Category: Startups

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/openais-new-reasoning-technique-alarms-ai-safety-experts/

Italian obesity digital clinic Holifya raises €2M to scale AI-supported GLP-1 care Holifya, the first digital clinic in Italy focused on pharmacologic treatment of obesity through AI and advanced diagnostics, has raised €2 million investment. The round, which is €1.6 million in equity and €0.4 million in debt capital and

Instarc raises €1.25M to scale its cloud-native compliance platform Tallinn-based regtech company Instarc has secured a €1.25 million strategic investment to support the commercial rollout of its cloud-native compliance platform in South Africa. The investment was led by HFO Investments, with Athena Capital and Option 3 Capital advising on the

Cummins joins Emerald Technology Ventures as LP to accelerate industrial innovation Large US industrial and power technology company, Cummins, best known historically for making diesel engines, particularly for trucks and heavy machinery. has joined Emerald Technology Ventures as a Limited Partner. Emerald was founded in 2000 and manages and advises

Cambridge University spinout launches AI model “competitive” with OpenAI and Anthropic A Cambridge University spinout has today launched a “frontier-class” generalist AI model which it says is competitive with OpenAI and Anthropic’s leading models and can be deployed locally.  Flower Labs is a London and Hamburg-based startup which lets companies train

INLEAP Photonics raises €20M to expand laser counter-drone systems German deeptech company INLEAP Photonics has raised approximately €20 million in seed funding to scale its laser-based counter-drone technology for defence and critical infrastructure applications. The round was led by UVC Partners, with participation from HTGF in Germany, Poland’s Balnord, Estonia’s

Daniel Ek-founded Neko Health tops latest Sifted’s Nordic ranking Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/neko-health-tops-2026-nordics-ranking/

Long hours and stress don’t mean your startup is toxic Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/honest-about-startup-toxicity/

AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/afterquery-reportedly-becomes-y-combinators-fastest-ever-unicorn-now-valued-at-3-2b/

Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name Apple Maps is following President Trump’s executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/apple-follows-google-in-adopting-trumps-lake-america-name/