Founded by upGrad co-founder Mayank Kumar, BorderPlus trains and places blue-collar and healthcare workers abroad. Women make up 70–75% of its candidates, and Germany accounts for most of its revenue.
Sibling-founded Circuit Breaker Labs, led by CEO Shirali Nigam, uses AI agents that mimic users of different ages, languages and cultures to test whether chatbots can detect psychologically harmful conversations. It is a TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 finalist.
The Standard Chartered Foundation has named five women-led ventures, spanning telepharmacy, accessibility tech, SME trade, event planning and children's coding, as winners of its Women in Tech Accelerator in Nigeria, each receiving $10,000.
BAG Ventures, co-founded by former Google vice president Bonita Stewart and former CapitalG partner Jackson Georges Jr., has closed an $11.3 million debut fund for early-stage enterprise AI startups, backed by more than 150 limited partners including Google.
New York startup Origin Genomics, led by founder and CEO Cathy Tie, is testing AI-designed gene editors on cells carrying disease-causing mutations, with the long-term aim of correcting them in human embryos. The work is legal as research but US law bars editing embryos for reproduction.
Hatch Blue and Conservation International Ventures have opened applications for the 2027 Women in Ocean Food Innovation Studio in Latin America and the Caribbean. Companies led by alumni of its first three regional cohorts have raised $11.7 million.
Profitable agentic AI platform Kapture CX has appointed Kruti Khandelwal as Vice President–Marketing to lead brand, content, product marketing, PR and demand generation as the company expands in India and international markets.
Mona, co-founded by Andrew Leon Hanna and Anny Dow, has raised an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed round led by Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, with Eric Schmidt among its angels, to scale AI-powered financing and coaching for small businesses.
Born out of an eviction in Chennai, Sollisai Sistahs has become one of the most distinctive voices in Tamil hip-hop, fusing parai drums with street rap to confront caste, patriarchy, menstrual taboos and the climate crisis.
Fidelitus GCC Nexus has appointed Dr Ankita Gupta as Chief Business Officer. With more than 18 years of experience across four global markets, she will work with companies in Europe, Germany and the Nordics to set up and scale Global Capability Centres in India.