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UAE-India Start-Up Series 2.0: Applications Open July 15

Nabarun Chakraborty
Founder at Newzchain

Policy • Gulf • india

UAE-India Start-Up Series 2.0: Applications Open July 15

The UAE-India CEPA Council announced on 14 July 2026 that applications for the second edition of the UAE-India Start-Up Series — Start-Up Series 2.0 — open on 15 July 2026. The programme runs a multi-stage selection process culminating in a finals event in November 2026, where

BUILT raises $2M pre-seed for natural movement footwear in India

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Nabarun Chakraborty
Founder at Newzchain

Funding • Fashion • News

BUILT raises $2M pre-seed for natural movement footwear in India

D2C footwear startup BUILT has raised $2 Mn (about ₹17 Cr) in a pre-seed funding round from Singapore-based Tanglin Venture Partners, with participation from Lifelong Group founder Bharat Kalia. Launched earlier this year by Vedant Lamba and Vijayant Dhaka, BUILT is targeting what it calls India's

Anthropic at $965B: The Startup That Outgrew Every Forecast in 14 Months

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Arathy Augusthy
Content Writer @ Newzchain
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Nabarun Chakraborty
Founder at Newzchain

Artificial Intelligence • Funding

Anthropic at $965B: The Startup That Outgrew Every Forecast in 14 Months

* Anthropic raised $3.5B in March 2025 at a $61.5B valuation. * By May 2026 it was valued at $965B with $47B in revenue. The $3.5 Billion Round That Looked Big Until Everything That Came After When Anthropic closed its $3.5 billion Series E in March 2025, the

BARO Vehicles: The Startup Building the Hardware Layer for Autonomous Cars

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Arathy Augusthy
Content Writer @ Newzchain
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Nabarun Chakraborty
Founder at Newzchain

Artificial Intelligence • Automotive

BARO Vehicles: The Startup Building the Hardware Layer for Autonomous Cars

* While Waymo grabs headlines, BARO Vehicles is building the AI computers. * Drive-by-wire systems that others use to develop autonomous vehicles. Here's their story. The AV Industry Has a Waymo Problem — and BARO Is the Alternative Thesis Every mainstream story about autonomous vehicles is about the same

Kobalt Labs: The AI Startup Fixing Compliance at Banks and Fintechs

4 min read

Nabarun Chakraborty
Founder at Newzchain

Artificial Intelligence • Startup Stories

Kobalt Labs: The AI Startup Fixing Compliance at Banks and Fintechs

Kobalt Labs leads Europe in risk ops automation. Their AI platform streamlines research, vendor management, and compliance, ensuring security and efficiency.

McKinsey AI Report 2025: 88% Adoption, But Only 6% Are Winning

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Nabarun Chakraborty
Founder at Newzchain

Artificial Intelligence • News

McKinsey AI Report 2025: 88% Adoption, But Only 6% Are Winning

While AI adoption did not exceed 66% anywhere in the world last year, this year, over two-thirds of respondents in nearly every region indicated their organizations are using AI.

SecureDApp Launches an AI-Powered Blockchain Forensics Platform to Combat Web3 Financial Crimes

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Harshajit Sarmah
Lead Journalist and Writer @ Newzchain
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Blockchain • Product Launch • Cyber Security

SecureDApp Launches an AI-Powered Blockchain Forensics Platform to Combat Web3 Financial Crimes

SecureTrace seeks to fill this gap with real-time, cross-chain tracing and compliance-ready reporting. Its capabilities include transaction pattern analysis, graph-based forensic mapping, chronological reconstruction, and entity clustering.

Block Earner Raises $8M Series A to Expand Crypto-Backed Lending Amid ASIC Battle

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Harshajit Sarmah
Lead Journalist and Writer @ Newzchain
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Funding • Crypto • Fintech

Block Earner Raises $8M Series A to Expand Crypto-Backed Lending Amid ASIC Battle

The new capital will be used to grow Block Earner’s suite of blockchain-powered financial products in Australia and begin building a footprint in international markets, positioning the fintech as a bridge between traditional lending and digital assets.