Filmmakers worldwide can compete for $1 million by creating an original short film with Seedance, with entries closing November 20, 2026. A doll belonging to his daughter became the inspiration behind a million-dollar film. In January 2026, Tunisian filmmaker Zoubeir Jlassi won the inaugural AI Film Award for Lily, a nine-minute story about a man […]
Backed by 22/x, Context Labs plans to establish an Abu Dhabi headquarters and expand verifiable industrial AI across the Middle East. Abu Dhabi’s latest AI infrastructure investment targets a critical foundation of enterprise intelligence: data that companies can verify, control, and trust. Context Labs is bringing this approach to the Middle East with strategic backing […]
Anthropic has filed to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, revealing a company growing at extraordinary speed but carrying equally unusual financial, infrastructure and governance risks. The Claude maker generated $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026, up from $1.16 billion in the same period a year earlier, while reporting […]
Danish proptech startup Cortas has raised approximately €1.47 million in a pre-seed round backed by PSV Tech, JRNY Capital, EIFO and experienced tech entrepreneurs, including founders of Flatpay and Spirii. Its two founders have moved from property investment at major Danish real estate investor Thylander Group into property management. Their vision is to build a […]
Thorpe Mandeville, UK, 20 th October 2026: Skyfly Technologies, the British developer of electric and hybrid-electric vertically capable aircraft, has closed a $10 million seed round led by specialist growth equity investor, HICO Investment Group, with participation from Archangel, Europe’s only dedicated next-generation defence technology fund. The investment takes the Axe, Skyfly’s two-seat electric aircraft […]
Enzo Ventures has today revealed more details around its second fund, Enzo Ventures II. It’s a €20 million fund focused on investing on pre-seed rounds with tickets between €250,000 and €600,000. It invests on B2B technology, AI and software companies, and has broadened its thesis to invest also on software companies with bridge to the […]
Bengaluru, India. – 16 October 2026 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the launch of the 15th cohort of its flagship startup accelerator program, NetApp Excellerator, welcoming five startups driving the next wave of AI innovation in the global deep tech ecosystem. The new cohort focuses on AI-powered software engineering, […]
Most education funding rounds are bets on software. Mesa School of Business is a bet on the campus itself. The Bengaluru institution has raised ₹110 crore, comprising roughly ₹85 crore in Series A equity co-led by Dharana Capital and existing investor Elevation Capital, plus ₹25 crore in venture debt from InnoVen Capital and Alteria Capital. […]
AI funding this week was less about another race for the biggest model and more about everything required to put advanced intelligence to work. Capital moved into autonomous workflows, AI evaluation, runtime security, observability, developer infrastructure and enterprise data. Outside software, investors backed robotics, quantum computing, neural chips, satellite communications, healthcare infrastructure and agricultural intelligence. […]
The Trump administration has suspended 8 major technology companies from the U.S. Permanent Labor Certification process, creating new uncertainty for foreign professionals who depend on employer sponsorship to build a long-term career in the United States. The companies named by Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling are Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe. The […]
The British Business Bank today announces a commitment of £10 million to the Fuel Ventures funds, made through the Bank’s Regional Angels Programme. A Programme launched in 2019 to address imbalances in access to early-stage equity finance, targeting angel networks and other early-stage investors to help enhance access to capital for businesses across diverse sectors. […]
An ecommerce brand can know that you spent $186.40, opened three emails, bought twice in six months and used a discount code on your first order. It can still have no idea who you are. OuterSignal was built around that strange imbalance. Modern commerce software remembers transactions exceptionally well, yet the relationship behind those transactions […]
If you use AI regularly for work, you have probably ended up in one of those tedious prompting loops where you spend precious, and frankly unproductive, minutes explaining the same thing again. Paste in the writing rules. Explain what belongs in the board update. Describe how the slide deck should be structured. Remind Gemini which […]
AI has made the first version of an app almost suspiciously easy to create. Describe an idea, wait a few minutes and a polished interface appears on screen. But for founders trying to build a mobile business, that impressive demo is often where the easy part ends. The app still has to work on a […]
For most of enterprise AI’s short history, the risk ended with the answer. A chatbot could summarise a document, draft an email or suggest a next step, but a person still decided what happened afterward. AI agents change that bargain. Once software can update a CRM, query a financial system, call internal tools or trigger […]