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start-up



VERB
initiate activity
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Formed in 2021 through a merger between Honeywell Quantum Solutions and a U.K.-based start-up, Quantinuum has built a roster of collaborators across the energy, aerospace, and finance sectors.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

The start-up has been founded by friends Ritu Kandari Srivastava and Kanishka Malhotra - both mums of toddlers.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

That's exactly what a new start-up is offering shoppers in a busy market in the Indian capital, Delhi.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Sharpa is an AI start-up developing hands that have humanlike dexterity.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

It was something like a start-up inside a start-up, and in a field in which I had no professional experience to speak of.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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