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Anthropic Blueprint$6.4B

Anthropic, PBC[8][9] is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.[

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29 days ago
Firi: The 2026 Beauty Startup Turning AI Curation Into 9-Minute Commerceinc42

Firi: The 2026 Beauty Startup Turning AI Curation Into 9-Minute Commerce

Firi is a 2026-founded beauty-commerce startup built by former Uber India executives Vivek Madani and Karishma Rathaur. After an early pilot, the company began full operations in September 2026 and raised $3 million to expand its AI-curated beauty marketplace and quick-commerce infrastructure.
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imran ahmad
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29 days ago
Koo: How India’s Twitter Challenger Ran Out of RoadANI NEWS

Koo: How India’s Twitter Challenger Ran Out of Road

Koo was India’s ambitious multilingual social media platform, created to challenge Twitter with a stronger focus on Indian languages. The startup attracted millions of users, prominent personalities and over $60 million in funding, reaching a peak valuation of around $285 million. However, weak monetisation, rising cos...
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IMRAN AHMAD
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29 days ago
Perplexity: How an AI Search Startup Became a $20 Billion Information EngineBLOOMBERG.COM

Perplexity: How an AI Search Startup Became a $20 Billion Information Engine

Perplexity is building an AI-native alternative to traditional search, combining web discovery, cited answers, research tools and AI agents into one product. Founded in 2022, the San Francisco startup has rapidly moved from an early-stage search experiment to a multibillion-dollar private company, with its January 2026...
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IMRAN AHMAD
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about 2 months ago
Stripe Is Building the Payment Layer for the AI Shopping Eraforbes

Stripe Is Building the Payment Layer for the AI Shopping Era

Stripe is expanding beyond traditional online payments as AI agents begin shopping on behalf of consumers. Its latest integration with Meta’s Muse allows the AI agent to use Stripe’s Link wallet for purchases across the internet. The move highlights Stripe’s broader strategy to build payment infrastructure for an emerg...
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Imran Ahmed
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about 2 months ago
BlackRock: How a 1988 Startup Became a $15.3 Trillion Global Investment Platformforbes

BlackRock: How a 1988 Startup Became a $15.3 Trillion Global Investment Platform

BlackRock started in 1988 with eight people and grew into one of the world’s largest asset-management companies. Its business spans investment management, ETFs, private markets and financial technology. Led by co-founder Larry Fink, BlackRock also developed Aladdin into a major investment technology platform. By June 2...
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imran ahmad
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2 months ago
How Figma Captured Design Tooling Before Adobe Could ReactUnsplash / Teardown Lab

How Figma Captured Design Tooling Before Adobe Could React

Figma's $20 billion acquisition offer from Adobe validated a product built on one insight: design is collaboration, not creation. Dylan Field launched in a browser when Electron didn't exist, refused enterprise deals that would slow the PLG flywheel, and held multiplayer at the core before Notion or Linear made collaboration a category. Adobe was too slow.
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