Snabbit, an Indian on-demand home services startup, has closed a $56 million funding round, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier report. Co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investments’ Unicorn Growth Fund, and Bertelsmann India Investments, the company’s Series D round values the Bengaluru-based startup at around $350 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. […]

The pet food aisle has never been more crowded, which is exactly why Hillary Coles says she was skeptical when Atomic Labs came calling. “I had the same reaction you did,” Coles told me on a call Monday afternoon, a day before her fresh firm, Golden Child, opened for business. “Surely that can’t be what […]

AI meeting notetaker apps have realized that transcribing meetings and providing summaries alone is not enough to justify their business models and valuations. They now want to act as a full workspace where users bring in data from different sources, search across all of it, and construct decisions about their business. Following notetakers like Read […]

American energy innovation business Itron has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack in mid-April and that hackers had gained access to some of its systems. In a legally required filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission late on Friday, Itron stated it was “notified” that it had an intruder in its systems. The […]

There have been plenty of rumors about OpenAI’s hardware plans, which involve launching a pair of earbuds. A recent note from industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that the AI organization might be working on a phone in collaboration with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare. Kuo,In the past, who has reported on several Apple hardware plans, remarked […]

China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), remarked on Monday it has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup founded by Chinese engineers that relocated to Singapore before Mark Zuckerberg scooped it up late last year. The move marks one of China’s most significant interventions in a […]