Melius, a startup offering AI agents for creative work, has raised $25 million in new funding. The new financing, announced Tuesday (Oct. 6), will help Melius expand its platform, designed for people using artificial intelligence (AI) to create images, videos and ad campaigns. “Transitioning from wanting to...
Anthropic expanded its Claude Startups program to more founders, the company said via its Claude account in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) post on social platform X. The Claude Startups program is expanding to more founders. Members can get a year of Claude Team, API credits,...
CrowdStrike says it is seeking applicants for its fourth annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator. The program, run in tandem with Nvidia and Amazon Web Services (AWS), is designed for “startups building the future of cybersecurity for the agentic era,” CrowdStrike said in its announcement Tuesday (Oct. 6). “The next generation of agentic cybersecurity...
One of the researchers behind AlphaGo is seeking tens of millions of dollars from a small initial group of backers for a new startup called Metis Reasoning, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 24). AlphaGo is the Google DeepMind program that beat a world champion at the...
July 30, 2026
Most consumer apps run on the same logic. An algorithm scans what already exists and serves the user the closest match. Kaon AI CEO and Co-Founder Jay Dang said the model has a ceiling built into it. In a conversation with PYMNTS, Dang said Kaon skips algorithmic recommendation altogether. Rather than surface the best existing […]
February 04, 2026
Adding crypto into the finance stack has traditionally had the flair of a younger business. On Tuesday (Feb. 3), the startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) codified that impression, announcing that...
November 10, 2025
Kamran Ansari has lived through nearly every major turn in FinTech, from the first digital wallets and mobile payments to the rise (and recalibration) of billion-dollar disruptors. With nearly 100...
October 08, 2025
The FinTech initial public offering (IPO) market has roared back to life in 2025 after several quiet years. However, it’s not the same speculative surge that defined the last cycle....
October 08, 2026
Peppermint raised $4.7 million in seed funding for its artificial intelligence-powered financial operations platform designed for teams that run clinical research, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 8) press release Peppermint’s platform is designed to provide a continuous, audited record of every visit, invoice and dollar a clinical research site is owed, according to […]
October 07, 2026
Melius, a startup offering AI agents for creative work, has raised $25 million in new funding. The new financing, announced Tuesday (Oct. 6), will help Melius expand its platform, designed for people...
October 06, 2026
Anthropic expanded its Claude Startups program to more founders, the company said via its Claude account in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) post on social platform X. The Claude Startups program...
October 06, 2026
CrowdStrike says it is seeking applicants for its fourth annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator. The program, run in tandem with Nvidia and Amazon Web Services (AWS), is designed for “startups building the future of cybersecurity for...
