Page 10 of 39. Curated founder updates, each a verified fact plus a clear angle.
On Aug 28, 2026, Anthropic made Claude for Teachers available to US K-12 schools and districts as a free Enterprise offering with SSO, role-based controls, and standards-aligned te…
On Aug 28, 2026 Hugging Face launched Microduck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot with 15 motors, a camera and lidar, targeting first deliveries before Christmas in North America a…
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…
Lone Palm Labs, maker of friend-focused photo app Retro, raised more than $21M in Series A on Aug 28, 2026, led by Field Ventures (Dylan Field) and Thrive Capital. Built by ex-Inst…
On Aug 28, 2026, Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider Lambda closed about $1B in senior secured private debt, arranged by JPMorgan, to fund chips tied to its Microsoft collaboration. La…
On Aug 27, 2026 CivilGrid raised a $26M Series A led by Spark Capital. The company builds underground-utility mapping and infrastructure-planning software, part of an investor tilt…
CBRE reported H1 2026 North American data center vacancy held at 1.4%, leaving under 1,500 MW available across primary markets, roughly six months of supply. Over 80% of the record…
On Aug 27, 2026, Xinhua reported that China's six major state-owned banks plus roughly 400 total institutions (21 nationwide banks and qualified local lenders) began implementing a…
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…
Yardstik raised a $30 million Series B on Aug 27, 2026, led by Harbert Growth Partners with Rally Ventures, MissionOG, Crosslink Capital and others, bringing total funding to $65 m…
The national median apartment rent rose 0.1% from July to August 2026, the first positive August reading since 2022, reaching $1,390, per Apartment List (reported by CNBC on Aug 27…
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…
On Aug 27, 2026 Agentrys announced $24.5M in combined seed and pre-seed funding, led by Etna Capital with MediaTek participating, to build AI agents for semiconductor verification…
On Aug 27, 2026 Onos Health announced a $17M Series A led by Costanoa Ventures to build behavioral-health AI for clinical intelligence and utilization analysis. It reflects sustain…
On Aug 27, 2026 Instinct announced a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark to build a consumer AI assistant that automates tasks across apps and devices. The size o…
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 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…
On Aug 26, 2026 Transfyr launched with $25M in seed funding led by General Catalyst, with Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures and others. Founded by ex-Ginkgo Bioworks AI lead Anna Mari…
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…
Vinnova's revamped Innovativa Startups 2026 call offers grants of up to SEK 500,000 (up from SEK 300,000 in the 2025 Phase 1) to test customer needs, business concept and willingne…