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Merantix Capital has closed a €103m fund to invest in early-stage, AI-native teams across Europe, the Berlin firm announced on 4 June. The fund is more than three times the size of its first vehicle, which co-founders Rasmus Rothe and Adrian Locher raised at roughly €30m, and it widens the firm’s re
The firm announced that it closed Version One Fund V, a $78 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed investments, along with Opportunities Fund III, a $30 million fund designed to make follow-on investments in its most promising portfolio companies. Read More
IPO-bound used car marketplace Cars24 has committed $20 Mn (₹189.8 Cr) to its recently launched initiative, AI Labs, a dedicated…
A new report out today from Cisco Systems Inc. argues that none of the closed flagship large language models it tested can be considered safe once an attacker is allowed to push past a single prompt, as adversarial success rates climb sharply across every model in the cohort. The Cisco AI Threat Res
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
The Bengaluru-based firm said the new vehicle will invest between $500,000 and $3 million in IP-led firms across these sectors. The launch marks a scale-up for the investor, formerly known as Veda VC, which deployed around $55 million across its first two funds.
AcceleratorX, a new breed of startup accelerator purpose-built for AI founders opens Cohort 1 applications – offering startups unprecedented access to a pan-European network of 2,000+ marketing and communications professionals across 30 countries as real pilot clients from day one. Most AI startups
Sarvam AI cofounder Vivek Raghavan highlighted "data in motion"—user interaction data with AI systems—as the most valuable asset for AI companies. This real-world usage data, generated during product development and operation, offers a significant competitive edge.
AI-native startups face lower gross margins than traditional SaaS due to rising inference and review costs, according to Harshit Kumar of Kalaari Capital. These companies must build defensibility and prove unit economics as they scale, focusing on delivering measurable outcomes and ROI for customers
The AI narrative in India is currently dominated by scale, with Google breaking ground on its $15 Bn AI Hub…
US venture capital fund Silicon Road Ventures has partnered with former Bank of America India MD Ajay Mahajan to launch a Rs 150-crore alternative investment fund. This fund will invest in early-stage startups developing Agentic AI solutions for B2B commerce technology, focusing on areas like supply
State-run oil and gas company Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is planning to launch a new ₹200 Cr fund…
Startups in the AI world gathered at the AI Agent Conference this week in New York are scrambling to carve The post AI startups are scrambling to survive in big tech’s shadow appeared first on The New Stack.
Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to lead a funding round into the combined company by making a $600 million “structured financing commitme
Bengaluru-based Sarvam and other AI startups are reportedly in advanced talks with the defence ministry to launch a ₹300 Cr…
LPL Financial, a US-based wealth management firm, has opened a global capability centre in Hyderabad. In other news, QAI Ventures, the Switzerland-headquartered VC firm is actively looking at having a presence in India.
India’s AI ecosystem faced its own set of challenges last month. While OpenAI dominated headlines with its staggering $122 Bn…
The IndiaAI Mission has announced the names of 10 homegrown AI startups selected for the second cohort of ‘IndiaAI Startups…
QAI Ventures, a specialist VC firm focused on backing startups in the quantum AI space, is looking to deepen its presence in the Indian market through partnerships with key stakeholders across the ecosystem.
As of March 31, foundational AI startups had raised $178 billion across 24 deals, compared with $88.9 billion across 66 deals in all of 2025 in a 100% increase. That’s also significantly higher — 466.9% higher to be exact — than the $31.4 billion raised across 52 deals in 2024.
