Startups
Pakistani Co-Founded AI Startup Raises $62.5M Series B Funding
How A Kenyan Entrepreneur Turned Ice Cubes Into a Profitable Business
Gladys Anyango, founder of Glad-Ice Enterprise, stumbled onto a business opportunity that many people overlook every day. She now runs a profitable ice production business…
This Video Commerce Pakistani Startup Is About to Scale Massively
BuyPass.ai, a Pakistani video commerce platform, has secured funding from Myco Holdings, marking an acceleration of the startup’s expansion strategy across South Asia’s largest untapped…
Jeff Bezos Steps Into Co-CEO Role at AI Startup Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has returned to the CEO chair for the first time since stepping down from Amazon in 2021, taking the co-CEO role at Project…
British-Pakistani Founder Ilyas Khan Becomes Billionaire After Quantinuum’s $15B IPO
Ilyas Khan, a British-Pakistani quantum computing pioneer, became a billionaire, when Quantinuum completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq at $60 per share. His stake…
The Nostradamus of AI: Meet the 25-Year-Old Who Built a $20 Billion AI Hedge Fund
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness LP has crossed $20 billion in assets under management after gaining 270% in 2026 through May and over…
11 Pakistani Startups Join UK Climate Finance Accelerator to Unlock Green Investment
Eleven Pakistani businesses have been selected for the 2026 cohort of the UK-funded Climate Finance Accelerator Pakistan. The program has mobilized up to $40 million…
This Pakistani Startup Beat 700 Others to Get to Accelerating Asia Cohort 13
Pakistani supply chain startup Driftly is selected for Cohort 13 of Accelerating Asia Ventures, earning a spot in one of the region’s competitive startup accelerator…
Why Are Global Startups Suddenly Flocking to Abu Dhabi?
Abu Dhabi’s Hub71 selected 27 startups for Cohort 18 from a record 2,453 applications across 112 countries, an acceptance rate of just 1.1%. For the…
This Quiet Startup Wants to Put a $30,000 Robot in Every Home
While Silicon Valley pours billions into flashy humanoid robots, a small startup in Martinez, California, is taking the opposite approach. The company Hello Robot just…
This 146-Person Startup Just Signed a Massive Deal With Google
Vibe-coding startup Lovable signed an expanded multi-year deal with Google Cloud, fivefold-ing its footprint and gaining wider access to Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. The…
The Airlift Founder Is Back. But Can This New Startup Succeed?
Airlift co-founder Usman Gul’s new startup Metal has secured a Rebel Fund investment. The deal revives memories of Airlift, once Pakistan’s most-funded startup, which burned…
Your Smart Home Device Could Stop Working Tomorrow and Here Is Why
The global smart home market is growing toward $180 billion in 2026, yet hundreds of products have already died taking user data with them. The…