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EarthScale launches new €5.8 million push to boost UK ClimateTech startups
- EarthScale, a UK-wide initiative supported by €5.8 million from the Research England Development Fund, aims to boost ClimateTech startups by helping them move from early-stage innovation to scalable production.
- The 12-month programme involves at least 60 climate-focused startups and provides access to top-tier universities in the UK, offering technical expertise, facilities, strategic scaling advice, and more.
- The initiative leverages the innovation legacies of partner institutions like Imperial College London, Cranfield University, University of Exeter, University of Leeds, and University of Nottingham to support startups' growth.
- EarthScale has already shown success in nurturing startups such as Notpla, Nium, and Multus Biotechnology, with a focus on tackling plastic pollution, low-energy ammonia production, and animal-free growth media for cultivated meat.
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AbhiBus partners with Germany-based CheckMyBus to simplify bus travel in India
- AbhiBus partners with Germany-based CheckMyBus to simplify bus travel in India through a strategic partnership.
- CheckMyBus will integrate AbhiBus's extensive network of bus operators and routes, making it easier for travelers to search and book intercity and last-mile bus journeys across India.
- The partnership enhances the visibility of India’s bus network globally, facilitating tourists in planning and booking end-to-end journeys across the country.
- AbhiBus offers tech-forward features like live bus tracking, fare comparisons, and safety options, reinforcing its position as a leading bus aggregator in India.
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UAE: The Perfect Launch Pad for AI-Driven Entrepreneurship? Yes.
- The UAE offers a supportive infrastructure for AI-driven entrepreneurship with various advantages.
- Strategic location bridges East and West markets, providing access to three continents.
- Government initiatives, including UAE AI Strategy 2031, support AI adoption and offer financial aid.
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The 11 Largest US Funding Rounds of May 2025
- The largest US startup funding rounds in May 2025 analyzed.
- Companies like Statsig, TensorWave, LMArena, and Snorkel AI secured significant investments.
- Analysis includes industry focus, founding team, business model, and total funding history.
- Ventures span AI, data storage, HR tech, food delivery, and writing assistance.
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Israeli FinTech is Back with Momentum
- 2025 is proving to be a successful year for Israeli FinTech, highlighted by Melio's acquisition by Xero for up to $3 billion.
- Israel's FinTech sector is showing resilience and growth, attracting significant funding and housing valuable companies like Rapyd, Deel, Tipalti, eToro, Forter, and Fireblocks.
- Anticipated lower interest rates and advancements in AI are expected to drive a FinTech revival, offering opportunities for innovation and disruption across sectors like banking and healthcare.
- Israeli FinTech startups are maturing, raising larger rounds, expanding teams, and exploring public market opportunities, marking a pivotal moment for the industry.
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IPO-Bound Pine Labs Faces Tax Demands & Auditor Concerns
- IPO-bound fintech major Pine Labs is facing over INR 300 Cr in GST-related claims in India with the most recent tax demand of INR 214.1 Cr upheld by the GST Intelligence.
- Auditors flagged concerns around Pine Labs' internal financial controls, audit trail compliance, delays in statutory payments, and rising attrition rates.
- Pine Labs has contested tax demands, paid INR 1.93 Cr under protest, and faces challenges related to service tax non-payment from previous years.
- The company, aiming to raise INR 2,600 Cr via IPO, witnessed revenue growth of 32.9% in 9M FY25 and turned profitable, reporting a profit of INR 26.1 Cr.
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Decoding TDV Partners’ Investment Playbook For India’s Booming Spiritual Tech Market
- India witnesses a rise in startups merging faith, community, and tech post mega-events.
- Rapid digital adoption allows for virtual darshans, live pujas, astrology consultations, and more.
- Investors like Trillion Dollar Venture Partners show confidence in this evolving sector.
- TDV focuses on early-stage investments in startups creating transformative consumer experiences.
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The Unicorn Crack Mirror: How VC’s $1B Fantasies Exposed Society’s Fault Lines (And What…
- Unicorns may reflect pre-existing societal fractures, not cause them directly.
- The 'Unicorn Era' exacerbated inequality, precarious work, and digital echo chambers.
- Historian Gary Gerstle's framework sheds light on the neoliberal collapse and interregnum chaos.
- Venture capital landscape shifts post-2013 mirror geopolitical changes and neoliberal order collapse.
- Corporate investment strategies shifted in the interregnum towards compliance and system resilience.
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This startup is taking a new approach to building celebrity brands. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $5M.
- VO/D, a startup cofounded by Chris Koch, raises $5 million in funding.
- First brand 1UP Candy yields $10M revenue, expands into supplements and protein categories.
- VO/D plans to invest in more verticals, flipping the script by creating successful products first.
- Series A funding led by KarpReilly supports VO/D's celebrity-led ventures expansion.
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‘If you want to start a business to be a billionaire, you are an idiot’: Mukesh Ambani
- Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani shared his father's belief that businesses succeed by fulfilling people's needs.
- Mukesh Ambani emphasized on Reliance's impact-led business approach and the importance of clarity in goals and talent acquisition.
- He stated his loyalty to his father's vision, focusing on impacting a billion people rather than aiming solely for wealth.
- Ambani highlighted the importance of risk management by assessing worst-case scenarios and survival strategies, citing examples like Reliance Jio.
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SKIMS Proves Customer Experience Beats Star Power
- SKIMS, launched by Kim Kardashian in 2019, emphasizes customer experience over celebrity influence, achieving significant success.
- Customer loyalty is eroding due to rising prices, making customer experience a crucial competitive factor.
- SKIMS' focus on customer experience is evident with a high first-time buyer retention rate of 14% after 15 months.
- Innovations like real-time inventory tracking, Fit-Finder AI for sizing, and live commerce events have enhanced SKIMS' customer interactions and led to impressive revenue growth.
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What Founders Get Wrong About AI and How to Get It Right
- AI is a capability, not a feature, and should be tied to a real problem it solves.
- Founders need to embed AI in the value proposition, aligned with the business model.
- A structured approach, like an AI strategy consulting process, helps define goals and avoid misaligned efforts.
- AI projects require clear requirements, data quality, and collaboration across technical, design, and leadership teams.
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How Blockchain Technology Influences Financial Services
- Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the financial services sector by transforming traditional banking and payment systems, fostering innovation, and improving efficiency.
- The origins of blockchain trace back to the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto, offering a decentralized digital currency system.
- Blockchain enhances financial transactions by improving speed, security, and transparency, reducing delays in payments, enhancing security through cryptography, and fostering trust and accountability.
- Crypto exchanges play a crucial role in integrating blockchain into financial services, providing gateways to cryptocurrency markets, enhancing transaction processing times, and bridging the gap between traditional finance and the crypto world.
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Societe Generale Offloads ArisInfra Shares Worth INR 19 Cr Shortly After Listing
- Shortly after a poor listing, Societe Generale offloaded almost its entire stake in ArisInfra via block deal, selling 10.22 Lakh shares at INR 184.81 apiece, raking in INR 18.9 Cr.
- Citigroup Global Markets Mauritius and Nova Global Opportunities Fund PCC- Touchstone also sold shares in bulk deals, generating INR 9.93 Cr and INR 10.71 Cr, respectively.
- ArisInfra had an underwhelming public debut, listing at INR 205 on the NSE. Its shares traded lower, opening at INR 209 on the BSE and closing at INR 174.10, down 21.6% from the IPO price of INR 222.
- Despite the initial poor performance, ArisInfra's shares showed improvement on the second day of trading while the broader market saw a significant rally with Sensex up 1.1% and Nifty 50 up by about 1%.
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Bonfy.AI launches with platform to secure AI- and human-generated content
- Bonfy.AI Inc. has launched Adaptive Content Security, a platform designed to protect both AI- and human-generated content by using AI-powered business context and logic to reduce risks like oversharing, IP leakage, and privacy violations more accurately than traditional solutions.
- The platform analyzes and manages content risks from AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot, documents, emails, and communications from platforms such as Slack, eliminating false positives and blind spots associated with traditional data loss prevention tools.
- Bonfy ACS is agnostic to human-readable content, unstructured data, generation techniques, underlying models, and human edits, making it versatile for various applications such as software-as-a-service and custom applications, aiming to keep AI-generated content safe and compliant.
- The platform enforces communication and sharing policies, mitigates risks related to cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, IP protection, and reputation. Bonfy.AI has raised $9.5 million in seed funding and aims to transform content security for both AI and human-generated content.
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