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- MENA Start-Up Funding Falls 96% in October as Tabby Cash Passes 1 Million Accounts · Nov 14, 2026
- OpenAI Raises $15 Billion at $1.25 Trillion Valuation, Half Its Original Target · Nov 14, 2026
- Saudi AI Start-Up Shaffra Says Its Digital Employees Saved Clients 800,000 Work Hours · Nov 14, 2026
- Rox Raises $100 Million at $1.3 Billion Valuation as Aramco's Prosperity7 Joins · Nov 14, 2026
- Investors Fear Huang's Exit Will Cut Nvidia's Startup Funding and Push Valuations Down · Nov 13, 2026
- Nvidia Joined a Record 121 Startup Rounds This Year Before Huang's Exit, Crunchbase Says · Nov 13, 2026
- EDGE Invests $50 Million in Quantum Navigation Firm Q-CTRL's $290 Million Round · Nov 13, 2026
- LangChain Raises $300 Million at $3 Billion Valuation in Round Led by CapitalG · Nov 13, 2026
- Saudi Arabia Joins AWS's 'Accelerating' Tier as 13% of Its Startups Build Physical AI · Nov 12, 2026
- Norwest Raises $4 Billion Fund, Its Largest Yet, to Expand Its AI Investing · Nov 12, 2026
- Helix Raises $6 Million for On-Device Voice Checks That Tell Humans From Bots · Nov 11, 2026
- Saudi Startup Mawsool Raises Pre-Seed Round for AI Sales Intelligence Platform · Nov 11, 2026
- Plurai Raises $13 Million to Test AI Agents in Simulated Copies of Company Systems · Nov 11, 2026
- Mercor Raises $750 Million at $20 Billion Valuation to Sell AI Agent Testing to Enterprises · Nov 10, 2026
- OpenAI Buys AI Travel Agent Odessia and Hires Sonder Co-Founder Francis Davidson · Nov 10, 2026
- Startup PSI Uses Anthropic Model to Prove a Long-Open Quantum Computing Conjecture · Nov 10, 2026
- Oura Agrees to Buy AI Primary Care Startup Counsel Health for $625 Million in Cash · Nov 10, 2026
- Cyanogen Co-Founder Unveils Kora, a Linux Desktop OS Built to Run Multiple AI Models · Nov 10, 2026
- Sharjah's CE-Ventures Invests in Oyster Therapeutics' $60 Million Series A · Nov 10, 2026
- Hub71's Life Sciences Programme Draws 58 Startups That Raised AED1.7 Billion in Its First Year · Nov 10, 2026