Telkom Indonesia weighs sale of venture arm MDI Ventures

Founded in 2015, MDI has backed more than 90 companies across 12 countries and has US$830 million in total committed assets under management.

Founded in 2015, MDI has backed more than 90 companies across 12 countries and has US$830 million in total committed assets under management.
Addis Ababa, July 25, 2026 (ENA) —Ethiopia is developing a skilled workforce in artificial intelligence (AI) to safeguard its national interest and prepare for the future, Deputy Prime Minister Temesgen Tiruneh said. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of AI startups trained over the past six months by the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, he noted that…
Om Malik arrived in New York City in 1993 with no job, no contacts, and a few freelance assignments. His full name was Om Prakash Malik, and he had spent the previous years writing about music and movies for Indian magazines — bylines that a young Sree Sreenivasan, then a Columbia journalism professor, had noticed…
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for July 22, 2026 featuring funding details for Epic Markets, Lithos Computer Co., and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Epic Markets – $10M FINTECH Epic Markets, a multi-asset brokerage platform that delivers institutional-grade…
The agency’s chairman says this is “not an AI-driven downsizing exercise” but a change in operating model.
Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per one million input tokens and…
Jul 12, 2026 Quaise Energy has completed the first close of its Series B financing round, securing $134 million to speed up the development of its superhot geothermal technology and Project Obsidian, which is described as the world’s first commercial superhot geothermal power plant. According to a report from TradeArabia News Service, the funding round…