Page 11 of 39. Curated founder updates, each a verified fact plus a clear angle.
At Startup Summit 2026 (Aug 26), Sebrae/SC and Bossa Invest launched the 6th edition of the Inova Startups program, with gross capital of R$20 million and up to R$800 thousand inve…
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…
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…
OpenAI announced first results for Jalapeno, its in-house AI inference ASIC co-developed with Broadcom, claiming 1.5x-1.9x higher throughput per kilowatt and 1.7x-3.6x lower end-to…
On August 26, 2026, FedDev Ontario announced nearly $15 million in non-repayable funding for nine organizations supporting Black entrepreneurs across southern Ontario, with funding…
Registrations for the 6th edition of Inova Startups opened on August 26, 2026 during Startup Summit in Florianopolis and run through November 30, 2026, with results on February 28,…
The Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 2) Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 26 August 2026, permanently setting the small-business instant asset write-off at $20,000 per asset…
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 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-…
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…
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…
On August 25, 2026 DHS published a proposed rule adding a $103,265 fee to every cap-subject H-1B petition, on top of existing fees. It excludes cap-exempt filings, extensions, amen…
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,…
On August 25, 2026, BDC announced an expansion of its Pivot to Grow loan to help small businesses absorb cash-flow pressure from new U.S. tariffs imposed August 22, 2026. Eligible…
In its August 25, 2026 $7.5-billion tariff-support package, the federal government added $1.5 billion to the Regional Tariff Response Initiative delivered by Canada's seven Regiona…
The average proptech seed round rose to $6.3M in 2026 (up from $3.6M in 2022), with more than half now $5M or larger, per MetaProp tracking cited by Commercial Observer on Aug 25,…
On 25 August 2026 Blackbird closed its sixth fund at AUD $1.05 billion, the largest VC raise in Australia and New Zealand, lifting total assets under management above AUD $12.5 bil…
On August 25, 2026, the federal government announced a new $2 billion Canada Strong Diversification Fund as part of a $7.5B tariff-relief package. It backs shovel-ready capital-mai…
Blackbird announced on 25 August 2026 the final close of its sixth venture fund at A$1.05 billion, the largest venture capital fund in Australia and New Zealand. LPs include the Fu…
On 25 August 2026 Ottawa and BDC expanded the Pivot to Grow loan, adding a $500-million liquidity stream with financing starting at $250,000 and up to $5 million per borrower. Elig…