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Nearly Half of French Under-30s Now See Entrepreneurship as an Ideal Career
Bpifrance's 2025 entrepreneurial index reveals a sharp generational split: young people are more confident, more likely ...
Forbes India Brand Connect Profiles Ten Founders in Paid Entrepreneur Feature
A paid Forbes India Brand Connect feature highlights ten founders across tech, wellness, hospitality and audio. The perf...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Dates, Discount Code and AI Programming Details
The San Francisco startup conference runs October 13–15 with six stages, an AI-focused agenda and a 15% Founder Pass dis...
How a Mother's School-Run Problem Became Zum, a $1.7 Billion School Transport Startup
Ritu Narayan left eBay to build Zum, a tech-driven school bus platform now valued at $1.7 billion with $333 million in 2...
How a Former eBay Executive Built a $1.7 Billion School Transport Company
Zum says its route optimization cut one district's bus fleet from 236 to 193 and saved $3.5 million a year, fueling a pu...
A $100,000 Sock Order Was the Demand Test Behind Doublesoul
How Allison Strumeyer used a minimum inventory order, a day job and early celebrity backing to validate her sock startup...
Africa’s Business Heroes Names Top 20 Entrepreneurs for 2026 Nairobi Semi-Final
Twenty founders from 12 countries will pitch in Nairobi on 21–22 August for 10 semi-final places, after a process that b...
From Teenage Carpenter to AI Founder: The Trunk Tools Story
Sarah Buchner turned a construction career that began as a teenage carpenter into Trunk Tools, an AI startup helping con...
A 20-Year-Old Built a 'Doctolib for Trades' in Five Weeks Using OpenAI Codex
Suna Marie Tamboga built Passt, a platform that matches German households with the right tradesperson, in about five wee...
The Cofounder Conversations AI Startup Teams Say Prevent Costly Breakups
Three AI startup teams on equity, domain ownership, commitment and conflict: the early agreements that keep small, fast-...
Inside Israel's Scale-Up Machine: 9,000 Startups and Deep Nasdaq Links
Government R&D policy, school-level tech exposure and a small home market have made Israel one of the world's densest st...
Fitness Startup Funding Rebounds, but AI and Health Data Are the New Pitch
Fitness and wellness startups raised more than $3.6 billion in H1 2026, but the recovery is concentrated in AI-driven we...
Five Young African Entrepreneurs Building Businesses That Tackle Local Challenges
From solar energy in Nigeria to biodegradable period pads and last-mile delivery in Zambia, these founders under 30 are ...
How Israel Transformed from Emerging Market to a Global Scale-Up Nation
With over 9,000 startups, record funding, and the highest engineer density on earth, Israel's innovation ecosystem has f...
From Goldman Sachs to Unicorn: Twins Build $1.15B AI Platform for Service Pros
Danielle and Leah Cohen-Shohet raised $44 million in Series D funding for Genius AI, a platform automating bookings and ...
Indian Founders Launch Ventures Across Education, Tech, Wellness, and Hospitality
From AI wellness companions to integrated business operating systems and portion-controlled honey, a wave of Indian entr...
AI Dominates July Venture Capital Deals as Khosla, Y Combinator Lead Rankings
Khosla Ventures led the most new rounds while Y Combinator participated in the highest volume; Coatue’s $10 billion Blue...
Data Shows 94% of YC’s Repeat Founders Return Only Once; AI Enables Leaner Second Acts
Crunchbase News analysis of YC data shows repeat founders peak at 65 in 2025, most return exactly twice after an average...
Karos Pitches Corporate Carpooling Model on BFM Business's French Tech Segment
French startup Karos outlined its business-to-business platform for daily home-to-work carpooling during an appearance o...
AI Strategy Can Destroy Startup Exit Value, M&A Adviser Warns
Strategic adviser Itay Sagie argues that rushed AI adoption can read as vendor dependency and integration risk to acquir...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Adds 'Real World AI' Stage for Physical-World AI
The fall conference expands its AI program with a new stage on autonomous hardware, edge AI and de-extinction, featuring...
Israel's 50-Year Innovation Push: How a Small Nation Became a Global Tech Hub
Israel built one of the world's densest innovation ecosystems in five decades — but its scale-up story runs on foreign c...
Slovak Startup Flies a Plane From a Bratislava Desk Using Starlink
Schochman Aviation says it remotely took control of a light aircraft over a Starlink link, targeting flight training and...
Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever
The 50-year-old Silicon Valley firm is putting $3 billion behind a bet on AI's next phase, with a barbell strategy that ...
Pippa Pays Artists for AI Training — but Its Models Still Rest on Scraped Data
The text-to-video startup pays artists royalties for AI training, but its underlying models still use scraped data — and...
The Booming Business of Cutting Enterprise AI Costs
Consultants, measurement platforms and infrastructure startups are racing to help enterprises stop overpaying for AI. Me...
Who Owns the Traveler? Skift’s Power Map Points to the Next Battleground
Skift’s 14th-anniversary analysis maps who controls discovery, booking and the traveler’s wallet — and warns the portabl...
Why Cutting Staff in a Crisis Can Cost More Than Keeping Them
An investor argues that owners should judge layoffs by company value, not quarterly profit — and explains when cutting s...
AI’s First Winners Seek Their Next Big Moves with Acquisitions and Unlikely Bets
From Midjourney buying a astrology app to Cognition adding personality to its coding agent, AI startups flush with cash ...
From Tesla to AI Factories: Adi Prasad’s Lessons from Musk and Kalanick
The MIT and Harvard MBA grad recounts working under Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick before founding Matter, an AI-driven m...