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AI Agents for Small Business: Easol Raises $30M for Teammates
Easol raised $30M and launched AI agents for experience businesses. Here is how small business owners can test agents without big risk.
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Finance Automation Startup Hyphenate Raises $45M Series A
Finance automation is getting funded as Hyphenate raises a $45M Series A. Here is how lean founders can think about automating the books.
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Wealth Management Software Startup Nevis Raises Series B
Wealth management software startup Nevis raised a Series B to fix advisor tool sprawl. Here is the founder lesson on consolidating a messy…
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Lessons From Barbara Corcoran, Suze Orman and Other Women Who Beat the Odds
Barbara Corcoran, Andrea Miele, Suze Orman, Sara Blakely and Whitney Wolfe Herd share lessons on confidence, rejection and succeeding in…
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Emerging debt outruns Treasuries as rich-world fiscal fears grow
‘The whole dynamic is changing,’ says one analyst Read more at The Business Times.
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Apple’s iPhone Duo hits stores in face of short supply and high demand
The smartphone is the company’s most radical reinvention in its nearly two-decade history Read more at The Business Times.
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Gemini for Business Adds Brand, Marketing and Finance Tools
Gemini for business now adds brand, marketing and finance tools for small firms. Here is how to test it in one week and what to verify…
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Team Messaging App Zenzap Raises $44M to Rival WhatsApp
Team messaging app Zenzap raised $44M to challenge WhatsApp at work. Here is what founders should weigh before switching tools.
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Mass Arbitration Startup Chariot Claims Raises $10M Series A
Mass arbitration startup Chariot Claims raised $10M. Here is what consumer brands should audit in their terms and customer disputes.
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Weak links start to show in AI borrowing
Debt trouble at CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank raises questions about whether there are broader problems with the data centre build-out…
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Shadow AI Risk: Pluto Security Raises $42M for Vibe-Coded Apps
Shadow AI is growing as vibe-coded tools spread. Pluto Security raised $42M, and here is how founders can set simple guardrails.
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From a Six-Year-Old’s Hobby to 10 Million Pounds of Popcorn a Year
Amish Country Popcorn didn’t start with a business plan, a national launch, or a long product list. It began in 1965 with a small plot of…
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Median Net Worth Hits $215,900 in the Fed’s New Survey
The Fed's 2025 survey puts median net worth at $215,900. See what rising debt strain and shifting income mean for founders and their…
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1MDB reaches settlement with Deutsche Bank in US$1.1 billion lawsuit
Claims against major banks continue years after billions of dollars were allegedly siphoned Read more at The Business Times.
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Open Source AI Agent Maker Nous Research Targets Business Users
Nous Research raised $90M to turn its open source AI agent into a business product. Here is how founders should pilot it.
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AI Penetration Testing Gets Backing as Hadrian Raises Funds
Hadrian raised $40M for AI penetration testing. Here is a plain-English framework founders can use to find and fix security gaps on any…
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Teen Entrepreneur Zain Javaid Raises $11M for Ghost
A teen entrepreneur just raised $11M led by a16z for Ghost's $3,499 local AI computer. Here is what young founders can learn from it.
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Clix’s rise: From a Connecticut Kid to an eSports Superstar to Full Box Inc.
Clix just launched Full Box Inc., a holding company to manage and oversee his nine emerging businesses and his impact-focused efforts.
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Is Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust’s manager-internalisation deal the key to reviving S-Reits?
Some view manager-internalisation as a ‘nuclear option’, but Sert is demonstrating that it is also a constructive growth-oriented strategy…
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Oil settles lower after Europe agrees to tap diesel reserves
European countries will release 50 million barrels of diesel, say sources Read more at The Business Times.
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AI Agent Safety Gets an Open Platform From Nvidia
AI agent safety is getting open tools as Nvidia launches OpenShell and Sentry. Here is the simple version founders can apply to their own…
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The $3 Trillion Problem Hiding in Corporate Contracts, and the AI Built to Find It
Terzo says Fortune 500 companies have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars that leaked out of deals they had already won, pointing to…
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Vibe Coding Hits a $600M Milestone With Lovable
Lovable's vibe coding platform crossed $600M in annual revenue. Here's what the milestone means for founders building AI-native products.
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Ecommerce Benchmarking Expands as EMARKETER Acquires RetailX
Ecommerce benchmarking just got bigger. EMARKETER acquired RetailX's research arm, expanding retail rankings founders can use to gauge…