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Find XO: Daejeon Social Venture Program, a Strategic Weapon for Founders (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Daejeon Innovation Center gathers startups aiming for both technological innovation and measurable social value. Supported by connections with KAIST and ETRI, it offers non-dilutive funding. The…
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Find XO: Cerebras IPO: Lessons for Hardware Founders (techcrunch.com)
SummaryCerebras highlighted its WSE-3 chip with 4 trillion transistors, a deal with OpenAI worth over $10 billion, and collaboration with AWS as it filed for an IPO. Since its founding in 2016, the company…
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Find XO: Loop Secures $95M Investment, Lessons from Supply Chain AI Startup (techcrunch.com)
SummarySan Francisco's Loop has raised $95 million in a Series C round led by Valor. It is an AI platform that predicts supply chain disruptions 4 to 12 weeks in advance, and investors still heavily back ve…
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Find XO: Cursor $50 Billion: Signals AI Founders Must Not Miss (techcrunch.com)
SummaryCursor is in talks for over $2 billion in investment led by a16z and Thrive, with a valuation quoted at $50 billion. The functional differences between coding tools quickly diminished, but value conc…
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Find XO: Adenasoft Integrates AI Across Entire Financial SaaS Process (venturesquare.net)
SummaryAdenasoft announced that it will incorporate AI throughout the entire financial SaaS process, from planning to budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and CRM. As the scope of automation widens, it become…
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Find XO: Family Travel Tech: Local Experts as the Moat (venturesquare.net)
SummaryLinkoVation is refining its family-tailored travel service, Oase, after securing seed investment from Primer. Multigenerational family trips require managing many details, so they opted to combine AI…
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Find XO: Seize Stablecoin Infrastructure in the AI Agent Economy (venturesquare.net)
SummaryHecto Financial has stepped forward to build infrastructure where AI agents can make payments and automatically settle accounts using stablecoins. In environments where machines repeatedly handle mic…
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Find XO: Gyeongju 2026: Investment Breakthrough for Local Entrepreneurs (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Gyeongbuk Center for Creative Economy & Innovation and Gyeongju Hwabaek Convention Bureau have decided to jointly hold the 2026 Local Brand Fair and Startup Festival. The focus will be on IR, inv…
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Find XO: MarkVision's Big Tech Talent Acquisition and the AI Agent War (venturesquare.net)
SummaryMarkVision has brought in five leaders at once from Amazon, TikTok, and GitHub. Filling five areas, sales, platform, customer success, HR, and finance, simultaneously signals an intent to rapidly sca…
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Find XO: Expand into Chengdu, China through the Golden Panda Competition (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Incheon Creative Economy Innovation Center has been in charge of the Korean preliminaries for the Golden Panda Global Innovation Startup Competition in Chengdu, China for three years, and this ye…
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Find XO: The Era of 3.9 Trillion Government Funding: How to Use 'Everyone's Startup' (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Ministry of SMEs and Startups, led by Minister Han Sung-sook, is promoting 'Everyone's Startup' at 11 universities including Chungnam National University, KAIST, and Seoul National University. Th…
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Find XO: Behavior Recognition AI Controls Wellness Spaces (venturesquare.net)
SummaryIntelivix partners with Ceragem to combine behavior recognition AI with healthcare devices to create smart wellness spaces. Ceragem has formed a healthcare alliance with 70 partner companies. The mar…
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Find XO: Instagram Toon Character Exhibited at Gallery (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Gyeonggi Content Agency held an offline exhibition of the Instagram toon character Simdeoreongkeun in Pangyo. This was an attempt to test whether an IP that grew on social media can generate sale…
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Find XO: Gangwon Bio Startups Collaborate with Hospitals (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Gangwon Creative Economy Innovation Center is partnering with Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital and others to support clinical validation for bio and healthcare startups. They off…
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Find XO: Primer Became the Operating Agency for Everyone's Startup in Seoul (platum.kr)
SummaryPrimer has been selected as the operating agency for Everyone's Startup in the Seoul region by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. This project aims to discover 5,000 startups by engaging over 100 ins…
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Find XO: Kalshi's Victory: Why Regulatory Moats Create Trillions in Value (techcrunch.com)
SummaryArizona tried to indict Kalshi on 20 felony counts for illegal gambling, but the CFTC intervened and put a stop to it. The argument was that prediction market contracts are derivatives, and federal a…
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Find XO: The Power of Investment-Linked Incubation Proven by SparkLabs' KSGC Results (platum.kr)
SummarySparkLabs produced the top companies for two consecutive years at the K-Startup Grand Challenge. This program, operated by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups for 11 years, provides foreign startup tea…
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Find XO: $7.1 Billion Fusion Market, Winner-Takes-All Rule (techcrunch.com)
SummaryMore than 90% of the $7.1 billion invested in private fusion has concentrated on the top 13 companies that each received over $100 million. One company, CFS, took about $3 billion, accounting for rou…
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Find XO: TechCrunch Battlefield Goes to Tokyo (techcrunch.com)
SummaryTechCrunch Startup Battlefield is partnering with SusHi Tech 2026 to hold an event in Tokyo. It will focus on four areas: AI, robotics, resilience, and entertainment, with a prize of $100,000 and a s…
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Find XO: Ideas Have Become Public Goods: Survival Tips for the AI Startup Era (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Invention Lab has made its startup idea generation tool IDEAGACHA freely available. It can help you draft applications quickly, but getting a plausible sentence and identifying the customer's act…
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Find XO: Up to 60 Billion KRW Per Company: Conditions for Deep Tech Scale-up Funding (platum.kr)
SummaryThe Ministry of SMEs and Startups and Korea Venture Investment are promoting a next-generation unicorn fund that can invest up to 60 billion KRW in one AI or deep tech company. If a private VC first…
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Find XO: Collide Capital Raises $95 Million Fund (techcrunch.com)
SummaryCollide Capital, founded in 2021 by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, former employees of Goldman Sachs and Lightspeed, has closed its second fund at $95 million. They invest $1 million to $3 million…
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Find XO: TechCrunch Battlefield 200: Worth Over $100,000 (techcrunch.com)
SummaryTechCrunch Startup Battlefield selects only 200 teams out of thousands of applications and opens pathways to meet investors like Khosla Ventures. The selection criteria prioritize a working MVP and t…
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Find XO: Rockplace-Databricks Alliance: Integration of AI Infrastructure (venturesquare.net)
SummaryRockplace is partnering with Databricks to expand its Lakehouse-based AI data platform business. By merging with Metanet affiliates, they have over 300 IT personnel and annual sales of about 150 bill…
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Find XO: KIBO and KVI Support from Seed to IPO (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Korea Technology Finance Corporation and KAIST Young Entrepreneurs Investment Group signed an agreement at the Chungcheong Regional Headquarters to jointly support local deep tech startups from s…
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Find XO: 10 XR Startups Head to Tokyo (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Gyeonggi Content Agency has selected 10 XR startups to support with commercialization funding and participation in the Tokyo XR Fair. The XR market is shifting its focus from entertainment experi…
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Find XO: How a 26-Person Team Threatens Big Tech AI (techcrunch.com)
SummaryArcee AI, a 26-person startup in Miami, spent 20 million dollars over six months to build a 400-billion-parameter open-source model. They used 2,048 NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs and are targeting a nar…
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Find XO: From a 6 Billion Won Loss to a 1.8 Billion Won Operating Profit: Enrise's Turnaround (venturesquare.net)
SummaryEnrise, which operates the home training app Quat and dating app Wiffy, posted an operating profit of 1.82 billion won in 2025. After a 6 billion won loss in 2022, it achieved two consecutive years o…
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Find XO: Eclipse's $1.3 Billion Fund Marks the Dawn of the Physical AI Era (techcrunch.com)
SummaryVenture capital firm Eclipse has created a new $1.3 billion fund dedicated to Physical AI. They plan not just to invest in existing startups but to incubate by building and growing companies directly…
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Find XO: Weeplo, a Drone Predictive Maintenance AI, Raises 5.5 Billion KRW and Enters Defense Sector (venturesquare.net)
SummaryWeeplo, which develops AI for drone diagnostics, raised 5.5 billion KRW in its Series A funding, bringing total investments to 11.8 billion KRW. Its technology uses non-contact fusion sensors to diag…
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