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Over the past few months, eleven Korean startups have been doing exactly that through the 2025 Korea IT Cooperation Center (KICC) ICT Growth Program—a government-backed initiative designed to help promising innovators enter the fast-growing ASEAN and Oceania region. Supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT, NIPA, and managed by KICC in Singapore together with Plug and Play, … [Read more...] about A New Wave of Korean Innovation Heads Toward ASEAN and Oceania

It feels like the insurance industry has finally hit its acceleration moment. Federato — the company that keeps describing itself as *AI-native* rather than just "AI-powered" — has closed a fresh $100 million Series D round. The raise was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with existing believers Emergence Capital, Caffeinated Capital, StepStone Group, and Pear … [Read more...] about Federato Secures $100M to Rewrite the Future of Insurance in the Age of AI

Cloud spending is accelerating fast, moving toward a trillion-dollar annual market. That growth comes not only from new workloads but from the shift in how infrastructure is created — any engineer can now deploy resources instantly, often without knowing the financial impact. Infracost was built to address that gap, and the company has now raised a $15 million Series A round to … [Read more...] about Infracost Raises $15M to Bring Real-Time Cloud Cost Visibility Directly Into Developer Workflows

Every now and then my Samsung A12 throws a tiny digital tantrum, flashing a moisture alert and refusing to charge like it’s just been rescued from a shipwreck. The funny part is: it hasn’t. No rain, no sink, no rogue cup of tea. Nothing. And yet there it is — Moisture detected. Charging blocked. A message with the emotional tone of a lifeguard whistle. The truly bizarre … [Read more...] about When Your Phone Thinks It’s Drowning: The Curious Case of the Samsung A12 Moisture Warning

There was something quietly electrifying about watching the Carlsberg Museum slip from its usual calm into a pulsing hub of video technologists, AI researchers, platform architects, and a whole crowd of developers who looked like they were genuinely hungry for the future. The place has an odd gravity to it, partly because of its scientific heritage — this is where the pH scale … [Read more...] about Milestone Developer Summit 2025, November 2025, Copenhagen

There’s something strangely captivating about watching a giant like Palantir toss a rhetorical grenade into the polite world of higher education and then calmly invite teenagers to apply for the fallout. Their second round of applications for what they’re now confidently calling an *anti-college internship* landed this week, and it feels less like a hiring announcement and more … [Read more...] about Palantir’s Anti-College Internship: Why Silicon Valley Is Rewriting the Rules of Talent

There’s an interesting shift happening in how ideas move from the spark of invention to real, defensible intellectual property, and the announcement that Tradespace has acquired Paragon hints at how quickly that shift is accelerating. The basic problem has been obvious to anyone who has ever filed a patent: innovation cycles move fast, but patent drafting remains slow, … [Read more...] about Tradespace Acquires Paragon: The Next Step Toward AI-Native Intellectual Property

There’s a particular tension right now in high-performance computing circles, the kind that feels a bit like everyone is standing in the same checkout line waiting for the same brand of GPU to be restocked. NVIDIA’s CUDA ecosystem has been the golden gatekeeper to AI compute for more than a decade, shaping not just performance expectations but entire supply chains. Companies … [Read more...] about Breaking the CUDA Barrier: Spectral Compute Raises $6M to Let AI Run Anywhere

There’s a certain energy you can almost feel when a market hits its moment, and Glasswing Ventures is clearly betting that we’re standing right on that edge. The firm just closed its Fund III at over $200 million, which, honestly, is a standout result in a venture environment that has been more cautious than ambitious lately. The size matters less than the direction of … [Read more...] about Glasswing Ventures Fund III and the Shape of What Comes Next

There’s something quietly momentous about a company deciding to step into a broader conversation, especially when the conversation is about the future backbone of how the world connects. Smartoptics has done just that by joining the IOWN Global Forum, a group founded by NTT, Intel, and Sony to push forward what comes after today’s networks. The Forum’s whole purpose is to … [Read more...] about Smartoptics Joins the IOWN Global Forum