{"id":1018005,"date":"2026-07-01T08:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018005"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:01:31","slug":"indian-american-ai-founders-acquire-bengaluru-startup-finalrun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/indian-american-ai-founders-acquire-bengaluru-startup-finalrun-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American AI founders acquire Bengaluru startup FinalRun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based AI engineering startup FinalRun has now been acquired by US-based Noon. The AI-native product design platform from the US made a public announcement regarding the acquisition of the Indian startup, with its co-founders joining Noon as members of technical staff. Arnold Laishram and Ashish Yadav are said to split their focus between India and the US. <\/p>\n<p>Noon recently stepped into the limelight when, in April 2026, it secured a backing of $44 million in funding. It was considered to be the largest stealth round for a design-technology startup to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based AI engineering startup FinalRun has now been acquired by US-based Noon. The AI-native product design platform from the US made a public announcement regarding the acquisition of the Indian startup, with its co-founders joining Noon as members of technical staff. Arnold Laishram and Ashish Yadav are said to split their focus between India and the US. Noon recently stepped into the limelight when, in April 2026, it secured a backing of $44 million in funding. It was considered to be the largest stealth round for a design-technology startup to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018017,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018005\/revisions\/1018017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}