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Add preferred source University professors who have spent decades researching a single field are emerging as “tech gurus” in South Korea’s venture capital market, becoming pivotal figures on the startup front lines. Full-time faculty startups at KAIST have surged to more than 100 per year recently, and the combined market capitalization of faculty-founded companies has…

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The possible sale of UK neobank Monzo has revived fears that Europe is losing another homegrown success story to acquirers outside the region, as non-European investors account for an increasing share of VC-backed acquisitions.

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Houston’s South Asian wedding scene is big enough, intense enough and complicated enough that a local wedding singer turned his own planning headache into a startup.

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Aug. 12, 2026 ― DENTON ― The Texas Woman’s University Center for Women Entrepreneurs (CWE) will award $50,000 in grants to Texas startups through its StartUP Grant program.

The scan, co-founded by Spotify’s David Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, uses advanced technology to screen for issues in the blood, skin, and metabolism. The company was founded in Sweden, has raised nearly $1 billion total, and just landed in New York. It has a global waitlist already topping 300,000 people, the company says.

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