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AI is making building and launching products exponentially faster, but current user research is still painfully slow, expensive and biased. Even with AI-moderated interviews, getting user feedback from 50-100 participants still takes days.
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Reliable Robotics extended its Series D round with $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt.
Founders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for quality, hiring exceptional talent and automating processes to scale efficiently, argues Nacho De Marco, who draws on his experience bootstrapping BairesDev, to emphasize financial…
All told, fintech startups raised $10.6 billion globally in the third quarter of 2026, down 28.4% from $14.9 billion in Q2 2026 and 21.4% from $13.5 billion in Q3 2025.
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend.
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The company announced the investment today at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin.
The startup combines human recruiters with custom AI sourcing agents, betting that fast-growing companies want help hiring without another tool to manage. For a startup trying to grow quickly, recruiting can become a job of its own.
Quantum computers don’t all work the same way, and that creates a problem for developers. Code written for one machine may need to be rewritten before it can run on another. Postquant Labs wants to change that.
Apple will buy up to $100M of titanium from Perryman, a family-owned producer in Pennsylvania, over the next three years, the company announced. The metal will be used in several Apple products, including the casing of the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone.
Qualcomm plans to cut jobs around the world after its yearly staff reviews, with affected employees due to be told from November. Chief executive Cristiano Amon set out the plan to staff on Monday, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
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