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Freshworks Acquires AI Startup Robusta To Strengthen IT Operations PlatformSUMMARY Freshworks has acquired Israel-based AI startup Robusta Dev for an undisclosed amount to add AI-powered incident investigation capabilities to Freshservice. Robusta adds automated outage diagnosis and corrective recommendations to Freshworks’ IT …Source: Inc42 – Neutral
AI startup founded by Ex-DOGE staff claims it hacked Anthropic in under 12 hoursShare Anthropic has suffered a security breach after a newly formed US-based AI startup successfully hacked its systems and accessed sensitive internal corporate data. The startup, Cathedral, was founded this year by former staff members of the US …Source: Tech Digest – Pending
AI startup Ravical bags £12m to power accountancy’s private equity boomThursday 29 October 2026 6:00 am | Updated: Wednesday 28 October 2026 5:58 pm Ravical founders: Benjamin Vandermarliere, Joris Van Der Gucht, Ken Bastiaensen AI startup Ravical, serving accounting and tax firms, has raised over £12m in its latest seed …Source: City A.M. – Center-right
Nvidia backs Indian AI startup Simplismart in $14 million funding roundNew Delhi: AI chip giant Nvidia has invested in Bengaluru-based startup Simplismart as part of a $14 million Series B funding round, betting on software that helps enterprises run artificial intelligence models more efficiently and reduce infrastructure …Source: The Hans India – Neutral
Nigerian tech entrepreneur Iyinoluwa Aboyeji launches AI startup to train 1 million engineersIyinoluwa Aboyeji, the Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded Andela and Flutterwave, has launched Talent Nation, a startup that plans to train and place 1 million African artificial intelligence engineers with companies around the world over the next decade …Source: Billionaires.Africa – Neutral
Ex-Meta director Rohit Patel’s AI startup rival Microsoft and Google WorkspaceAfter spending eight years building artificial intelligence systems at Meta, Rohit Patel has decided to step out on his own. The former director at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs told TechCrunch that he has left the tech giant to start his own AI company …Source: India Today – Indeterminate
IIIT Hyderabad alumnus leaves Meta after 14 years to build a $215 million AI startupManohar Paluri spent 14 years at Meta, rising from a computer vision researcher to a vice president overseeing artificial intelligence. Now, the IIIT Hyderabad alumnus is taking on a new challenge: using AI and robotics to help discover medicines faster. …Source: India Today – Indeterminate
Pakistani Entrepreneur Mehroz Munawar Receives AI Startup Award at Malaysia SummitKUALA LUMPUR: Pakistani entrepreneur Mehroz Munawar, founder and chief executive officer of Forteve, has received recognition for his technology venture at the 43rd World School Summit × Cluster of Achievers (COA) 2026, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on …Source: ARY News – Indeterminate
Nigerian serial tech founder launches AI startupA Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded two billion-dollar African startups and was a founding investor in a third is making another bold bet: that African software engineers will fill the rising global demand for AI talent. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji has started …Source: Semafor – Neutral
Apex Intelligence Releases Apex-35B-V1.0, a Qwen3.6-Based Model Built With AI Research AgentsApex Intelligence, a Chinese AI startup founded in June 2026, released its first model, Apex-35B-V1.0, on October 28. The weights are on Hugging Face. The model is built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and was further developed through mid-training and post- …Source: Pandaily – Neutral
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