The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops August 27

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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming
Google’s former security leads raise $13M to fight email threats before they reach you
Tinder evolves some features into dating ‘modes’
Ex-Google X trio wants their AI to be your second brain — and they just raised $6M to make it happen
Uber will add Blade’s helicopters to its platform as early as 2026
Snap breaks into ‘startup squads’ as ad revenue stalls
Nepal reverses social media ban as protests turn deadly
ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe
OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring
Blackrock-backed Minute Media acquires Indian AI startup that extracts sports highlights