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With women-led start-ups securing just 2.3% of 2024 VC funds, Cristina Fonseca says closing tech's gender gap is vital for growth.

Carta acquires ListAlpha and launches Carta CRM, unifying front-office relationship tools with back-office fund data for private capital firms.

UpGuard debuts Risk Automations to link cyber risk findings with security workflows, promising faster fixes after USD $75 million raise.

In tech and marketing, women are excluded not just by bias in code or funding, but by domestic load and male-coded networking rituals.

Irish-founded Nory opens a New York HQ to spearhead a US rollout of its AI platform aimed at cutting costs for pressured restaurants.

As AI reshapes tech, women still battle entrenched bias; only a deliberately human lens can turn this revolution into real inclusion.

Generative AI is levelling the creative-tech field, giving women a rare chance to shape rules, narratives and power from the ground up.

Australian construction tech startup Veyor raises AUD $11m Series A to fuel rapid US expansion as American revenues surge past 30%.

Rainforest adds PayPal, Venmo and PayPal Pay Later to its unified checkout for vertical software, aiming to shift users from cash and cheques.

Open-source lab Sentient has launched Arena, a vendor-agnostic sandbox to stress-test autonomous AI agents in complex, capital-sensitive tasks.

UK listeners are quicker than Americans to spot AI-generated voices, and their trust in what they hear plunges once they detect them.

Moderne unveils Bauhaus, a selective programme backing startups building lifecycle infrastructure for an agent-driven dev future.

Maisa's auditable AI “digital workers” drive 400% annual growth and fivefold client surge as enterprises demand accountable automation.

Komodor triples ARR and doubles Fortune 500 reach as AI-fuelled SRE, automation and cloud cost pressure reshape reliability operations.

UpGuard secures USD $75m Series C to scale its AI cyber risk platform, fuelling product development, global expansion and acquisitions.

On-demand laundry platform Laundryheap has expanded into Colombia, Mexico, Malaysia and Scotland, as it accelerates its global rollout.

Telgea raises USD $5m led by Telenor to scale its unified global mobile platform for operators and multinational enterprise customers.

Wootzwork secures USD $6.6m Series A to scale its AI-driven manufacturing coordination model across global industrial supply chains.

Aurora Tech names 10 women-led startups from emerging markets as finalists for non-dilutive funding and investor access in Santiago.

Potpie AI secures USD $2.2m pre-seed to build an ontology-first context layer helping AI agents navigate massive enterprise codebases.