Startups
India’s startup landscape is entering a new chapter — one defined by scale, structure, and self-sustaining innovation. On 29 October 2025, the ET Soonicorns Summit 2025 Sundowner will take place in Mumbai, unveiling the Maharashtra Startup Report, a comprehensive look at how the state’s emerging ventures — often called “minicorns”
Startups
Founded in London in 2018 by James Dacombe (who left school at 16) and co-founded by Christina Franzeskides, CoMind is taking on one of healthcare’s toughest frontiers: monitoring the brain at the bedside without drilling into the skull. Financial Times 🧪 What They’re Building CoMind’s flagship platform, called
Startups
Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous-vehicle company, announced plans to launch driverless taxi services in London by 2026, marking its first major European deployment and a key step in the UK’s automated-mobility push. What’s going on Waymo’s expansion follows the UK government’s Automated Vehicles Act, which gives a
AI
Say goodbye (maybe) to manual ad-campaign set-ups — this week AdsGency, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023, secured $12 million in seed funding (bringing its total funding to ~$15 million) to build what it calls an agentic AI platform that automates advertising across platforms like Google, TikTok, Reddit and Pinterest.