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  1. Find XO: Google Android dominance ruling concluded, what founders should watch in app distribution and in-app payments (techxplore.com)

    SummaryThe European Court of Justice dismissed Google's final appeal on July 2, confirming the €4.1 billion Android antitrust fine. The ruling that forced pre-installation of Search and Chrome is abuse of d…

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  2. Find XO: Venture Investment Regulations to Be Lifted in the Second Half of the Year (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryThis article summarizes news that venture investment regulations will be lifted and R&D support will increase in the second half of 2026. However, the timing of regulations being lifted and the actua…

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  3. Find XO: How to Structure Your Pitch in Front of Investors (techcrunch.com)

    SummaryThis article discusses how early-stage founders are struggling to raise funds despite the influx of money into AI startups. In the Australian case, over $300 million was invested in Q2 2023, with see…

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  4. Find XO: Wise Pivot of AI Startups (techcrunch.com)

    SummaryThis article takes Databricks' $188 billion valuation as an opportunity to examine the data analytics market and AI integration. However, simply adding AI does not automatically bring a high valuatio…

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  5. Find XO: Startups, Collaborate with the Government (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryGangwon and Gyeongbuk Creative Economy Innovation Centers have consecutively launched startup nurturing programs bundled with IP strategies. While the increase in such programs is welcome, being sele…

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  6. Find XO: New Opportunities for Startups: The Harmony of Fintech and ESG (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryThe domestic fintech market and ESG investment are growing together. More notable than market size forecasts is that nine companies are setting up carbon management systems using other budgets. Most…

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  7. Find XO: AI Travel Agency Fora Became a Unicorn with $60 Million Funding (techcrunch.com)

    SummaryAI travel agency Fora became a unicorn by raising $60 million. However, raising investment and reaching unicorn status do not prove Fora's defensibility. Personalization features can also be offered…

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  8. Find XO: AI Creates E-Commerce Content Instead (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryHookable, which creates detailed pages using AI, received a seed bridge investment from Smilegate Investment. They reportedly have over 13,000 corporate clients, but because the unit price per detail…

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  9. Find XO: Watt, Studio Aim, and Modakbul Energy Selected for TIPS (platum.kr)

    SummaryWatt, Studio Aim, and Modakbul Energy were selected for TIPS. The moment selection itself is read as an achievement is the most dangerous. For small teams, government support is the only runway, so t…

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  10. Find XO: Nooble AI Opens the Future of Brain Disease Diagnosis with Medical AI (platum.kr)

    SummaryNooble AI has received 400 million KRW in seed funding from FuturePlay to develop BrainCura, a brain CT-based diagnostic AI. The funding is tight even for passing a single medical device approval, bu…

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  11. Find XO: AI, a New Frontier in Life Science Innovation (platum.kr)

    SummaryAI identity verification company Argos Identity raised $3 million, Connectorie received pre-seed investment, and KAIST is gathering five teams for its bio-venture acceleration program. Since the fiel…

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  12. Find XO: Revolutionizing Agriculture with AI and Satellite Data (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryCrowdWorks and the Rural Development Administration have started an agricultural collaboration combining AI and satellite data. Agricultural AI is judged not by the fact that data was collected but b…

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  13. Find XO: Startup Environment Accelerated by Deep Tech and Defense Industry Investment (platum.kr)

    SummaryMeshUp Ventures has appointed Partner Eunwoo Park, who has extensive experience in defense and deep tech investments, as Vice President and CIO. Personnel changes at investment firms indicate directi…

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  14. Find XO: Background of Investment in Industrial Safety AI Startup (platum.kr)

    SummarySaimee, an industrial safety AI startup established in 2021, received investment from CNT Tech. It focuses on automatically creating safety documents and educational content in response to the Seriou…

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  15. Find XO: How to Sell Financial Education as a Subscription (venturesquare.net)

    SummarySalaried wealth seekers are newly forming financial tech teams to expand personalized education, and AB180 has partnered with RevenueCat to pursue subscription monetization. Demand for financial educ…

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  16. Find XO: Opportunities in the AI Agent Market (Founder Perspective) (techcrunch.com)

    SummaryNous Research is raising over $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. This valuation is more of a bet that agents will generate revenue in the future rather than proof that they have already made mo…

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  17. Find XO: The Paradox of Steam's All-Time Highest Revenue: Old Games, Not New Releases, Made the Money (kotaku.com)

    SummarySteam recorded its highest-ever half-year revenue of $11.1 billion in the first half of 2026, with only 21% from new releases and 79% from older titles. That doesn't mean marketing for new releases s…

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  18. Find XO: Nvidia and Hugging Face Release Agent Training Data, Where Does the Data Moat Remain Now? (huggingface.co)

    SummaryNvidia and Hugging Face have released a large number of open datasets for AI agent training and evaluation. From 200,000 software agent trajectories to corpora of up to 10 trillion tokens, anyone can…

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  19. Find XO: Recruitment or Theft? What Apple vs OpenAI Lawsuit Asks Founders (ft.com)

    SummaryOn July 10, Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, io Products, hardware head Tang Tan, and former employee Chang Liu for alleged trade secret theft. The claims include requiring candidates to bring p…

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  20. Find XO: Chinese Open Models Cut Inference Costs by up to 90%, But Entrepreneurs Should Focus on Where Their Data Goes (ft.com)

    SummaryAs OpenAI and Anthropic API prices rise, U.S. and European companies are switching to Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek and Q1. Because they handle the same tasks 60% to 90% cheaper. However,…

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  21. Find XO: Pushing AI Use Backfired: Conditions for Adoption Small Teams Can Learn (ft.com)

    SummaryCompanies that forced employees to use AI are facing backlash. A study of about 6,000 executives found that over 80% of companies did not perceive a clear productivity change from AI, and organizatio…

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  22. Find XO: Growth Foundation for South Korean Startups: Investment and Innovation (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryHoliday Robotics received 155 billion KRW in Series A funding, and K-beauty startup Prawn secured Pre-A investment. The fact that this amount went into Series A suggests that more value was placed on…

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  23. Find XO: The Importance of Shareholder Returns and Digital Transformation (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryBarrel increased shareholder returns through a 1 billion KRW share repurchase, while Orkestro Cloud transferred AI-based cloud transformation capabilities to the Moroccan Customs Administration. Thes…

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  24. Find XO: Execution Is Success: The Path of Entrepreneurs (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryThis article emphasizes execution, spearheaded by support from the Gyeongnam Center for Creative Economy and Innovation. Joining support programs and adding AI do not automatically create execution c…

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  25. Find XO: Veramore Gains New Growth Engine Through Investment (platum.kr)

    SummaryAnti-aging skincare brand Veramore received a pre-Series A investment from Rakuten Capital. The actual opening from the investor's name is one Japanese e-commerce distribution channel. The market gro…

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  26. Find XO: Data Management Is the Key to Startup Success (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryInfobank is transforming investment reporting into a data-centric process together with CNT Tech, while Linkup is improving liquor distribution using AI. What buyers really value is not flashy analyt…

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  27. Find XO: Oratomic Raised $300 Million Aiming for 20,000-Qubit Quantum Computer (techcrunch.com)

    SummaryOratomic has raised $300 million to develop a practical quantum computer with 20,000 qubits. The target number and investment size alone do not prove practical viability. What has changed is not the…

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  28. Find XO: The Importance of Ethical Marketing (Founder's Perspective) (techcrunch.com)

    SummaryPhia is accused of cookie stuffing. In affiliate marketing, a risk that founders often overlook is not in the advertising copy but in whose performance the revenue is attributed to. Even if the resul…

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  29. Find XO: The Path for Korean Startups to Leap onto the Global Stage (venturesquare.net)

    SummaryThis article discusses that Korean startups need innovation and investment attraction based on global standards to enter the global stage. However, rushing overseas expansion just because investment…

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  30. Find XO: The Era of AI Agents Leading Fundraising (techcrunch.com)

    SummaryLyzr raised 100 million dollars by leveraging AI agents. While the story of the product securing investment on its own sounds impressive in demos, there is a gap between an agent that earns money onc…

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