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Yotta Launches ₹10,000 Free AI Credits Program on Shakti Studio to Boost AI Innovation in India

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Yotta

New Delhi, India: Yotta Data Services has launched a ₹10,000 Free Credits Program for Shakti Studio, its AI development and inference platform, aimed at helping developers, startups, enterprises, researchers, and Global Capability Centers (GCCs) build and deploy artificial intelligence applications without the upfront cost of GPU infrastructure. The initiative provides complimentary access to serverless GPU … Read more

Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Rounds This Week: Onyx Security Leads with $113 Million Series B

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Asia Funding this week

August 2026: Venture capital activity across Asia remained strong this week, with startups spanning cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, and sports technology collectively raising hundreds of millions of dollars to accelerate growth and product development. Leading this week’s funding activity was cybersecurity startup Onyx Security, which secured $113 million in a Series B … Read more

Singapore’s ADA acquires India’s Algonomy to expand AI retail decisioning across 34 markets

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ADA

Singapore/Bengaluru: AI and data company ADA has completed the acquisition of Algonomy, a Bengaluru-headquartered AI retail decisioning platform, in a strategic move aimed at expanding its global footprint and strengthening its enterprise AI capabilities. While the companies did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction, the acquisition significantly enhances ADA’s portfolio by integrating advanced … Read more

Funding in India: The Definitive 2025–26 Playbook for Founders

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Funding in India

From your first angel cheque to Series C and beyond — real data, proven frameworks, and the government schemes most founders leave on the table. India’s startup ecosystem has crossed a quiet but important threshold. It is no longer a market where a handful of headline-grabbing rounds define the year — it is a deep, … Read more

Karnataka to Launch India’s First Government-Led AI University and AI Hub

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Karnataka

Bengaluru: Karnataka has announced plans to establish India’s first government-led Artificial Intelligence (AI) University along with a dedicated AI Hub, reinforcing the state’s ambition to become a global centre for artificial intelligence, innovation, and advanced technology. The announcement was made by Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar while inaugurating Google I/O Connect India 2026 at the Bangalore … Read more

Asia’s Startup Funding Roundup: 10 Deals, $92.9 Million, and an AI Funding Wave (July 5-10, 2026)

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Asia weekly Funding

A breakdown of the top 10 Asian startup funding deals for July 5-10, 2026 — from Velocity’s $27M AI seed round to Onpoint’s $600K pre-seed — with sector trends, total capital raised, and what the week’s data reveals. The Week in Numbers Ten startups across Asia and adjacent markets closed funding rounds between July 5 … Read more

EXL to Acquire iMerit in $310 Million Deal

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EXL to acquire iMerit Technology

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, and organizations are increasingly seeking partners capable of building trustworthy, domain-specific AI solutions. In one of the biggest AI-focused acquisitions of the year, EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire AI model training and reinforcement learning specialist iMerit in a transaction valued … Read more

The Inner Engine: What It Really Takes to Earn Antler’s Bet

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Exclusive Interaction with Magnus Grimeland, founder and CEO, Antler

The Inner Engine — Magnus Grimeland | BEYOND Expo 2026 Exclusive Interview June 2026  ·  Macau Beyond Expo 2026 Venture Capital  ·  Innovation  ·  Asia The Inner Engine: What It Really Takesto Earn Antler’s Bet Magnus Grimeland — CEO of the world’s most active early-stage VC — doesn’t want your pitch deck. He wants to … Read more

Sequoia Capital Joins Anthropic’s Massive Funding Round — Despite Competing Bets in AI

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Sequoia

In a move that’s sparking serious conversation across Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital is reportedly participating in a major new funding round for Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Claude chatbot, according to a report from the Financial Times. What’s drawing attention isn’t just the size of the investment — it’s the fact that … Read more

AUI Raises $20 Million at $750 Million Valuation to Advance Neuro-Symbolic Conversational AI with Apollo-1

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AUI

AUI (Augmented Intelligence Inc.), the company behind Apollo-1, the world’s first neuro-symbolic foundation model for task-oriented conversational AI, has raised $20 million in new funding, reaching a $750 million valuation cap and bringing its total funding to nearly $60 million to date. The funding round saw participation from eGateway Ventures, existing shareholders, investors from New … Read more

Ubilink AI Center Unveils Cutting-Edge Infrastructure to Accelerate AI Innovation in Taiwan

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Taipei, Taiwan – August 5, 2025 – In a strategic move to advance artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Taiwan, Ubilink AI Center has announced the launch of a world-class high-performance computing (HPC) facility, equipped with 128 NVIDIA H100 GPU servers. This powerful setup delivers computing performance up to 45.82 PetaFlops, making it one of the … Read more