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Small Business Health Insurance Gets an AI Broker
A New York startup called Corridor launched on September 21 with $25 million and a narrow promise: bring the caliber of small business health insurance guidance normally reserved for large...
Series A Funding: 5 Lessons From a Profitable Raise
London fintech Sprive closed a $10 million series A funding round on September 21, and the most useful number in that announcement is not the headline one. The company says...
ChatGPT Ads Open a New Front for Small Brands
Quartile said Monday it now holds technology partner status for ads running inside ChatGPT, which puts the placement within reach of brands through software they already log into. The firm...
Agentic Commerce Fight: Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse
Amazon confirmed Sunday night that it has shut Meta’s Muse assistant out of shopping on Amazon.com, twelve days after the agent launched. The company says it asked Meta to exclude...
Humanoid Robot Market Reality: 5 Lessons for Founders
Reuters obtained the first humanoid tally ever compiled by the International Federation of Robotics, and the 2025 total came to about 7,000 machines. That count covers factories and professional services....
Teofimo Lopez’s Rise: From A Brooklyn Kid to a Florida-Based Amateur Boxer to World Titles and Takeover Promotions
Photo Credit: Zach Hirsch and Teofimo Lopez From Brooklyn to South Florida Teofimo Lopez was born in Brooklyn, New York, but his boxing foundation was built after his family moved...
Flexible Warehouse Space: 5 Moves for Product Founders
WareSpace announced Thursday that it spent $36.5 million on two industrial buildings, one in Miami Gardens and one in South San Francisco, which it will chop into more than 210...
Alternative Business Lending Now Reads Your Whole Footprint
Byzfunder said Thursday it has put a new underwriting system into production called TraceDataIQ, trained on the performance history behind more than $2 billion lent to over 35,000 businesses since...
Small Business Trends Point to a Record Filing Wave
Americans filed 578,926 business applications in July, a seasonally adjusted count that sat 8.1% above the June total, according to Census Bureau figures compiled by Thimble and distributed Thursday through...
Asean public markets need better investability, access to attract Chinese investments: panellists
The bloc is financially diverse, with different currencies, regulations, infrastructure and stages of development[SINGAPORE] Asean public markets need to boost investability and improve access for foreign investors in order to...
China rare earth magnet exports to US drop before Xi-Trump meet
These components, used in everything from cars to consumer goods, give Beijing leverage in tradePublished Mon, Sep 21, 2026 · 09:17 AMCHINA’S exports of rare earth magnets to the US...
Tightening monetary policy by Fed a test for Singapore’s Reits, market revitalisation project
Coherent corporate strategies, disciplined execution and proactive investor engagement will become increasingly important[SINGAPORE] When the US Federal Reserve was hiking rates at a frenetic pace in 2022 in response to...