Browsing: Startups

Ronnen Harary, the co-founder of the Canadian toy company Spin Master, led a pitch competition and discussion at Penn last week. 

FARGO, N.D., Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sharp Biomedical, a medical device company pioneering accessible, safe, and manual procedures for outpatient pain clinics, announced today the successful closing of its pre-seed funding round. The round was led by gener8tor 1889, a North Dakota venture capital fund, with participation from several physician angel investors.

Flexcompute raised a strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, to accelerate development of its Physics World Model. Other investors also participated in the financing.

Australian startups closed out 2025 with their strongest run of fundraising since the 2021 boom, and the numbers landed in a tight cluster rather than a single tidy figure. Depending on which tracker you read, local founders pulled in somewhere between $5.1 billion and $5.48 billion across 390 announced deals, a jump that several reports…

The EU Council formally approved a new defense innovation program designed to accelerate emerging technologies from prototype to operational use, the European Council reported on October 12.

Golbriak Space, an Estonian space laser communications company, has raised 4 million euro ($4.5 million) in seed funding. This was co-led by Join Capital and PhontonVentureswith participation from Takeoff Accelerator. The company announced the new funding, Oct. 8

The owner of several local chicken restaurants is branching out into breakfast and lunch with his latest venture.

Winners of the LaunchPad’s 2026 Freelance, Small Business and Creatives Pitch competition.

Silicon Valley’s AI partner ecosystem is changing as enterprises push artificial intelligence projects out of pilots and into production. In the region where much of the AI stack is invented, infrastructure providers are learning that selling to builders takes a different playbook.

The eFishery scandal continues to affect Indonesian startup fundraising, according to a report describing heightened investor caution and tougher checks. Astro’s founders said they experienced those effects while seeking new capital.