There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old, Jersey City, New Jersey, startup that helps enterprises build AI agents, used its own AI agent to raise its ...

When contemplating Germany's startup scene, one tends to think of Berlin and Munich. But Hamburg is on a tear, with new data showing that more startups were founded in Hamburg than in Munich in the ...

BOSTON – The founder and chief executive of an artificial intelligence startup secretly pleaded guilty last year to participating in a vast scheme in which attorneys at major law firms tipped traders ...

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North American venture investment hit all-time highs in the first half of 2026, driven by late-stage megarounds for AI industry leaders, Crunchbase data shows. If that introductory sentence sounds ...

Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they’d documented the first known case of “agentic ransomware.” It was an extortion operation, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent — not a ...

Austin startups saw a downturn in funding over the past three months after starting the year with the strongest quarter on record. Data from Opportunity Austin, the region’s independent economic ...

Quantum Systems has raised $1.2 billion, the company announced on Thursday. The startup, which is developing autonomous defense systems, hit an $8 billion valuation on a post-money basis. Defense tech ...

Startups worldwide raised a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put ...

Global venture funding reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing the $440 billion invested in all of 2025 and setting a new high for startup investment in any half-year ...

Every accelerator cohort right now contains some variation of the same five companies: a productivity copilot, a sales automation platform, a customer service chatbot, an AI note-taker, and something ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA )— In just about a week, registered participants will have the opportunity to win big when the 2026 Florida Python Challenge kicks off. Registration to compete and have the ...