start-up
noun
variants
or startup
often attributive
1
: the act or an instance of setting in operation or motion
2
: a fledgling business enterprise
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Deals include taking control of chip firms Arm, Graphcore, and Ampere Computing, as well as self-driving car start-up Wayve, $2 billion into Intel, plus some $40 billion into ChatGPT creator OpenAI—with reports of an additional $30 billion for the latter in the pipeline.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
At the Creaempresa 2026 stop, the Tour del Talento named biotechnologist and entrepreneur Patricia Aymà Maldonado as this year’s laureate for her work leading Benviro, a start-up that uses bacteria to transform organic waste into biodegradable bioplastics at industrial scale.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
Now Natalia wants revenge and agrees to finance Michael (Mike Colter) and Olivia’s (Rachel Keller) start-up law firm in order to go after his and other AI businesses.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2026
Yasmin Kara-Hanani and Henry Muck are out of their depth in the flashy offices of Tender, a start-up led by the smooth-talking, unreadable Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella).
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 Feb. 2026
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
At the Creaempresa 2026 stop, the Tour del Talento named biotechnologist and entrepreneur Patricia Aymà Maldonado as this year’s laureate for her work leading Benviro, a start-up that uses bacteria to transform organic waste into biodegradable bioplastics at industrial scale.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
Now Natalia wants revenge and agrees to finance Michael (Mike Colter) and Olivia’s (Rachel Keller) start-up law firm in order to go after his and other AI businesses.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2026
Yasmin Kara-Hanani and Henry Muck are out of their depth in the flashy offices of Tender, a start-up led by the smooth-talking, unreadable Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella).
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 Feb. 2026
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“Start-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/start-up. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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