The rise and fall of Byju's, once a startup darling in India
Byju's, once India's most valuable startup, has seen a sharp reversal in its fortunes after a series of setbacks, including alleged accounting irregularities and purported mismanagement.
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Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding
Figure AI, a startup working to build humanoid robots that can perform dangerous and undesirable jobs, just got a big vote of confidence from some of the largest names in artificial intelligence.
U.S. startup tackles Japan succession crisis with employee ownership
PALO ALTO, California -- Teamshares, a U.S. startup that specializes in buying small businesses that lack successors and transitioning them to employee ownership, is expanding into Japan, where succession is an increasingly pressing issue for companies with aging owners.
Once India's most valuable startup, Byju's staring at founder exit
BENGALURU -- Investors in Indian online education startup Byju's voted Friday in favor of ousting its founder and his family from the board, widening a rift between the two factions amid an acute cash crunch and mounting losses at a company that was once India's most valuable startup.
Ex-Disney star Bridgit Mendler accidentally checked a box on a college application—now she's running a startup because of it
Bridgit Mendler's path from Disney Channel star to space startup CEO started with — quite literally — an accident.
Investors hit the road as India's startup story moves beyond metros
NEW DELHI -- A growing tribe of private equity and venture capital investors is heading to India's hinterland amid a rise in local tech talent coupled with improving infrastructure, increasing Internet penetration and lower operational expenses.
Harvard, Oxford graduates power Vietnam's tech startup scene
HO CHI MINH CITY -- Tran Tuan Anh has joined the vanguard of entrepreneurs reshaping Vietnam's image and role in the global economy today. But he still remembers how badly he once did years ago in an economics class for engineers after he left the communist country to study at Oxford.
'The holy grail’: Startup backed by a Nobel laureate vying for a breakthrough on hydrogen storage
A California-based startup backed by two pioneering scientists, one of whom is a Nobel laureate, believes it is on the cusp of a "quantum leap" in the hydrogen energy race.