Sychedelic (ex-Neuphony) raises $3.5M seed to turn EEG headbands into wellness headphones
The Delhi NCR startup pivoted from brain-tracking headbands to headphones with biofeedback and tDCS, with a Kickstarter slated for June 2026.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTESwsh turns 'Most Likely To' into a nightly Gen Z friendship app on a $1.7M pre-seed
Five ChatGPT-powered questions every night at 9 PM let friends vote on each other, in a social app aimed at real friendships rather than followers.
Leer el casoSwiggy reportedly laid off 350-400 staff to reach profit before its IPO
Entrackr, citing two sources, reported Swiggy cut 5-6% of its workforce, its second such round in 12 months, to turn profitable and prepare a listing.
Leer el casoSupertails raises $15M to add pet healthcare and its first offline stores
Bengaluru pet marketplace Supertails raised a Series B led by RPSG to widen its pharmacy and vet services and go omnichannel, aiming at INR 500 Cr ARR.
Leer el casoSuperOps lays off about 60, 30% of staff, mostly engineers, to become AI-first
The IT-management SaaS startup that raised a $25M Series C in 2025 cut around 60 jobs in April 2026 to realign with an AI-focused roadmap.
Leer el casoStash raises $40M through a convertible note to skip a priced round and head toward an IPO
In October 2023 investing app Stash took $40M in convertible notes led by T. Rowe Price instead of a priced round, trading growth for profitability.
Leer el casoSorare laid off 22 in New York to centralise product in Paris as web3 gaming sputtered
In February 2024 Sorare cut 22 New York jobs, 13% of staff, and moved product development to Paris, while keeping U.S. partnerships staff.
Leer el casoSamsung acquired French prenatal-ultrasound AI startup Sonio after a second FDA clearance
Sonio, whose AI guides obstetric ultrasound exams, won French government approval for Samsung to buy 100% of its shares in September 2024.
Leer el casoSonder, a London connections app, keeps sign-up tedious on purpose and runs events
Four part-time London founders built an unstructured, collage-style profile app and refuse AI profile generation, betting effort filters for effort.
Leer el casoSizzle, from Meta's ex-AI VP, gives students step-by-step AI help for free
Jerome Pesenti's learning app walks students through problems instead of just giving answers; it had 20,000 downloads within weeks of its August 2023 launch.
Leer el casoSilo cut about 30% of staff after a loan default froze its lending, and reopened M&A talks
Food supply chain software maker Silo laid off roughly 30% of staff after a customer default paused its bank-backed lending product; M&A talks resumed.
Leer el casoSift, from ex-SpaceX engineers, raises $7.5M to sell hardware teams a telemetry stack
Two former SpaceX engineers bet hardware companies would buy a ready-made telemetry stack instead of stitching open-source tools together.
Leer el casoSiFive reportedly lays off over 100 staff and drops its predesigned RISC-V core line
At a $2.5B valuation, RISC-V chip designer SiFive reportedly cut over 20% of its workforce in October 2023 and stopped selling predesigned cores.
Leer el casoSekai raised a $20M Series A betting AI-built mini apps are the next consumer format
Sekai let users prompt-build and remix mini apps; its founder reports 15 million created and an hour a day of use, and it raised $20M.
Leer el casoSCI Semiconductor raises £5M to produce its memory-safe ICENI chips, with £2M in orders
The Sheffield startup builds security into chip architecture using CHERI, and says it has £2M of orders and £7.7M of government contracts.
Leer el casoScape turns a YC email-support tool into an AI inbox, raising $3.2M at 23
Two 23-year-old Swedes pivoted from email customer support to an AI-native inbox that drafts replies and attachments, backed by Y Combinator.
Leer el casoJournalists Yurieff and Enberg launched Scalable as a 50-50 venture with Whalar unit
Two creator-economy journalists went independent with Scalable, a newsletter and podcast funded by creator agency Whalar's The Lighthouse.
Leer el casoSAEKI exits stealth with $2.3M to rent out 3D-printing robot 'microfactories'
Swiss startup SAEKI sells time on self-contained robot cells that 3D print recyclable formwork and moulds, instead of selling multimillion-dollar machines.
Leer el casoRoofstock cuts 27% of staff, five months after 20%, a year after a $1.9B valuation
The single-family rental marketplace told staff in March 2023 it needed to right-size to cut cash burn and keep runway until the market turns.
Leer el casoRivet raises $10.5M seed for a dating app where other people recommend your matches
Founded by a former Tinder and Match Group executive, Rivet launched across the US with 'matchers' who score pairs, and who can join without dating.
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