Tech Market & VC news — Thursday 29 October 2026

StartupDaily (AU) 23:55 UTC

Copy Geek grabs $2M to make copy-trading less fake, syncing every fill across major crypto exchanges.

TechCrunch 23:44 UTC

The success of blockbuster hits like "Project Hail Mary" and "Verity" is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.

TechCrunch 23:42 UTC

Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.

StartupDaily (AU) 23:31 UTC

A PHP flaw puts 70% of the web in the blast zone; patch now, audit your stack, and keep sensitive data off shaky sites.

TechCabal (Africa) 22:51 UTC

At Moonshot by TechCabal 2026, the Nigeria AI Scaling Hub (NAISH) showcased five organisations developing artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare, agriculture, and local languages, underscoring how shared digital infrastructure…

CB Insights 22:30 UTC

We have 39 companies for you this Halloween, and a few are going to need some explaining. There’s lab-grown blood, body preservation, and computers made with living neurons. We also included candy companies, because we respect the holiday…

TechCrunch 22:27 UTC

Some estimates say hackers stole billions in crypto from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, during a cyberattack on Thursday.

TechCrunch 21:51 UTC

Putin said that he and Musk are in "close contact" about Rassvet, Russia's Starlink-like satellite connectivity project.

TechCrunch 21:20 UTC

The biggest ouch of the report was its negative free cash flow of $2.4 billion.

TechCrunch 21:01 UTC

As part of the settlement, GM must get drivers’ express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data.

TechCrunch 20:43 UTC

The site has such a passionate user base that, within two hours of the announcement, its status page's posts had garnered millions of views (and much panicked commentary) across social media.

TechCrunch 20:08 UTC

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.

TechCrunch 20:05 UTC

Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.

TechCrunch 20:02 UTC

Rivian is seeing strong enough sales of the new EV that it improved its guidance to Wall Street for the second time this year.

TechCrunch 19:56 UTC

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.

Wired Business 19:51 UTC

The company says an unnamed third-party provider was compromised. Trading has resumed, and Polymarket says affected traders will be made whole.

TechCabal (Africa) 19:47 UTC

Cirquu has opened its AI-powered business management platform to public sign-ups, offering African companies tools for sales, accounting and staff management with subscriptions starting at ₦9,000 ($6.70) monthly. Michael Njoku, founder and…

TechCabal (Africa) 19:35 UTC

Raenest, a Nigerian cross-border payments fintech, wants users to do more than receive money from abroad, its co-founder and chief executive officer, Richard Oyome, said at Moonshot 2026 in Lagos on Thursday. Oyome traced the company’s…

TechCabal (Africa) 19:25 UTC

Interswitch, a Nigerian payments technology company, says consumer education is the biggest hurdle to making tap-to-pay a mainstream payment method in Nigeria, even as banks and merchants prepare to support it. Speaking at Moonshot 2026 in…

TechCrunch 19:17 UTC

Airbnb’s nonprofit held its inaugural gala on Wednesday in Los Angeles, and the internet had one reaction — the *what* gala?

TechCrunch 19:14 UTC

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll.

TechCrunch 17:54 UTC

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

TechCrunch 17:00 UTC

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.

TechCabal (Africa) 16:54 UTC

Africa’s creative industries have no shortage of talent or stories to tell. What they lack is the commercial infrastructure to distribute their work, reach audiences and get paid for it. That was the central argument at a Creative Economy…

TechCrunch 16:42 UTC

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.

TechCabal (Africa) 16:25 UTC

Safaricom dismissed 118 employees for fraud in the year to March, even as fraud incidents fell 82%, pointing to a declining insider threat amid an intensified crackdown at Kenya’s largest telecoms operator. The figure, disclosed in the…

TechCrunch 16:21 UTC

Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the United States.

TechCrunch 16:19 UTC

SuperMe is a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts. When you ask a question, the platform determines which experts are best suited to answer and creates a group chat with their AI profiles.

Fast Company Tech 16:00 UTC

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI . I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this…

YourStory (India) 15:49 UTC

For many young people, finding a job begins long before they enter a classroom. Understanding their strengths, identifying career options and building the confidence to pursue them can be just as important as acquiring skills. Lighthouse…

EU-Startups 15:10 UTC

Swedish AI startup Pixel Systems has raised €2.7 million ($3.1 million) in a Seed round to accelerate their commercial initiatives and continue building the technology that helps identify AI-generated and manipulated images, documents, and…

TechCrunch 15:00 UTC

Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain and Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents.

Wired Business 15:00 UTC

A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.

EU-Startups 14:50 UTC

A friend of mine runs a company that builds software for other companies. He has the same problem in most sales meetings. He shows what the system can do, the prospect leans forward and asks how it works, and my friend, who is not daft…

TechCabal (Africa) 14:36 UTC

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has developed a mobile application that allows authorised industry stakeholders to scan phones’ International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers and upload device information to its…

TechCrunch 14:35 UTC

On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.

TechCabal (Africa) 14:17 UTC

Oji Udezue has built products that made millions in Silicon Valley, serving as chief product officer at Typeform and Calendly, product lead at Twitter, and head of product at Atlassian. On Moonshot’s Emerging Tech stage, he returned to the…

TechCabal (Africa) 14:10 UTC

Africa’s artificial intelligence developers should measure success by improvements in healthcare, education and incomes rather than the number of products they launch, the Gates Foundation’s Nigeria director told Moonshot by TechCabal in…

YourStory (India) 14:07 UTC

India’s IG Defence and Oman-based MSA Global have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the co-development and local manufacture of drone and counter-drone systems for Oman and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The…

Wired Business 14:00 UTC

The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.

Fast Company Tech 14:00 UTC

Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining popularity far beyond tech circles, with Meta , OpenAI , Anthropic and other companies going head-to-head in the surging market for consumer-friendly AI agents . While the leading AI labs have…

TechCrunch 13:43 UTC

The social networking site is facing criticism for blocking access to the site, which identifies thousands of ICE agents and other employees working for Homeland Security.

TechCrunch 13:40 UTC

The acquisition would bring two major players in on-demand delivery under one roof, combining DoorDash’s dominance in restaurant takeout with Instacart’s reach in grocery delivery.

TechCabal (Africa) 13:16 UTC

Bluebulb has launched a treasury management platform to help African businesses oversee cash, currencies, and international payments from a single dashboard, as the fintech seeks to expand beyond moving money. The company introduced Orbita…

YourStory (India) 13:06 UTC

Imagine handing AI 80,000 files and getting back a presentation with charts, images and a clear narrative. Or asking it to build a detailed 3D scene using code, without dedicated rendering software. These are examples of AI moving beyond…

TechCrunch 13:00 UTC

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions.

TechCrunch 13:00 UTC

With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.

TechCrunch 13:00 UTC

Six days from now, on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit brings experienced founders, investors, and operators to Boston to share the decisions, mistakes, pivots, and lessons that shaped their companies. Register before it starts for…

Fast Company Tech 13:00 UTC

JibJab , the e-card and video company perhaps still best known for a viral video from the Bush-Kerry election in 2004, has been acquired by Mode , a company with a very 2026 business model: rewarding app users for sharing their data…

YourStory (India) 12:36 UTC

India’s new-age manufacturing sector could benefit significantly from a $3 trillion global AI infrastructure investment cycle, according to a report by Avendus Capital. The investment banking firm has identified defence and aerospace…

EU-Startups 12:35 UTC

Bleu Robotics , a Paris-based startup building AI models for industrial humanoid robots, has raised a €5 million pre-Seed round, to reach its goal of reducing the full humanoid robot deployment process to one hour or shorter. The round was…

YourStory (India) 12:30 UTC

Emotional intelligence is not about staying calm all the time or knowing exactly what to say in every situation. It is about understanding your emotions, recognising how others feel, and choosing how to respond rather than reacting…

TechCabal (Africa) 12:23 UTC

Grey is offering businesses direct payments to Chinese bank accounts to reduce currency conversions and intermediaries involved in paying overseas suppliers, co-founder and chief operating officer Femi Aghedo told Moonshot by TechCabal in…

YourStory (India) 12:18 UTC

Ace Blend, a science-led nutrition company, has raised $9.91 million in a Series A2 funding round led by 3one4 Capital, a venture capital firm whose portfolio includes Licious, Darwinbox and Kapiva. Existing investor Fireside Ventures, an…

YourStory (India) 12:14 UTC

Fintech company Pine Labs reported a 6.5x rise in net profit to Rs 38.6 crore in the second quarter of FY27, while revenue grew 24% year-on-year to Rs 806 crore. The fintech company's net profit stood at Rs 6 crore in the same quarter last…

CB Insights 11:59 UTC

Greg Van Aken , Chief Executive Officer of Pipelign , 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?…

Fast Company Tech 11:58 UTC

DoorDash has agreed to acquire grocery rival Instacart for $17 billion, a deal that will bolster the delivery company’s move into grocery and boost business at the largest third-party delivery platform in America. Instacart, which launched…

YourStory (India) 11:48 UTC

Entrepreneurship is rarely a smooth journey. Building a business requires patience, resilience, and the willingness to keep moving forward when things do not go as planned. From facing uncertainty to learning from setbacks, entrepreneurs…

EU-Startups 11:45 UTC

Strollme , a German provider of children’s mobility on subscription, has secured €22 million in equity and debt financing to support their growth in its existing markets and lay the foundation for future expansion into other European…

CB Insights 11:44 UTC

Rahul Garg , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vectorial AI , 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…

CB Insights 11:29 UTC

Victor Andrés Espinosa , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Loto Punto , 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…

YourStory (India) 11:21 UTC

One Planet Partners, an India-focused private equity firm, has partnered with Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank to launch its Rs 3,000-crore maiden fund. According to a statement, the Japanese financial institution has made an equity…

CB Insights 11:21 UTC

Lukas Loun , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Maia Labs ., 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…

YourStory (India) 11:13 UTC

Artificial intelligence poses numerous challenges for employees but can improve governance in governments, YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors. Featured stories Vembu’s AI warning: one worker…

CB Insights 11:10 UTC

Justin Cooperman , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tented , 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…

CB Insights 11:01 UTC

Renier Veiga , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ŷRobot , 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…

Crunchbase News 11:00 UTC

More money, fewer rounds. That, in short, is the state of U.S. Series B startup funding in 2026, as venture capital investment continues to concentrate heavily around a handful of AI hotshots. Crunchbase data shows that so far this year…

Crunchbase News 11:00 UTC

Global startups have closed at least 114 Series A rounds of $100 million or more so far this year, Crunchbase reported in late September, and more than 70% of them went to AI companies. For most seed founders, that headline is a warning…

CB Insights 10:57 UTC

Wade Malcolm, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Open Energy Solutions , 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…

YourStory (India) 10:56 UTC

SaaS major Freshworks has acquired Israel-based AI startup Robusta Dev, an incident intelligence engine that uses AI to investigate technology disruptions, identify root causes, and recommend remediation actions. In a company blogpost…

YourStory (India) 10:43 UTC

San Francisco-headquartered Inkle, an AI-driven accounting and bookkeeping firm for US companies that develops its technology in Bengaluru, has purchased the bookkeeping arm of small-business finance platform Finally. The price has not…

CB Insights 10:41 UTC

Jaime Pesquera , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jupiter Base , 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…

CB Insights 10:34 UTC

David Dehaeck, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JUSTE , 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…

EU-Startups 10:30 UTC

Key points: Why impact should be treated as a design problem built into a business model from day one, rather than a values commitment bolted on later The difference between impact by intention and impact by design – and how founders and…

CB Insights 10:24 UTC

Mike Harmon , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hardtech CMO , 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…

YourStory (India) 10:15 UTC

Bengaluru-based AI-powered cybersecurity and threat intelligence company CloudSEK has launched CloudSEK Launchpad, a 12-week incubation programme for early-stage cybersecurity startups. The first cohort will have 10 companies, each…

CB Insights 10:05 UTC

Noel Solomon, Co-founder of Note2Tabs , 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? Start your…

EU-Startups 10:00 UTC

Entourage , the London-based early-stage VC firm founded by Showpad co-founder and former CEO Pieterjan Bouten, today announced the close of its €100 million second fund, just over two years after launching its first fund in 2024…

Stratechery 10:00 UTC

Listen to this post: Good morning, Today’s Stratechery Interview is with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar . Sankar has worked at Palantir for 20 years, and has taken on an increasingly visible role as public intellectual, including authoring the…

CB Insights 09:54 UTC

Muzamil Syed , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Aynstyn Technologies , 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…

Fast Company Tech 09:53 UTC

“Like riding a broomstick in a hurricane.” This is reportedly how one SpaceX engineer described the intense atmospheric reentry of the first Falcon 9 rocket to go to space and then successfully land back here. That moment, on December 21…

CB Insights 09:47 UTC

Robert Farrell , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fairway Health & Wellness , 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?…

TechCabal (Africa) 09:39 UTC

Payment providers must help businesses manage cash flow, understand customers and reduce fraud as accepting digital payments becomes only the first step in adopting technology, fintech executives told Moonshot by TechCabal 2026. Speaking…

CB Insights 09:25 UTC

Jana Reuther , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LeanOnMe , 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…

CB Insights 09:16 UTC

Tal Levanon, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NeuBuild AI , 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…

TechCabal (Africa) 09:14 UTC

Paystack will look beyond payment acceptance to address more of businesses’ financial needs as it enters its second decade, co-founder and chief executive Shola Akinlade said at Moonshot 2026 in Lagos. Akinlade described how the Nigerian…

CB Insights 09:08 UTC

Justin Hunter , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Confido , 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…

CB Insights 09:03 UTC

Yanjie Zhao , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GreenOnion , 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…

TechCabal (Africa) 09:03 UTC

Nigeria’s securities regulator has urged local founders to look closer to home for capital, arguing that crowdfunding and debt markets can offer a route to an eventual stock market listing. Emomotimi Agama, director-general of the…

CB Insights 08:57 UTC

Elad Goldenberg , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GeckoCheck , 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…

YourStory (India) 08:43 UTC

AI has made building almost effortless. In 2019, Emilis Strimaitis spent nearly a year, and the efforts of a developer agency, on a shopping app that failed. Today, he says, an AI subscription and a weekend would produce the same app, and…

YourStory (India) 08:41 UTC

India’s technology conversation is increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence, data centres and digital infrastructure, however a more fundamental challenge lies in ensuring that the country has sufficient reliable power and water…

Fast Company Tech 08:30 UTC

Data centers require enormous investments : land, buildings, computer equipment, and power infrastructure. Yet, once they’re up and running, they tend to employ no more than a few dozen people in occupations such as IT technicians…

CB Insights 08:01 UTC

Abrar Ul Haq Bajwa , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kluck AI , 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…

EU-Startups 08:01 UTC

VUSE XR , a Freiburg-based startup developing enterprise software for mixed reality training, today announced the closing of a €1.2 million pre-Seed financing round. The round was led by IACD, a Düsseldorf-based business angel network…

CB Insights 07:57 UTC

Simon Bergeron , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Verified Node , 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…

CB Insights 07:50 UTC

Ron Wesley Nussbaum , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ask A Shop Owner , 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…

CB Insights 07:40 UTC

Tarang Agarwal , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GetIntel , 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…

CB Insights 07:32 UTC

Ruchi Abhijat Soparkar , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kachi AI , 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…

EU-Startups 07:29 UTC

Auriga Partners , a Paris-based asset management firm specialising in venture capital and innovation investment, has announced an €80 million interim close for Auriga Cyber Ventures II, its second fund dedicated exclusively to…

CB Insights 07:24 UTC

Majd Zahran , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NibraSec , 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…

CB Insights 06:51 UTC

Corey Joinville , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AnchorPoint CIO , 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…

CB Insights 06:47 UTC

Lubaib Vasu , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Skin Intelligence , 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…

TechCabal (Africa) 06:28 UTC

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EU-Startups 06:14 UTC

Braid , a Dutch company that enables enterprises to launch their own branded mobile connectivity, has raised €34.13 million ($38 million) in a Series A funding round. The company also announced its rebrand from Next Communications. The…

StartupDaily (AU) 04:53 UTC

Vinyl burns cash, leans on Ken Gaunt’s extra $2m loan, and gets a share-price sugar hit.

StartupDaily (AU) 02:19 UTC

Forget page-one Google: AI search rewards startups with links from many trusted sites.

YourStory (India) 02:00 UTC

Dear Reader, Jio Platforms made a strong debut on the National Stock Exchange, closing at Rs 1,419, which is a sharp 26.81% premium over its issue price of Rs 1,119. The listing has catapulted the company’s market capitalisation to Rs…