One AI, one startup and one sustainability subjects make up this week’s stories 1-Ex-OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s new startup, SSI, raised $1 billion Safe Superintelligence (SSI), recently co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1 billion, according to Reuters. Here’s what we know so […]
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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week – 26th – 30th August, 2024
AI, data center and sustainability are this week’s stories 1-Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft plan to invest in ChatGPT maker’s OpenAI Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft are all in talks to join OpenAI’s funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at more than $100 billion, according toThe […]
Refabric, selected for LVMH’s acceleration program, raised $1.16 mio at $4.75 million valuation
Refabric completed pre-seed round investment Refabric, an AI-powered software company in the fashion and textile industry, completed its pre-seed investment round.Having co-founded by Seda Domaniç, Begüm Doğru Öztekin, Safiye Dinçtürk Turgut, Hakan Baş, Mustafa Alpay and Alemşah Öztürk, The Delaware-based company raised $1.16 million at […]
Evreka, Turkish sustainability startup, to provide technology to Saudi Arabia’s Neom project
Turkish startup involved in Saudi Arabia’s futuristic project, Neom Evreka, a Turkish sustainability startup specializing in waste and material management technology, expands its presence in the Gulf countries by participating in significant projects in Saudi Arabia. Continuing its efforts to establish the smart waste management […]
Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, 12th – 16th August, 2024
AI-capable PC sales, Norway’s wealth fund and sustainability in traffic are this week’s top stories 1-14% of PCs shipped are AI-capable Microsoft calls it Copilot + PC, while Intel says AI PC. Here is the thing: 14% of PCs shipped globally in Q2 2024 are […]
Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, 15th-19th July, 2024
Google, IDC and Instagram are this week’s top 3 stories 1-Google in talks to acquire Wiz, a cloud security startup, for $23bio Google is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity firm Wiz for $23 billion, according to Wall Street Journal. When completed, it would become […]
Introducing Turkish startups: Proemtia, an industrial commodity platform
Proemtia owns 100 sellers and more than 1,000 buyer companies from 21 cities in Türkiye Having founded by Türkiye İş Bankası in May, one of the leading banks of Türkiye, Proemtia serves as an online iron and steel marketplace. It brings together companies of all […]
Introducing Turkish startups: Werover
A very niche startup and here’s Werover’s story with the words from the founder, Balca Yılmaz Werover is a operating in a very nich area: it used to work with ship and submarine companies to solve their problems under the sea. Then, it pivoted and […]
Introducing Turkish startups: Nivogo, operating in circular economy
Nivogo is Turkey’s first circular store selling renewed clothes and here’s their story Circular economy is a hot topic for today’s world, signaling “…reduces material use, redesigns materials, products, and services to be less resource intensive, and recaptures ‘waste’ as a resource to manufacture new […]
Introducing Turkish startups: Cognitiwe
Cognitiwe handles itself as a sustainability startup through its computer vision solutions Cognitiwe is a Turkish computer vision startup that converts video and images into data, delivering Vision AI product that can reduce costs and increase sustainability in a wide range of industries. Founded in […]