 2025. It now serves 17,000+ customers, in…
European Commission proposes Innovation Act to unlock €10.2B/year for startups
On September 9, 2026 the European Commission proposed a new European Innovation Act to help startups and scaleups finance and grow in the EU. It would create a common EU IP-valuati…
India's QNu Labs raises Rs 200 crore Series A1 for quantum-safe security
On September 9, 2026 Bengaluru-based QNu Labs raised a Rs 200 crore (about $24M) Series A1 plus a Rs 150 crore convertible facility. The company builds quantum-safe cybersecurity a…
Japan's Algomatic Dynamics lands 5B yen for physical-AI robotics
On September 9, 2026 Tokyo-based Algomatic Dynamics announced a 5 billion yen (about $34M) first financing to build robotics and physical AI, including motion-data collection and d…
UK's CloudNC raises $20M for AI-driven CNC machining
UK-based CloudNC raised $20 million on September 9, 2026, from Nimble Ventures, Calculus VC and LM Ventures. Its software uses AI to automate programming for CNC precision-machinin…
Mistral AI raises record 3B euro Series D led by Samsung at 21B euro value
France's Mistral AI closed a 3 billion euro (about $3.5B) Series D led by Samsung Electronics on September 8, 2026, with co-leads EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity, lifting…
OpenHands 1.0 ships production self-hosted coding agent at 68% SWE-bench Verified
The open-source autonomous coding agent OpenHands reached its 1.0 release on September 8, 2026, adding Docker sandboxing, built-in security policies, resource limits and a plugin s…
Meta launches Muse, a US only personal AI agent that books travel and sends email
Meta debuted Muse on September 8, 2026, a personal AI agent for users 18+ that opens a browser, fills forms and executes multi step tasks like booking travel or drafting a business…
OpenAI launches GPT Image 2.5 with faster Flare and Sunburst APIs
On September 8, 2026 OpenAI released GPT Image 2.5, exposing two developer APIs: Flare, its fastest model generating high-quality images at two to four times the speed of GPT-Image…
Nairobi's ARC Ride raises $33.3M Series A for battery-swap electric mobility
Kenya-based ARC Ride raised a $33.3 million Series A announced September 8, 2026, co-led by Norrsken22 and Novastar Ventures with IFC, British International Investment and Proparco…
Jet Zero closes A$30M with Qantas, Airbus and POSCO for sustainable aviation fuel
On September 7, 2026, Australian clean-energy startup Jet Zero completed an A$30 million financing backed by Qantas, Airbus, and new strategic investor POSCO International, taking…
Pixxel raises $100M Series C led by Temasek to scale hyperspectral satellites
On September 7, 2026, Earth-observation startup Pixxel announced a $100 million Series C co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, with 360 ONE Asset, IMM Investment, Radical Ventures, and g…
Anthropic's Claude produces first computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Announced September 4, 2026, Anthropic says Claude ran largely autonomously for 11 days to produce the first end-to-end, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. Th…
GitHub Copilot adds parallel agent sessions and a unified Copilot experience
In its September 4, 2026 changelog, GitHub added parallel agent sessions to the Copilot app, letting multiple AI tasks run independently in separate Git worktrees, and introduced a…
African fintech Moment raises $22M Series A for pan-African payment rails
Ghana-based Moment raised a $22M Series A on September 4, 2026, led by Speedinvest and QED Investors, with Global Founders Capital and FJ Labs participating. The three-year-old com…
Singapore's Hivebotics raises $6M Series A for robotic restroom cleaning
Hivebotics raised a $6M Series A on September 4, 2026, led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, with Fareast Land Development and Rigel participating. The company builds arti…
Belgian cleantech Octave.energy raises EUR 10M to scale battery storage in Europe
Mechelen-based Octave.energy raised a EUR 10M Series A (equity plus flexible debt) on September 4, 2026, led by SPDG Growth, with imec.istart, BNP Paribas Fortis, and KBC participa…
Nvidia agrees to buy AI hub Hugging Face for about $13B
Nvidia announced on Sept 3, 2026 a definitive deal to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $12.93 billion, pledging to keep it an open platform where Nvidia compute is not required. Hu…
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra with 1M+ context at $10/$50 per million tokens
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra (API id gpt-6-astra) on Sept 3, 2026, priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, with cached input at $1. It carries an ~1.1M-to…
New Zealand's Outlier Space raises NZ$10.5M pre-seed for orbital manufacturing
Auckland-based Outlier Space announced a NZ$10.5 million (about US$7.35M) pre-seed on Sept 3, 2026, backed by GD1, Airtree, Side Stage Ventures, and Investible. The startup aims to…
Munich's Zeit AI raises EUR 5M seed for autonomous data engineering
Zeit AI, based in Munich, raised a EUR 5 million seed round on Sept 3, 2026 with backing from Y Combinator, Oxford Seed Fund, a Sequoia Capital scout fund, ACE Ventures, and Hasso…
Ultrahuman raises $70M to turn its smart ring into a computer
Bengaluru-based Ultrahuman raised $70 million ($65M equity, $5M debt) on Sept 3, 2026 at a $365 million valuation, led by Qualcomm Ventures with Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume Ventures…
Belgium's Backbone raises EUR 4M pre-seed for food-industry compliance
Brussels-based Backbone announced a EUR 4 million pre-seed on Sept 3, 2026, backed by Pitchdrive, PROfounders Capital, Passion Capital, 100IN, Agristo, and Darta. The platform cons…
Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting agent costs ~45%
On September 2, 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 (broadly available) and Mythos 5.1 (restricted to vetted organizations), citing about 45% lower costs for agentic workloads…
Photonics chip startup iPronics raises $125M led by Nvidia for AI data centers
On September 2, 2026 Spanish semiconductor startup iPronics announced a $125 million funding round led by Nvidia and other investors. The capital backs its programmable photonic ne…
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash launches at $0.75/$3.75 per million, doubling in 2027
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on Sept 2, 2026 with a 1,048,576-token context window, priced at $0.75 input and $3.75 output per million tokens through Dec 31, 2026. The rate is…
Perplexity adds hybrid compute to its Computer agent, splitting cloud and local Macs
On September 2, 2026 Perplexity launched a hybrid-compute capability for its Computer agent that divides a single AI task between cloud models and models running locally on Apple s…
Meta ships Muse Spark 1.3, cutting tool calls ~20% and tokens ~25%
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on Sept 2, 2026 at $1.25 input and $4.25 output per million tokens with a 1,048,576-token context window, claiming roughly 20% fewer tool calls and 25%…
Google, Anthropic and OpenAI gate top cyber AI models behind vetted-access programs
In early September 2026, the three labs restricted their most cyber-capable models to trusted-defender programs: Google's Fairwind (Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, over 650 partners includ…
How to Web returns to Bucharest October 6 to 8, 2026 with OpenAI and Stripe
How to Web Conference 2026 runs October 6 to 8 at Face Convention Center in Bucharest, with an Investors Summit and satellite events opening October 6. Organizers expect 500+ found…
South Korea proposes record $597B 2027 budget centered on AI and chips
On 1 September 2026 South Korea proposed a record 821 trillion won (about $597 billion) 2027 budget that names AI and semiconductors as strategic national priorities. The plan sign…
3D-AI maker Tripo (VAST) raises ~$446M Series B for foundation models
On 1 September 2026 VAST, developer of Tripo AI, announced roughly 3 billion yuan (~$446 million) across Series B and Series B+ rounds led by MPCi, with backers including Perfect W…
Proptech raises $8.7B in 2026 as four of five biggest deals land outside the US
Global real estate tech startups raised about $8.7B across 794 deals through August 2026, down from $12.3B in all of 2025. Four of the five largest 2026 deals were outside the US,…
Antler residency applications close September 30, 2026 for pre-team founders
Antler is accepting free applications through September 30, 2026 for its global residency, which backs pre-team founders at the earliest possible stage across 30+ locations. Reside…
Web Summit returns to Lisbon Nov 9-12, 2026, one of tech's largest gatherings
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9-12 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal, historically drawing 70,000+ attendees including founders, investors and press. The 2026 speaker lineup inc…
Slush 2026 gathers 12,000 founders and investors in Helsinki on Nov 18-19
Slush 2026 takes place November 18-19 (Day 0 on Nov 17) at Messukeskus in Helsinki, expecting 12,000+ attendees, roughly 76% of whom are startups or investors, with over 25,000 sch…
DeepSeek ships experimental V4-Flash-Vision multimodal model on Hugging Face
On August 31, 2026 DeepSeek published V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a roughly 305B-parameter experimental multimodal model, on Hugging Face under the permissive MIT license. It shows substa…
EU designates ChatGPT under the Digital Services Act, first standalone AI service
On August 31, 2026 the European Commission designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act (alongside Reddit and Roblox as VLOPs), c…
EuroHPC signs 387.8M euro contract for LUMI-AI supercomputer in Finland
On Aug 31, 2026 the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking signed a 387.8M euro contract with Bull to build LUMI-AI, powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 6th-gen EPYC CPUs at CSC in Kajaani,…
S-Transistors raises 2.6M euro pre-seed for superconducting quantum control chips
Finland-based S-Transistors (Espoo) raised a 2.6M euro pre-seed round on Aug 31, 2026, led by Lifeline Ventures with an angel investor. The company builds superconducting transisto…
Apate.AI raises A$11.4M seed for adversarial anti-scam AI agents
On Aug 31, 2026, Apate.AI (founded in Sydney, now Delaware-incorporated) closed an A$11.4M (about US$8.15M) seed round led by Lobby Capital. Its AI agents impersonate potential sca…
Huawei Cloud opens CodeArts Agent coding platform to international users
On Aug 28, 2026 Huawei Cloud moved CodeArts Agent from public beta to general availability across Asia Pacific, launching commercially in Singapore. The platform orchestrates 16 sp…
Tencent open-sources Hy4, a 770B model with 1M context under Apache 2.0
On August 28, 2026 Tencent released and open-sourced its Hunyuan Hy4 preview: a 770B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model activating 49B parameters per token, with a 1-million-token…
NVIDIA ships TensorRT Model Connect: Hugging Face checkpoint to C++ in two commands
On Aug 28, 2026, NVIDIA released TensorRT Model Connect, an open collection of reference implementations that turns a Hugging Face or local checkpoint into native C++ inference wit…
Alibaba Cloud opens two Brazil data centers, expanding to 106 zones across 31 regions
On Aug 28, 2026 Alibaba launched two data centers in Brazil, expanding its cloud footprint to 106 availability zones across 31 regions worldwide. The move deepens low-latency cloud…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100+ firms urge joint defense against AI cyberattacks
On Aug 27, 2026 more than 100 companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta and Fortinet signed an open letter warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks wi…
Kioxia and SanDisk to invest over $31B in Japanese flash-memory plants
On Aug 27, 2026, Kioxia and SanDisk announced plans to invest more than $31B (about 5 trillion yen) through 2032 in their Yokkaichi and Kitakami NAND plants, subject to government…
France's Lupin Dental raises 15M euro Series A for dental robotics
Paris-based Lupin Dental raised a 15 million euro Series A around Aug 27-28, 2026, led by Fynveur (10 million euro) with existing shareholders, private investors and Bpifrance loan…
AusperBio raises $120M Series C for hepatitis B therapy
AusperBio Therapeutics raised a $120 million Series C on Aug 27, 2026 to advance its lead hepatitis B candidate AHB-137 through a Phase 3 registrational program, backed by RA Capit…
Z.ai ships GLM-5.3-Flash: 1M-context multimodal coding model at ~1/10 the price
On Aug 26, 2026 China's Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter (18B active) mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context and native image/video input, under an MIT licen…
Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk on Sept 30, 2026
Amazon confirmed it will close Mechanical Turk (MTurk) on September 30, 2026, and is also closing SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) to new users. The moves retir…
IBM releases open Granite 4.2 models (3B–30B) under Apache 2.0
On Aug 26, 2026 IBM released Granite 4.2, a family of open models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes with a 128,000-token context window under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. Th…
South Korea's WRTN Technologies hits unicorn scale with ~$72M Series C
On Aug 26, 2026 South Korean AI startup WRTN Technologies raised about $72.2 million in Series C funding at a valuation above 1 trillion won (~$722M), reaching unicorn scale. The c…
UK energytech Certain Energy raises GBP 10M Series A led by British Business Bank
UK long-duration storage startup Certain Energy (formerly RFC Power, an Imperial College spin-out) closed a GBP 10M (~EUR 11.6M) Series A on August 26, 2026, led by the government-…
India's Purple Style Labs raises $40M Series E to scale luxury fashion
Indian luxury-fashion company Purple Style Labs, parent of Pernia's Pop-Up Shop, raised a $40M Series E on August 26, 2026 with participation from SageOne, Alchemy Capital and Baja…
Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce, embedding Claude across the CRM
On Aug 26, 2026 Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, making Claude a default reasoning model across Agentforce, Slack and developer tools. It ships with a 'Salesforce in…
Ex-Prometheus founders launch physics-first AI processing 5T data points
Accelerated Understanding, founded by researchers who declined a Bezos-backed Project Prometheus offer (~35% stake and $2B+ committed), unveiled a physics-first AI model on Aug 25,…
Stability AI raises $76M with Universal, Sony, Warner and EA backing
Stability AI, maker of Stable Diffusion, raised $76M in fresh funding announced Aug 25, 2026, with participation from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, a…
Perplexity in talks to raise at $30B+ as revenue tops $750M annualized
As of August 24, 2026 Perplexity is discussing a new equity round valuing it above $30B, up from roughly $20B a year earlier. Its annualized revenue climbed from under $250M at the…
Robotics-AI startup Generalist raises $200M, second round in two months
Generalist AI reportedly raised ~$200M led by 8VC on Aug 24, 2026, just two months after a $400M round backed by Nvidia and Bezos Expeditions. Its new Gen-1.5 model teaches robots…
XPeng's humanoid-robot unit raises $900M+ at a $6.3B valuation
XPeng's humanoid-robotics business raised over $900M in its first external round at a $6.3B+ valuation, announced Aug 24, 2026, led by IDG Capital and Gaorong Ventures with strateg…
Alibaba launches Wan3.0 AI model that turns documents into 30-second videos
On August 24, 2026 Alibaba unveiled Wan3.0, an AI video model that generates roughly 30-second videos directly from documents and spreadsheets. Alibaba paired the launch with a rep…
Embedd raises $2.7M to cut cross-chip software-integration work
Embedd raised a $2.7M pre-seed led by Seedcamp, announced Aug 24, 2026, to build developer infrastructure that reduces the software-integration work of supporting different chip pl…
State Dept makes visa bond pilot permanent for some B-1/B-2 applicants Aug 3
Effective Aug 3, 2026, the Department of State finalized regulations making the Visa Bond Pilot Program a permanent requirement for certain B-1 (business visitor) and B-2 (tourist)…
EU AI Act transparency rules now enforceable, fines up to 3% of global turnover
From 2 August 2026 the EU Commission's AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act's transparency duties: chatbots must disclose they are AI, deepfakes and AI-gen…
EU AI Act's main obligations now apply as of Aug 2, 2026
On August 2, 2026 the bulk of the EU AI Act became applicable, including Article 50 transparency duties (disclosing chatbots and labeling AI-generated content, the latter deferred…
EU AI Act enforcement against general-purpose AI providers goes live
As of August 2, 2026 the European Commission can actively investigate and fine providers of general-purpose AI models under the EU AI Act. Duties include technical documentation, d…
EU AI Act enforcement powers over general-purpose AI models now active
Since August 2, 2026, the European Commission's supervision and enforcement powers over general-purpose AI (GPAI) model providers under the EU AI Act are in force, backed by the AI…
State Dept moves US visa services in 24 African posts to 20 regional hubs Aug 1
Effective Aug 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of State realigned routine visa services from 24 embassies/consulates (including Abuja, Harare, Lusaka, Maputo, Windhoek) to 20 regional…
Techstars Founder Catalyst Fall 2026: free, equity-free virtual pre-accelerator
Techstars is running its Founder Catalyst Global Fall 2026 pre-accelerator, a 10-week, fully virtual, non-equity and free program from Sept 22 to Nov 27, 2026. Applications close A…
Web Summit returns to Lisbon Nov 9-12, 2026 with 70,000+ attendees
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9-12 in Lisbon (Nov 9 is a pre-conference registration/mentorship day), gathering 70,000+ founders, investors and operators. Early registration is run…
Web Summit Lisbon returns Nov 9-12, 2026 with a startup program
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9-12 at the MEO/Altice Arena and FIL in Lisbon, expecting 70,000+ attendees from 160+ countries, 2,300+ startups, and 1,200+ investors. Attendee ticke…
Sifted Summit 2026 gathers 3,000+ founders in London Sept 30-Oct 1
Sifted Summit 2026 takes place September 30-October 1 at Magazine London, convening 3,000+ founders, operators, and investors with programming built for Series A+ companies. Ticket…
Bits & Pretzels founders festival returns to Munich Sept 28-30, 2026
Europe's leading founders festival runs September 28-30 at Munich's ICM, hosting 7,500 curated attendees including 1,500+ VCs, 300+ LPs, and 600+ executives across 10+ content stag…
India operationalizes Rs 10,000 crore Startup Fund of Funds 2.0 through SIDBI
DPIIT issued operational guidelines on April 27, 2026 for the Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0, a Rs 10,000 crore (about US$1.08 billion) corpus run initially by SIDBI. The fund com…
Qatar launches 10-year golden visa pathways for entrepreneurs and executives
Qatar unveiled two new long-term residency pathways—one for entrepreneurs and one for executives—offering five-year permits renewable up to 10 years without a real-estate investmen…
Greece adds startup investment route to Golden Visa from EUR 250,000
Greece has operationalized a new Golden Visa pathway granting five-year residency to non-EU investors who put at least EUR 250,000 into a startup registered on the Elevate Greece n…