The Guy That Gave Us VLC Is Building A Robot Startup
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the French developer best known as the lead developer of VLC Media Player, which has more than 6 billion downloads worldwide, has raised…
Inside the $7.1 Billion Race to Build the World’s First Fusion Power Plant
Fusion power has shifted from a decades-away punchline to a technology drawing serious investor capital, with private fusion startups collectively raising $7.1 billion to date.…
SpaceX’s Cursor Acquisition Makes Karachi’s Sualeh Asif an Overnight Billionaire
Sualeh Asif, a Pakistani-born co-founder of the AI coding platform Cursor, is set to become a billionaire after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the…
Startup Co-Founded by Pakistani Entrepreneur Lands $62.5 Million Funding
A startup with Pakistani roots has secured major new funding as global investors continue to back tools shaping the future of customer communication. Respond.io, co-founded…
How This Startup Wants to Replace HR Departments in Corporate Offices
Bengaluru-based startup Hunar.AI is building conversational AI agents that automate frontline workforce management across India’s labour-heavy sectors, addressing a segment of the AI economy that…
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…