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Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India Aug 05, 2025

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Indian startup Jeh Aerospace has secured $11 million in a new funding round to help ease global supply chain bottlenecks.

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Anthropic cut off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models, also PlayerZero raised $15M and Figma’s stock soared in its IPO Aug 05, 2025

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Anthropic has revoked OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models, according to a report in Wired. Sources told Wired that OpenAI was connecting Claude to internal tools that allowed the company to compare Claude’s performance to its own models in categories like coding, writing, and safety. Also, as Silicon Valley races toward a future where AI agents do most of the software programming, a new problem is created: finding the AI-generated bugs before they are put into production. Even OpenAI is dealing with such issues, a former employee has described; Figma began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after a long delay. It soared so quickly that trading was halted for a short time due to market volatility.

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Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments Aug 04, 2025

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Latvian startup Handwave aims to compete with Amazon palm payments by offering an independent alternative.

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Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M Aug 04, 2025

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SixSense offers an AI-powered platform that helps chip makers prevent defects. It landed backing led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA).

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AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US Aug 01, 2025

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Israel-based eVTOL startup AIR has raised $23 million to scale production of both its piloted and uncrewed cargo aircraft, and enter the U.S.

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How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup Aug 01, 2025

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A marketing automation startup called Conversation has a founding story that sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.”

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Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula Jul 31, 2025

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Nara Organics is a new organic, whole milk baby formula brand that's free from palm oil, soy, corn syrup, maltodextrin, and GMOs.

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention Jul 31, 2025

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Delian Alliance Industries recently raised $14 million in funding to continue building its defense products, which include surveillance towers, and concealed sea drones.

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Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead Jul 30, 2025

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Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent.

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This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired Jul 29, 2025

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In red-hot acquisition market, this CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers.

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