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Tech Market & VC news — Friday 09 October 2026

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  1. Long live the mechanical keyboard
    USTechCrunch

    Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.

  2. Agentic AI just got very real
    USFast Company Tech

    Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company ’s Plugged In . In recent years, being gobsmacked by AI’s ever-expanding capabilities has become my new normal. More importantly, I’ve found the technology increasingly essential to my own…

  3. The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
    USTechCrunch

    What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.

  4. OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers after dispute over AI risks
    USFast Company Tech

    OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,” defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them. The ChatGPT…

  5. An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
    USTechCrunch

    Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

  6. Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
    USTechCrunch

    Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

  7. The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Energy Top A Busy Lineup Of Large Rounds
    USCrunchbase News

    Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out T he Crunchbase Megadeals Board . This is a weekly feature that runs down the…

  8. Trump’s AI rebrand raises an awkward question for OpenAI
    USFast Company Tech

    Will OpenAI change its name to “OpenSI”? Probably not, but it’s a question worth asking given the increasingly chummy relationship between the AI company and President Donald Trump. On September 29, the president signed an executive order…

  9. Five months after running out of capital, Chimoney gets a new owner
    NGTechCabal (Africa)

    CapitalSage Vantage Limited, a subsidiary of CapitalSage Holdings, has completed its acquisition of Chimoney, the Nigerian-founded payments startup that announced its shutdown in May after running out of capital to sustain operations, Uchi…

  10. 2026.41: It’s Not You, It’s Me
    USStratechery

    (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone …

  11. LumenUs helps automate tedious paperwork in times of grief
    USTechCrunch

    "The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about," said founder Sara Tashakorinia.

  12. Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
    USTechCrunch

    Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition…

  13. Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
    USTechCrunch

    For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

  14. We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
    USTechCrunch

    "When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."

  15. Tesla renames ‘Full Self-Driving’ to ‘Tesla Assisted Driving’ in Europe
    USTechCrunch

    The name change is enough for Germany's transport minister to start advocating for Europe-wide adoption of the driver assistance software.

  16. CEO Interview: Wingback Security
    USCB Insights

    Abhinav Singh , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Wingback Security , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see…

  17. Remember Orkut? Its founder wants to bring it back
    USTechCrunch

    Orkut's founder is now taking aim at algorithms and AI-generated content.

  18. Journalists now have an AI reputation and PR is keeping track
    USFast Company Tech

    If someone asks you, “What’s your AI score?” you’d probably look at them funny, assume they want to sell you some kind of AI gadget or service, and move on. For journalists , though, the term is taking on a more specific meaning. Now that…

  19. A16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI
    USTechCrunch

    Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.

  20. Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Oct. 05 – Oct. 09)
    EUEU-Startups

    This article is visible for CLUB members only. If you are already a member but don’t see the content of this article, please login here . If you’re not a CLUB member yet, but you’d like to read members-only content like this one, have…

  21. CEO Interview: Birches Health
    USCB Insights

    Elliott Rapaport , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Birches Health , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see…

  22. CEO Interview: Savio
    USCB Insights

    Hugo Martinez , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Savio , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more…

  23. Automattic loses its interim CFO just weeks after boardroom shakeup
    USTechCrunch

    Automattic's interim chief financial officer Jeremy Klaperman has left the company less than a month after taking the role, TechCrunch has learned. Sources say his departure followed a demotion back to his previous position, marking…

  24. CEO Interview: Clair
    USCB Insights

    Nico Simko , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Clair , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research?…

  25. I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget
    USWired Business

    Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.

  26. Executive Interview: Fintastic
    USCB Insights

    Brian McCormac, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Fintastic , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more…

  27. FBI seizes Chinese hacking tools used for cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure
    USFast Company Tech

    The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and is believed responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including…

  28. CEO Interview: Bon Credit
    USCB Insights

    Samder Singh Khangarot , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bon Credit , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to…

  29. Beyond TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The Side Events, Parties ＆ Networking You Can’t Miss
    USTechCrunch

    TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is just the beginning. From exclusive networking events and startup showcases to happy hours, dinners, and after-hours meetups, discover what’s happening across San Francisco during Disrupt Week, October 10–16. Find…

  30. CEO Interview: DRUO
    USCB Insights

    Alejandro Pinzon Acevedo , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DRUO , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see…

  31. TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang on landing your first 1,000 customers
    USTechCrunch

    Leaders from Gamma, Engine, and Google Ventures join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk how to get your first customers. Register now to save up to $100. Grab a second pass at 50% off.

  32. Monte Carlo Capital raises €13 million for Fund II to invest in early-stage DeepTech, AI and SpaceTech
    EUEU-Startups

    Monte Carlo Capital (MCC), the Monaco-based early-stage venture firm investing at Seed in DeepTech and tech-enabled innovators, today announced a €13 million ($15 million) first close of Fund II, with a target of €26 million ($30 million)…

  33. [Weekly funding roundup Oct 3-9] Steep decline in VC inflow
    INYourStory (India)

    Venture capital funding into Indian startups recorded a sharp decline and this was largely due to the absence of large deals during this week. The total funding this week came in at $168 million across 28 deals. In comparison, the previous…

  34. TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise
    USTechCrunch

    Four days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders gather in San Francisco's Moscone West on October 13-15. Save up to $100 on your price. Plus, save 50% on a second pass of the same type.

  35. Surveillance company Flock cuts staff as privacy backlash grows
    USTechCrunch

    Flock would not say if CEO Garrett Langley would take a pay cut following the reduction in workforce.

  36. Starfunding: 10 of Europe’s biggest celebrity-backed startup deals
    EUEU-Startups

    Celebrity investment in startups is nothing new, but the range of businesses attracting famous backers is expanding. Beyond traditional endorsements and brand partnerships, celebrities are putting capital into companies working on…

  37. Few H-1B workers transitioning to green cards via PERM: Nasscom
    INYourStory (India)

    Indian IT industry body Nasscom highlighted that few employees transition from H-1B visas to permanent residency through the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) process. This response comes in the wake of the US government's announcement…

  38. Orkut creator seeks to revive the iconic social network platform
    INYourStory (India)

    Orkut Büyükkökten, the creator of orkut.com, is seeking to revive the platform, which introduced many people to social networking. “The internet should help us find our people. Friendship. Community. A place to belong,” Büyükkökten wrote…

  39. “You already had your chance”: The silent shame of online dating after divorce in Africa 
    NGTechCabal (Africa)

    For hundreds of African divorcees, widows, and single parents, returning to the dating pool means facing a wall of silent shame and public judgement. Late one night, corporate finance analyst Tega Ogaga watched an online comment section…

  40. Ghent-based SpectaCell launches with €6 million to advance its cell analysis platform for immunotherapy development
    EUEU-Startups

    SpectaCell , a new Ghent-based startup specialising in next-generation cell therapy analytics, has announced its official launch with €6 million in Seed funding. The company has spun out of imec, VIB and Ghent University. The round was led…

  41. Xona’s commercial GPS alternative is about to go live
    USTechCrunch

    Xona's precision timing and navigation service will enter beta testing after SpaceX launches six satellites designed by the company.

  42. NABARD-backed NABVENTURES raises Rs 450 Cr for second fund
    INYourStory (India)

    NABVENTURES, the venture capital arm of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), has achieved the first close of its second fund, securing Rs 450 crore in initial commitments. The fund has a target corpus of Rs…

  43. Startup news and updates: daily roundup (October 9, 2026)
    INYourStory (India)

    YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Thursday, October 8 , 2026. Funding news NeoGrowth raises Rs 85 crore led by FMO MSME-focused digital lender NeoGrowth has…

  44. What a banker discovered when he started listening to farmers
    NGTechCabal (Africa)

    Don’t get Watson Matsa started on farmers and banks, as we did. By the swimming pool at Somerset Westview Hotel in Nairobi, he talks about both with the conviction of a man who has spent enough time inside a bank to know why banks don’t…

  45. Active Investors Kept Up The Deal Pace In Q3, Even As Funding Fell
    USCrunchbase News

    Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders. Per Crunchbase data, a majority of the…

  46. Why Customer Workflows Are Becoming The Moat In The AI Era
    USCrunchbase News

    Imagine an insurance company testing two AI assistants. Both understand customer questions, respond naturally and perform well in demonstrations. Six months later, one handles policy renewals inside the insurer’s systems, follows approval…

  47. America’s next family car might look a lot like a golf cart
    USFast Company Tech

    For decades, automakers have been designing cars to look like they have faces. Headlights resemble eyes, grilles look like mouths, and the shape of a hood can give a vehicle something resembling an expression. That is, of course, no…

  48. London’s Sava raises €32.08 million and partners with Ascensia to bring its glucose microsensor to Europe
    EUEU-Startups

    Sava Technologies , a London-based HealthTech company developing a wearable biosensor platform that detects molecules just beneath the skin, today announced a €32.08 million ($36 million) Series B round to fund manufacturing scale-up and…

  49. The festive sales playbook: How Amazon and Flipkart are winning India’s mega sales
    INYourStory (India)

    If you’ve been tracking the annual showdown between Amazon’s Great Indian Festival and Flipkart’s Big Billion Days, it’s easy to get bogged down in the hype. Every year brings promises of bigger discounts and flashier launch events. But…

  50. Juspay FY26 revenue rises 30% to Rs 664 Cr as international business and AI bets scale
    INYourStory (India)

    Payments technology company Juspay reported a 30% year-on-year increase in revenue for the financial year ended March 31, 2026 (FY26), reaching Rs 664 crore, up from Rs 514 crore in FY25. The top-line growth reflects sustained momentum…

  51. NeoGrowth raises Rs 85 Cr led by FMO
    INYourStory (India)

    MSME-focused digital lender NeoGrowth has raised Rs 85 crore investment led by FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, with participation from LeapFrog Investments. A statement said, the investment will support NeoGrowth's next…

  52. The 20-metre neobank: How Mukuru is solving the gap between receiving cash and spending it
    NGTechCabal (Africa)

    Why does a 20-metre walk in Harare explain the future of African fintech? When Juan Seco left Wall Street private equity for African tech, he realised the biggest gap wasn’t complex financial software—it was what happens after a remittance…

  53. EXCLUSIVE: Ecosia founder clarifies move away from Mistral – It’s about open models, not China
    EUEU-Startups

    Ecosia ’s decision to drop French AI provider Mistral is not a move towards Chinese technology, but rather a shift towards more affordable, energy-efficient open AI models, founder and CEO Christian Kroll clarified in a conversation with…

  54. Kindle page-turn buttons are back
    USFast Company Tech

    Under normal circumstances, I would be overjoyed that Amazon has rediscovered the appeal of dedicated page-turn buttons on its Kindle e-readers. Neither of my current models—a first-generation Scribe and a Colorsoft—have those buttons, and…

  55. Zurich’s Klarent raises €7.13 million to scale its agentic software testing platform and expand into the US
    EUEU-Startups

    Klarent (formerly fore ai) , a Zurich-based autonomous software testing startup, has closed a €7.13 million Seed funding round. The round was led by London-based Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Moonfire Ventures and a number of…

  56. Lagos Life maker Vatar raises $500,000 one week after launch
    NGTechCabal (Africa)

    Vatar Inc., the company behind the viral Nigerian browser game Lagos Life, has closed a $500,000 angel round at a $10 million valuation three days after incorporation, according to a company statement. “We built something people love that…

  57. Chalmers intervenes to delay ATO credit card payments ban until the end of the financial year
    AUStartupDaily (AU)

    Chalmers punts the ATO credit-card tax ban to June 30, buying SMEs cashflow time—not a fix.

  58. Bern-based Besso raises €4.29 million to scale its AI-powered trade regulation intelligence platform
    EUEU-Startups

    Besso , a Bern-based startup that helps companies manage the complexity of international trade regulations, has secured €4.29 million (CHF 4 million) in funding. The funding came from a single large European family office, which opted to…

  59. Why Moove is leaving the Nigerian market it was built in
    NGTechCabal (Africa)

    Six years after Moove put 76 cars on Lagos roads and asked Uber drivers to pay for them out of their earnings, the mobility company is leaving Nigeria , its founding market, and handing many of those drivers their cars. In a statement on…

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    NGTechCabal (Africa)

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  61. Nicola Forrest anchors Antler’s $70 million 3rd fund in $30m push for women founders
    AUStartupDaily (AU)

    Nicola Forrest turbocharges Antler’s $70m fund, giving women founders up to $120k non-dilutive firepower.

  62. The shockingly easy fix for your Gmail low-storage nightmare
    USFast Company Tech

    It’s no exaggeration to say that cloud storage has changed the way we work—and, to some extent, even the way we live. Gone are the days of having your mountains of saved emails exist only on a single local system, without easy instant…

  63. US bars Microsoft, Indian IT firms from green card programme; TCS Q2 net profit rises 15%
    INYourStory (India)

    Dear Reader, The United States government is suspending new applications for permanent residency of foreign workers at companies including Microsoft, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, and HCLTech, citing abuse in the entire process. In a particular…

  64. Why public capital isn’t enough to save India’s deeptech
    INYourStory (India)

    Can government funds derisk deeptech enough to make private capital comfortable in India? Partly. The state is well placed to absorb technology risk. It is far less able to remove the two risks that actually keep fund managers awake: time…

  65. Firmus float fizzles out
    AUStartupDaily (AU)

    Firmus scraps its hyped ASX float as AI data-centre dreams hit cold money reality.