Page 8 of 39. Curated founder updates, each a verified fact plus a clear angle.
Applications for Y Combinator's Winter 2027 batch are due November 2, 2026 at 8pm PT, with decisions by December 11; the batch runs January to March 2027 in person at YC's San Fran…
Real estate tech startups have raised roughly $8.7 billion across 794 deals so far in 2026, on pace to match or slightly exceed 2025's $12.3 billion, per Crunchbase News. Capital i…
From 1 September 2026, Singapore's S Pass qualifying salary rose to S$3,300 a month for most sectors (up from S$3,150) and S$3,800 for financial services, both increasing progressi…
WomensNet awards three $10,000 Amber Grants to women-owned businesses every month, and monthly winners compete for one of three $50,000 year-end grants. The current cycle's applica…
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,…
SF Tech Week, presented by a16z, runs October 5-11, 2026, followed by LA Tech Week October 12-18. It is made up of hundreds of independently hosted sessions: some are free with RSV…
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…
Delaware's EDGE Grant awards up to $750,000 to early-stage STEM businesses and up to $400,000 to non-STEM small businesses, with the current application round closing September 11,…
On 1 Sept 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore released a public consultation on legislative amendments to the Payment Services Act 2019 to implement its stablecoin regulatory…
Under CGSN Resolution No. 189/2026 (published in the Official Gazette on April 28, 2026), all microenterprises and small businesses in Simples Nacional must issue their service inv…
A DealStreetAsia-Kickstart Ventures report covered by e27 found Singapore took 78.1% of Southeast Asia's equity funding value in 2025, about US$4.2 billion, and 61.4% of the region…
Texas Woman's University's StartUP Grant is accepting applications through 5:00 p.m. Central on September 23, 2026, awarding between $1,000 and $10,000. Eligible businesses must be…
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 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…
On 1 September 2026 Gridsight announced a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners for software that reveals available utility grid capacity to help site data centers and other…
On 1 September 2026 SciFin announced a $44 million seed round led by Altimeter and Madrona for an enterprise AI context layer that connects customer and forecasting data so AI syst…
Austin-based Light raised a $46 million Series A on Sept 1, 2026, led by Matrix with Activate Capital, Spark Capital, Mischief, Gigascale, MCJ, and BoxGroup. Light applies an embed…
On August 31, 2026 Nvidia agreed to buy $3.5 billion of MediaTek convertible bonds, the bulk of a broader $3.9 billion offering (Alphabet also participated), deepening their AI-chi…
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…
OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising business crossed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate as of August 31, 2026, fewer than 200 days after its February 2026 pilot launch. It marks the…