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start-up



VERB
initiate activity
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He previously served as chief executive at the tech start-up Character.AI, which developed a chatbot platform.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

New research suggests how sensitive investors in start-up companies are to changes in tax policy, and what this means for the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Guest: Paul Ford, co-founder of the AI start-up Aboard, technology writer.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

One of those is Powall, a start-up in the Dutch city of Delft that is developing commercial-scale equipment for nanocoating the powders that are the raw materials of today's batteries.

From BBC Sep. 10, 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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