Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

NewCore Raises $66 Million to Build Identity Controls for AI Agents Entering the Workforce

NewCore raised $66M to secure AI agents identity, giving enterprises new tools to authenticate, govern and revoke digital workers.

AI layoffs are soaring as tech profits rise, fueling skepticism that automation is a cover story for overhiring and cost-cutting.

Salesforce is buying AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B to boost Agentforce and expand enterprise AI agents.

AI unicorn Sarvam raised $234M at a $1.5B valuation, led by HCLTech, as India pushes for sovereign AI and homegrown models.

SpaceX valuation tops $2.7T after a stock rally and Cursor acquisition, passing Amazon in a market driven by AI and infrastructure bets.

Probably raised $9M to build AI reliability tools that prevent hallucinations with deterministic validators and smaller models.

SpaceX agrees to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60B in stock, expanding Musk’s AI push days after the company’s blockbuster IPO.

Malaysia’s AI messaging app Respond.io raised $62.5M to expand in North America and Europe and accelerate acquisitions.

AI notetakers maker Plaud says it shipped 2 million devices and topped $100M in ARR, signaling real traction for AI hardware.

GLM-5.2 review: Z.ai launches a 1M-token coding model with new reasoning modes, staged access, and benchmark questions.