🛕 Digital devotion: Religion is huge in India, with 53 temples for every 100,000 people. AppsForBharat, an Indian startup behind devotional app Sri Mandir, is capitalizing on that religious fervor, and it just raised a fresh $20 million only nine months after raising $18 million. Read More
🚘 Delivery in 30 min or less: Tesla is all about pulling marketing stunts, often right before releasing delivery figures or earnings. A few days after launching its limited Austin robotaxi service, Tesla has now delivered a Model Y SUV to a customer autonomously, letting the vehicle drive itself about 15 miles from Tesla's factory. Read More
🤝 Quite the turnaround: Bolt is working on its comeback. The fintech has partnered with Klarna to integrate the latter's payment into its checkout operating system. In other words, Bolt devices will now show Klarna's BNPL offering. Read More
💰 From Workday to Series B: The founders of Levelpath found their own path while working at Workday, where they spotted the challenges that pushed them to build mobile-first, user-friendly procurement software platforms. The startup just closed a $55 million Series B led by Battery Ventures. Read More
🤓 Superintelligent: Meta has poached a number of engineers from top AI firms like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. All of them – plus Meta's entire existing AI team – will be working in its new Superintelligence Labs, co-led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Read More