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Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’; plus, Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica
Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls; plus, the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation; plus, Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids
Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ an AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise, plus, Oratomic to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round; plus, popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M
Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine; plus, Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
Bidbus pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car; Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups; plus, Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage; plus, Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip; plus, Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
Corgi says it didn’t steal an open source product; plus, Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; Aseon Labs wants to fix that; plus, General Intuition bets that video games can train AI agents for the real world
Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950; also, Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII
Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names; plus, General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Startup Foundation Alloy developed a new alloying technique; plus, Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world; plus, Theker building a factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source; Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their businessplus,
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in; plus, Zest launches a restaurant discovery app
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station; plus, so long FAANG and hello to MANGOS
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
Brynn Putnam's Board raised $20M; plus, ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves
Pacific Fusion’s latest prototype packs 440 gigawatts into an 80-nanosecond burst; plus, Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
Snap alums unveil Ghost Angels fund; Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory; plus, Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
Corgi doubled in value in 3 weeks; plus, Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
SOND, a sleep tech startup, exits stealth with $7M; plus, Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M
Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation; OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app; also, Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled ARR
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century
Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering; plus, Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation
Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind; plus, NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer
Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment; plus, Stilta helps companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses; plus, Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware; plus, Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby; plus, Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante; plus, Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen
Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO; plus, Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build rockets for space data centers; plus what will the whisper-filled office of the future sound like
A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom; plus, Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack
Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding; plus, Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences
OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO; plus, Katie Haun raises $1 billion for new venture funds
Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity; Meta buys robotics startup
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter; also, Shapes brings humans and AI into the same group chats
Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field; plus, BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund
BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage
Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools; Also, another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident
Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI; Esther and Anne Wojcicki join new healthcare accelerator
SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people; AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed
SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news; plus, Loop wants to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions
Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO; plus, a simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation
OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
Slate Auto raises $650M to fund its affordable EV truck plans
Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine; plus, Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech
TC's Julie Bort can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee; plus, Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award
AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost; plus, Hermeus raises $350M to build unmanned hypersonic fighters
Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI
Peter Thiel’s big bet on solar-powered cow collars; plus, Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M dea
Beehiiv expands into podcasting; also, Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II
Commonwealth Fusion Systems leans on magnets for near-term revenue; plus the company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger
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ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand; Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales
Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation; plus, Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation
Conntour raises $7M to build an AI search engine for security video systems; plus, Lucid Bots raises $20M for its window-washing drones
Seattle's Brinc just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters; Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem
Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way; plus, Flighty gives you real-time alerts about airport disturbances
Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI; plus, the SEC dropped its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future
AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good; plus, Delve accused of misleading customers
Geothermal startup Fervo catapults itself over the ‘valley of death’; K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute
Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators
H&M wants to make clothing from CO2 using this startup’s tech; plus, Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs
Fuse wants to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by US credit unions; plus, Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B
The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)
A Chinese Brain-Computer Interface startup raised $21M just two months after launch; plus, Gumloop turns every employee into an AI agent builder
Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots
Canopii looks to succeed where past indoor farms have not; plus, Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legal tech boom endures
Robinhood’s startup fund stumbled in NYSE debut, plus, AI network startup Eridu emerged from stealth, and ModRetro seeking funding at $1B valuation
Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes; plus, Lio raised $30M from A16Z and others to automate enterprise procurement
Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market
Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation; plus, three companies dominated the $189 billion in VC investments last month
Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices?
Fig Security emerges from stealth with $38M to help security teams deal with change; plus, Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in ARR
MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens
Parade’s Cami Tellez announces new creator economy marketing platform, $4M in funding
Hardware Why China’s humanoid robot industry is winning the early market
Deepinder Goyal returns with a $54M brain-monitoring bet; plus, Ultrahuman bets on redesigned smart ring to win back U.S. market
Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers; plus,
Jest is challenging the app store status quo; plus, Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE
Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M; plus, AI chip startup MatX raised $500M
Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing; plus, Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow
Ukraine’s startups keep building
Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to
Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers; plus. Ali Partovi’s Neo looks to upend the accelerator model
Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India’s AI startup ecosystem; plus, General Catalyst commits $5B to India
A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app
Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory; plus, Mirai developing a framework for models to perform better on devices
Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers; plus, World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk
SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending; Mistral AI buys Koyeb; and Thrive raises $10B for new fund, its largest yet
African defensetech Terra Industries, founded by two Gen Zers, raises additional $22M in a month
Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline
Eclipse backs all-EV marketplace Ever in $31M funding round
Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back
Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot; plus, AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
Complyance raises $20M to help companies manage risk and compliance; plus, Integrate raises $17M to move defense project management
Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation
Proptech startup Smart Bricks raises $5 million pre-seed led by a16z
Hauler Hero collects $16M for its AI waste management software
Anthropic closes in on $20B round; plus, Harvey reportedly raising at $11B valuation just months after it hit $8B
Gather AI, maker of ‘curious’ warehouse drones, lands $40M led by Keith Block’s firm
Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools
Fundamental raises a Series A with a new take on big data analysis; plus, Stripe alumni raised a Series A for Duna
Peak XV says internal disagreement led to partner exits as it doubles down on AI
Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips; plus, Apeiron Labs gets $29M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots
Gradient’s heat pumps get new smarts to enable old-building retrofits
Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps
Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants
Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelator for students nationwide
HomeBoost’s app will show you where to save on your utility bills; plus, Waymo reportedly raising a $16B funding round
Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building ‘runtime’ cloud security; plus, AI security startup Outtake raises $40M
Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI; plus, Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building ‘runtime’ cloud security
Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama
Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm resumes IPO plans; plus, Fashion rental app By Rotation partners with Uber
Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’; plus, Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use
Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract; plus, AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation
AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’
How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries
This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027
OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars; plus, Anduril expanding to Long Beach
Struggling fusion power company General Fusion to go public via $1B reverse merger
From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing
Language learning marketplace Preply’s unicorn status embodies Ukrainian resilience
PraxisPro raises $6M seed from AlleyCorp to coach medical sales reps
Retail startup Another raises a $2.5M seed to help sell excess inventory
Humans&, a ‘human-centric’ AI startup, raised $480M seed round; plus, Grubhub parent acquires restaurant rewards startup Claim
AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post
AI video startup, Higgsfield, founded by ex-Snap exec, lands $1.3B valuation; plus, Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp
India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace
How one startup is using prebiotics to try and ease the copper shortage
Parloa triples its valuation in 8 months; plus, robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation
Bandcamp bans AI generated music, plus Bill Gates-backed Type One Energy raises $87M ahead of $250M Series B
SkyFi raises $12.7M to turn satellite images into insights; plus, OpenAI buying health records startup Torch
Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz
These Gen Zers just raised $11.75M to put Africa’s defense back in the hands of Africans
How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data
Wing to expand drone delivery to another 150 Walmart stores
Former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla’s startup triples to $100M valuation
EverNitro is simplifying the process of crafting silky nitro coffee at CES 2026
OpenAI acquiring the team behind Convogo; also, Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation 6 months
Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back
How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge
LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product; plus, Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation
How World Cup champion Mario Götze built a parallel career as an angel investor
Teradar reveals its first terahertz-band vision sensor for cars
Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors
‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential
How to make your startup stand out in a crowded market, according to investors
Investors share what to remember while raising a Series A
How Mill closed the deal with Amazon and Whole Foods
Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’
How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems; plus, Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs
How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit; plus Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you
The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation; also, Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
As EU waters down 2035 EV goals, electric startups express concern
Yann LeCun confirms his new ‘world model’ startup, reportedly seeks $5B+ valuation
OpenAI is reportedly trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation; also, Krafton hikes India bet with new $670M fund
Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation
Weeks after raising $100M, investors pump another $180M into hot Indian startup MoEngage
Radiant Nuclear raises $300M for its semi-sized 1 MW reactor
Nuclear startup Last Energy raises $100M for its steel-encased micro reactor
VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power; plus, Whole Foods to install smart food waste bins from Mill
Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem; First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion that helps you build habits
Thea Energy previews Helios, its pixel-inspired fusion power plant
Eclipse Energy’s microbes can turn idle oil wells into hydrogen factories; plus, India’s Spinny lines up funding to acquire GoMechanic
Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI’s ‘after-code’ gap
Interest in Spoor’s bird-monitoring AI software is soaring
On Me raises $6M to shake up the gift card industry; plus, Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage
AI startup Tavus founder says users talk to its AI Santa ‘for hours’ per day; Oboe raises $16 million from a16z for its AI-powered course generation platform
Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers
Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps; Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes
Tiger Global plans cautious venture future with a new $2.2B fund; plus, SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund SkildAI at $14B, nearly tripling its value
Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales ; plus, OpenAI says it’s turned off app suggestions that look like ads
Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless; and Is it time to ‘refound’ your startup?
New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings
Nexus isn’t going all in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups; plus, Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups
VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy
Microreactor startup Antares raises $96M for land, sea, and space-based nuclear power; plus Kalshi raises $1B at $11B valuation
Titan OS raises $58 million from Highland Europe for its smart TV OS; also, Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed
Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation; plus, OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
How AI PR startup Clipbook won Mark Cuban’s investment from a cold email
Are you balding? There’s an AI for that; plus, JustiGuide wants to use AI to help people navigate the US immigration system
Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India’s next AI breakouts
Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths; plus Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites
X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D
This startup wants to build a fusion reactor — on a boat; plus, Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing
Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years; also, Phictly’s new app brings people together over their favorite books and TV shows
The European startup market is ready for the limelight
Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round ; plus, this startup can track objects within 3 cm
After SEC investigation, Curastory founder resigns, hires replacement
Cavela lands $6.6M to help brands beat pre-tariff manufacturing costs; plus Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation
Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easier
Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into bookable itineraries
Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt as consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT
Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework; plus Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan
Is Jeff Bezos returning to the trenches with a new AI startup? Also, Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics
Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI
Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks
VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups
AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia
Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar
How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start
6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind
Knicks player Miles McBride launches Mmotion, a location-sharing friendship app, also, Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off
How startups can lure good talent fairly without big tech bank accounts
How one founder plans to save cities from flooding with terraforming robots; plus Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund
Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of stealth; plus, Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models
Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’
This startup’s metal stacks could help solve AI’s massive heat problem
Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion
Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners and which are still wide open; also, Locket’s social app is picking up steam with Gen Alpha
a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff
Pine Labs aims to take Indian fintech global even as it cuts valuation for IPO
Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue; plus, Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta
YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot; also, Cluely’s Roy Lee on the ragebait strategy for startup marketing
Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion; plus, IntrCity SmartBus lands $30M to deepen its grip on India’s intercity travel market
The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in ChatGPT and other AI apps, plus India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months
Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping, plus, Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistant
AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs; also, Mem0 raises $24M to build the memory layer for AI apps
Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible
Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C
India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest
Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen
Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood
Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race
Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs
a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager
Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA
Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature
A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you
General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips, also, Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO
Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices; also, Eightfold raised $35M for an AI digital twin startup
Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense
FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster
Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to build and update websites, and Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab
India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries
Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8B; also,
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production; and Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams
Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere
Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for GM, Ford, and lots of startups
One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built
Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse; also, ÄIO invented a method to make edible fat from ag waste like sawdust
A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his AI memory startup, Supermemory
Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund
Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos; plus, If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs
A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes; also, New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million
How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance
Kevin Hart’s VC firm led $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple, also, Electroflow promises to make LFP material for 40% less than Chinese producers
Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool
Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science, plus, Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist
CommanderAI building Salesforce for the waste management industry, also, a year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B
Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks; also, AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews
The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel; plus, ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common ground
Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup, raised huge $21M seed; former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance
Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix food supply chains, also Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries
Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar
Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand; plus Y Combinator's ‘Early Decision’ is for students who want to graduate first, build later
Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD; plus, Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business
Telo raises $20 million to build tiny electric trucks for cities; also, Sila opens U.S. factory to make silicon anodes for energy dense EV batteries
Tim Chen has quietly become of one the most sought-after solo investors; and AI company Superpanel raises $5.3M seed to automate legal intake
Bluesky says it’s getting more aggressive about moderation and enforcement, also, Oura ring maker raising $875M Series E
Nvidia eyes $500M investment into self-driving tech startup Wayve, also, UK fintech Tide becomes a TPG-backed unicorn
Indian fintech Jar turns profitable by enabling millions to save in gold
How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business, also, Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI
Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built
Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round; also, Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s “warehouse work” with embodied-AI robots
Same-day delivery comes to space, as Impulse promises satellite transport in hours, not months, and more
MicroFactory built a tabletop manufacturing kit the size of a s dog crate; also, Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global
Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors
Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse ... and OpenAI's board chair says we’re in an AI bubble (but that’s okay)
Hike, once a unicorn, shuts down as India cracks down on real-money gaming
We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI
The music industry is broken: OpenWav’s new app aims to change that
While US stalls, Australia and Anduril move to put XL undersea vehicle into service, plus Perplexity reportedly raised $200M
Arc gets its first major order for electric tugboats worth $160M, also Klarna’s IPO pops, raising $1.4B
AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness, plus another app just raised $14M to take on the loneliness epidemic
Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market, also Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue
Nuclearn gets $10.5M to help the nuclear industry embrace AI, plus ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe
Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC, Space DOTS raises $1.5M, and Cognition AI defied turbulence with a $400M raise at $10.2B valuation
Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps
Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries and more tech news
AI logistics startup Augment raised massive $85M Series A; plus Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg
Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M; also, Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry
Orchard Robotics raises $22M for farm vision AI; also, Mistral on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation
Advanced geothermal startups are getting warmed up and Fizz expands into grocery delivery
Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183 billion valuation, also OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig
Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B, also India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage
Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone
Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora
Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI’s 95% failure rate
No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation, also US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up
How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change, also, Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls
Terraton wants to be the McDonald’s of biochar, also Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing
Robomart unveils new delivery robot to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats, also
Eyebot gets $20M Series A to boost to expand eye care access and more tech news
FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains and Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth
As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug
YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’
Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.
Group14 lands $463M to make silicon anodes for EVs, also, SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents
New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains, plus Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment
Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages
AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still looking to hire agents as employees, also, Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market
Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech
Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats
Les Amis, the app helping women form friendships, launches in New York ... and more
Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute
Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever ... and more news
Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up ... and more
Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer ... and more
Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO
Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink
Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint
TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global
Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator
Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy
AI agents aren’t the ‘new Google,’ says Airbnb CEO
The high costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups
AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click, also OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war
Billing platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’
Photo-sharing app Locket is banking on a new celebrity-focused feature to fuel its growth plus Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web
For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS and ElevenLabs launched an AI music generator
Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation and Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release
OpenMind wants to be the Android operating system of humanoid robots
Germ brings end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky
Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India
Anthropic cut off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models, also PlayerZero raised $15M and Figma’s stock soared in its IPO
Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments
Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M
AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US
How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup
Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula
This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention
Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead
This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired
How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store ... and Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI
Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.
Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more
SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI
Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel
Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone
Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup
This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents
Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot
The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions
After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering
Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M
Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown
Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track
AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI
Rainmaker partners with Atmo to squeeze more rain from clouds
Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence
Firefly Space files for an IPO
A cloud seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods
RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology
Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals
Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’ ... and more
Knox lands $6.5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market
Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more
European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones
LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say
Why this LA-based VC firm was an early investor in Slate Auto
UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe
Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank
Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuation
Former SpaceX manager alleges harassment, retaliation, and security violations in lawsuit
Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gravity production
Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in
Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots
Sri Mandir keeps investors hooked as digital devotion grows
Tailor, a ‘headless’ ERP startup, raises $22M Series A
Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents
Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
PetLibro’s new smart camera uses AI to describe your pet’s movements, and it’s adorable
This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really
Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars
India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation
Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app
Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers
AllSpice’s platform is the GitHub for electrical engineering teams
Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers
VanMoof is back with a new custom e-bike and rebooted repair network
Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate
Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating for its female user base
Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion
Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy
After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns
Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup
Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora
Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors
Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs
Zevo’s EV-only car-share fleet is helping Tesla owners make money
Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools
Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient
Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup
Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG
Mitra Chem is raising $50M for its cheaper, domestic battery materials
XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs and other socially taboo products
Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers
Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment
Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z
Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year’
Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI
Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B
NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’
Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X
Grocery platform Misfits Market acquires The Rounds to further its mission of reducing food waste
Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024
Context gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suite
Rillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AI
A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding
Litehaus raises €1.46M pre-seed to build home-building platform
Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8 billion
Rocket Lab backer Outset raises $25M to fund New Zealand’s deep tech moonshots
RevenueCat raises $50M as it expands beyond mobile app monetization
The wild story of how gut health AI toilet startup Throne raised $4M led by Moxxie
A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model
Hinge Health pops 17%, but joins growing ranks of down round IPOs
Alt Carbon scores $12M seed to scale carbon removal in India
Field raises $17M to automate the drudgery of tax prep
Brex partners with former competitor Zip, with an eye on reducing cash burn to get to an IPO
Sylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and service used cars in Egypt
Gravitee, a platform that helps companies manage APIs, raises $60M
Adaptation Ventures is a new angel investor group focused on disability and accessibility tech
AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Acorns acquires family wealth and digital memory platform EarlyBird
Bain bets on Indian domestic work startup Pronto even as rivals face criticism
AI note-taking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features
Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins
Anthropic, Google score win by nabbing OpenAI-backed Harvey as a user
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
Improvements in ‘reasoning’ AI models may slow down soon, analysis finds
AllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routes
This American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusual
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers
Clay authorizes employee tender at a $1.5B valuation led by Sequoia
Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app
Breathe lands $21M Series B to predict battery performance
Ox Security lands a fresh $60M to scan for vulnerabilities in code
Agree.com raises $7.2M to take on Docusign, Bill.com with AI
Relevance AI raises $24M to help businesses build AI agents
Social Agent’s new app lets you book a photographer within 30 minutes
Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI
Ara Partners new $800M fund will decarbonize old industrial assets
Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device ... and more
AI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 months
Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device
Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M
Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely
Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups
Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere
Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps
From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off
RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries
Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla
Datadog acquires AI-powered observability startup Metaplane
Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup
British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries
Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93M
Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets
Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise
Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI
Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear
Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere
OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
Deck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AI
Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands
Former Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solution
OpenAI says it may ‘adjust’ its safety requirements if a rival lab releases ‘high-risk’ AI
Marshmallow, the UK insurance startup for migrants, raises $90M at a $2B+ valuation
Fusion power has a fuel problem; Hexium has a laser-powered solution
Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table
Conifer locks down $20M seed round for its ‘drop-in’ electric hub motor
Why Nest co-founder Matt Rogers is still bullish on HVAC
Parallel Systems is building autonomous electric rail for short-distance freight
Drafted uses AI and video resumes to help early-career professionals land jobs
Nuro’s $106M raise backs its shift from delivery robots to licensing autonomy tech
Tessell snags $60M to drive data management at scale
Solve Intelligence raises fresh $12M to bring AI to IP, patent workflows
Sizl raises $3.5M to expand its cook-to-order food delivery service
XL Batteries is using petrochemical infrastructure to store solar and wind power
SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: ‘How can we get you back?’
SignalFire raises over $1B as LPs embrace data-driven investing
OpenAI just made its first cybersecurity investment
Thatch raises $40M to give employees more control of their health care choices
Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026
Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud
The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie
Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp
Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology
Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model
Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service
Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup purchase
Temporal lands $146 million at a flat valuation, eyes agentic AI expansion
Why HoneyBook’s $140M in ARR may finally justify its $2.4B ZIRP-era valuation
Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice retrieval agent for Qonto customers
Has GetReal cracked the code on AI deepfakes? $18M and an impressive client list says yes
OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns
Outreach founder Manny Medina has a new startup that helps AI agents get paid
Plural’s platform allows enterprises to manage their Kubernetes clusters in one place
Pruna AI open sources its AI model optimization framework
AI creation platform Arcade expands from jewelry to home goods
Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage
Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management
1X will test humanoid robots in ‘a few hundred’ homes in 2025
Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech
ClearGrid, armed with a fresh $10M, is developing AI to improve debt collection in MENA
Amid calls for sovereign EU tech stack, Evroc raises $55M to build a hyperscale cloud in Europe
Factorial snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost its HR sales and marketing
Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
Rippling sues Deel, Deel denies ‘all legal wrongdoing’, and Slack is the main witness
Flexport accuses former employees of stealing its source code to create a rival startup
Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers
Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works
Bria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed data
Kerry Washington invests in wedding marketplace Cheersy
Omni raises $69M to design tools that help companies better analyze their data
Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation
How La Fourche, an online organic supermarket, is thriving after q-commerce’s busted flush
Scimplify raises $40M to help manufacturers access specialty chemicals
Startup studio Hexa acquires majority stake in Veevart, a vertical SaaS platform for museums
General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
Radiology AI software provider Gleamer expands into MRI with two small acquisitions
Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently
Intangible AI, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M
CollX raises $10M to grow its card collection marketplace
Alpine Eagle secures funding from European backers for counter-drone tech amid rising threats
Turing raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation
Ahead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 million
From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste
Moonwatt secures $8.3M to dial up solar’s staying power with sodium-ion storage
Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, lands US Army contract, builds weapons factory
Flora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionals
Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security
Just Move In raises $8M Series A for its home setup service
Workhelix taps years of research to help enterprises figure out where to apply AI
Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model
Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery
Bridgetown Research raises $19M to speed up due diligence with AI
Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training
Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business
Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI
Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform
AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say
Arize AI hopes it has first-mover advantage in AI observability
Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas
Spore.Bio raises $23M to apply machine learning to microbiology testing
IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back
Hyperlume wants to make chip-to-chip communication faster and more efficient
Augury raises $73M on a $1B+ valuation for AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines
Level Zero Health banks $6.9M to prove wearable medtech can take the strain out of hormone testing
Legal tech startup Luminance, backed by the late Mike Lynch, raises $75M
Germany’s Helsing doubles down on drones for Ukraine, scales up manufacturing
Mistral releases regional model focused on Arabic language and culture
Tofu is building an omni-channel marketing platform for enterprises
Phase raises $13M to speed up the UX design process with its no-code platform
Apptronik, which makes humanoid robots, raises $350M as category heats up
Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City
No-code app builder Softr expands beyond Airtable databases
SpotDraft taps AI to help streamline contract management
Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests
Voyantis aims to help companies figure out their customers’ worth
Archer Aviation doubles down on defense aircraft with fresh $300M
3D mood board and marketplace Mattoboard picks up $2M to launch AI visual search
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development
Hiveclass, a platform for virtual PE classes for kids, raises $1.5M
Fizz brings on TikTok alum to help build out its marketplace and recommendation engine
Pendulum’s AI-driven platform helps enterprises better predict supply and demand
European AI startups have raised $8 billion in 2024
Neuralk-AI is developing AI models specifically designed for structured data
Archive raises $30M to solve fashion’s pollution problem and Sotira landed $2M to help brands offload and monetize their surplus inventory
Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale
AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?
Riot raises $30 million for its cybersecurity product suite focused on employees
Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention
Backed by Mayo Clinic, Nutrix’s hardware monitors worker stress
European embedded banking startup Swan adds another $44 million to its Series B
Data analytics startup Athenic AI wants to be an enterprise’s central nervous system
Naboo secures $21M for its concierge-style corporate event booking platform
This Bay Area startup is using AI to help families navigate long-term care planning
TravelPerk raises $200M as valuation nearly doubles to $2.7B
Alice&Bob raises $104M, says quantum computers based on cat qubits will be ready by 2030
Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy
Mistral’s origin story has an insuretech founder at its heart
Fundraise Up claims its AI can boost nonprofit donations
Allara lands $26M to expand women’s hormone telehealth
Some shareholders of a16z-backed Divvy Homes may not see a dime from $1B sale
Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuation
Sales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memes
Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform
US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation
At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel, plus Anthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for Claude and IMDb's founder steps down
Teal Health raises $10M to create at-home cervical cancer screenings
Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol
Dub.co is an open-source URL shortener and link attribution engine packed into one
Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best
Hyperline secures $10 million for its automated billing platform
Nvidia backs MetAI, a Taiwanese startup that creates AI-powered digital twins
EV startup Harbinger’s obsession with simplicity fuels $100M Series B and eBay acquires Caramel
Nelly raises $51 million to digitalize medical practices across Europe; Float Financial lands US$48.5M Series B
AWS pledges to spend $5B in Mexico, launches new Mexico server region
Venture funding remains stable in France thanks to AI startups
Raspberry AI raises $24M from a16z to accelerate fashion design
Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure
Gumloop, founded in a bedroom in Vancouver, lets users automate tasks with drag-and-drop modules
Grand Games, the Turkish startup behind Magic Sort, drinks up $30M
Overhaul raises another $55M to help companies like Dyson and Microsoft fight supply chain theft
PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout
Xocean raises $119M to capture ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels
CES 2025: Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’
Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants
RoboForce raises $10 million to create a robot workforce
Bluesky bump from X exodus is slowing down, data shows
CES 2025: Soliddd Vision Glasses for those with macular degeneration and Elvie's Smart Bouncer
Hydrogen tax credit rules give startups clarity while boosting nuclear and carbon capture
Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen
2025 will be the year climate tech learns to love AI
After ups and down, food delivery startup Epicery closes shop
Calo raises $25 million to expand its ready-to-eat meal service beyond the Middle East
Backed by a16z and QED, Brazilian startup Carecode puts AI agents to work on healthcare
The trends that shaped EVs, robotaxis, and electric flight in 2024
AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed
British university spinoff Mindgard protects companies from AI threats
Access bets people will pay thousands of dollars a year for guaranteed restaurant reservations
Hauler Hero wants to bring waste management software into the 21st century
Sustainable Ocean Alliance marks 10 years with ocean-friendly startup label and a new batch of ‘ecopreneurs’
Slip Robotics snags $28M for its bots that can load a truck in five minutes
Grammarly acquires productivity startup Coda, brings on new CEO
Focused Energy buys two of the world’s most powerful lasers for its fusion quest
Prequel is building a community-driven approach to finding software bugs
Revisiting 19th-century Paris with VR
Flare raises $30M to thwart info-stealers like those used on Snowflake customers
As AI-fueled disinformation explodes, here comes the startup counterattack
Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders
Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos
Upvest, a stock trading API used by N26, Revolut and others, raises $105 million
Albert Invent hopes to revolutionize the chemicals sector with its AI platform
Mynt raises a cool $23M on a $210M valuation to build a smarter expense card for SMEs
Software testing platform LambdaTest secures $38 million for AI push
Nexalus has a new method for liquid-cooling data centers that could make the waste heat useful
Riverside raises $30 million Series C to expand its podcast and video recording platform
Connyct, an exclusive social media app for college students, emerges amid potential TikTok ban
Fitness startup Ladder comes after Peloton for allegedly copying their app
Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate
After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
Twos to-do app adds a feature that automatically adds a suggested action against a task
This ex-Scale AI leader built a platform to automatically extracts insights from customer feedback
Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform
Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot
Orakl Oncology combines data and biology to bring new drugs to cancer patients
Joco almost died at launch. Now, it’s a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable business
Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike
India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025
From pond scum to premium skincare?
Volta, a Shopify for B2B transactions, raises biggest pre-seed round of Italy
Scaling startups top priority, as EU reboots its top team
Biolevate’s raises €6M to helps medical writers keep up with the pace of new drugs
Cambridge materials science spin-out Molyon is on a mission to make next-gen batteries fly
Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board
Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner
Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, upending Europe’s industrial plan
Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS is ‘primary’ cloud partner
Lighthouse, an analytics provider for the hospitality sector, lights up with $370M at a $1B valuation
Raven Space Systems opens up a whole new category of industrial 3D printing
Ben Ling’s Bling Capital has already nabbed another $270M for fourth fund
Portugal’s Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine
Ex-Duolingo execs raise $13M for startup making it easier to access a college education
Selector automatically spots IT issues and recommends fixes
Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI
Moonvalley wants to build more ethical video models
Influur wants to standout from other influencer marketplaces by promising timely payout
Mission Space launches next quarter to provide real-time space weather forecasts
ePlane looks to ride the Indian government’s interest in air taxis with new $14M round
Atlas.co wants its web-based mapping tool to be the Figma of geospatial data
Just Eat Takeaway sells Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million
Swiggy market debut fuels India’s food, quick commerce wars
Bounce bags $19M to expand its traveler convenience network
SmartBank secures $26M for its personal finance management app
Equal has a plan to fight India’s growing cyber fraud problem
Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital
Yelp just spent $80M on a site for car repair estimates
Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down
Glint Solar grabs $8M to help accelerate solar energy adoption across Europe
Ulysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations
Nodal connects hopeful parents with surrogates as reproductive freedom hangs in limbo
Research Grid raises $6.4M to automate clinical trial admin
Alan unveils AI health assistant for its 680,000 health insurance members
Datadog challenger Dash0 aims to dash observability bill shock
CareYaya is enabling affordable home care by connecting healthcare students with elders
CoffeeSpace is a Hinge-like app that wants to help you find your co-founder
Former Caribou founder launches Further, a fintech that’s focused on helping people buy homes
Buddy.ai is using AI and gaming to help children learn English as a second language
Hummingbirds, a platform that connects local creators with brand campaigns in their area, raises $5.4M
MealMe, the startup integrating food ordering tech into apps, picks up $8M
Gecko Materials wants to sell you the next Velcro
Luna wants to help young girls navigate their health and well-being
Infraspeak raises $19.5M to bring collaboration to facilities management
Emidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating environmental reporting
Read AI raises $50M to integrate its bot with Slack, email, and more
Vinted hits $5.4B valuation amid wave of secondary share sales in Europe
General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally
Screenable’s app turns any iPhone into a starter phone for kids
Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash
Cash collection startup Upflow also wants to handle B2B payments
Interface.ai raises $30M to help banks field customer requests
Cement startup Furno lands $20M grant to build low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago
CrewAI uses third-party models to automate business tasks
Socket lands a fresh $40M to scan software for security flaws
Shobizzy, a networking app for the TV industry, aims to open new doors for freelancers
Uprise wants to help small businesses make better financial decisions
Byju’s founder says his edtech startup, once worth $22B, is now ‘worth zero’
With $11.9 million in funding, Dottxt tells AI models how to answer
How Paladin’s drones helped Asheville during Hurricane Helene
ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions
Storio is helping other businesses unlock more value from solar energy
Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
Table Space eyes $2.5B valuation in India IPO
Peanut, a social network for women, adds a pregnancy tracking tool
This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves Béhar to bring humanoids home
MiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research
UK neobank Monzo hits $5.9B valuation with secondary market sale
Streamer Plex rolls out movie and TV show reviews
Health insurtech startup Qantev raises €30 million to outperform LLMs with small AI models
Zap Energy shows off its new fusion power prototype, Century
Alaska Airlines’ venture lab spins out its first startup: Odysee
Distributional raises $19M to automate AI model and app testing
Revyze, a ‘TikTok for education’ startup, draws on Duolingo to add bite-sized learning too
Ollie scoops up health startup to launch a tool that analyzes dog poop
SoCreate wants to transform screenwriting software with AI imagery and community sharing tools
AirOps is an all-in-one platform for generating and managing AI-based marketing content
Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
Spill, the Black-owned Twitter alternative, scores investment from Kerry Washington
Pallet uses AI to bring logistics into the 21st century
Numa raises $32M to bring AI and automation to car dealerships
Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to back up cloud infrastructure
Beta Technologies unveils first passenger carrying electric aircraft
.Airship wants to build better sales tools for HVAC contractors
Podcasting startup Podeo gets $5.4M to go beyond the Arab world
HungryPanda, a food ordering app for the Asian diaspora, picks up $55M
Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC
Indian game streaming startup Loco sells majority stake to Redwood
Prepared, which wants to ‘revolutionize’ emergency 911 calls, raises $27M
Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises $45M Series B
WhatFix raises a whopping $125M for its in-app user guides
Radian Aerospace completes ground tests of prototype space plane
Fintech Mesa promises 1% cash back on mortgages, up to 3x on other home needs
Torq, which automates cybersecurity workflows, raises $70M in new capital
Jump raises $12M to help freelancers get benefits just like employees
David Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents
FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations
Health insurance startup Alan reaches $4.5B valuation with new $193M funding round
Tidal Metals sees seawater as the solution to a critical mineral shortage
Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting
Nurture wants to teach kids important life skills through interactive gameplay and entertainment
Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean they have cured blindness
Quick-commerce startup Flink raises another $150M at a valuation of nearly $1B
Greenlite, founded by an ex-Gopuff exec, automates construction permitting
AI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders
Life360’s Tile introduces its first new Bluetooth trackers since its acquisition
OffDeal wants to help small businesses find big exits with AI agents
Humanz brings its influencer marketing platform to the U.S.
Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers, mobility companies
Tune.FM wants to take on Spotify by using crypto to pay artists up to 100x more per stream
Paymob, started by three college friends, lands another $22 million and is profitable in Egypt
Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources
Qualifyze swallows $54M to improve pharmaceutical supply chains
Neurode wants to treat and track ADHD symptoms through a wearable headband
Sunamp’s thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips
The coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballers
All Hands AI raises $5M to build open source agents for developers
Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services
Reonic raises €13 million to help small installers of green tech like heat pumps and solar panels
As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation
Dutch clean energy investor SET Ventures lands new €200 million fund, which will go toward digital tech
You.com ‘refocuses’ from AI search to deeper productivity agents with new $50M round
‘Hospital at home’ startup Doccla raises $46 million for its European expansion
Laptop-leasing startup Fleet wants to become the IT companion for small companies
Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
‘Emotion AI’ may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic
Atlassian acquires Rewatch as it gets into AI meeting bots
The guy who sued NAR over real estate fees has co-founded a startup
Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ tools and aims to integrate ‘a Community Notes-like’ feature in the future
Fluid Truck’s board ousted its sibling co-founders amid allegations of mismanaging funds
Planera raises $13.5M to help solve the gnarly problem of scheduling for construction contractors
Supio brings generative AI to personal injury cases
Food delivery is seeing more consolidation: GrubMarket snaps up FreshGoGo
Piramidal’s foundation model for brainwaves could supercharge EEGs
The founder building a wealth-management product her grandmother would have loved
Travly lets travelers submit videos for a chance to earn a 5% commission from hotel bookings
Tingit is building a marketplace for ‘zero-effort’ repairs, starting with fashion
Openmart wants to make it easier for enterprises to sell to local businesses
Dropbox acquires Index Ventures-backed AI scheduling tool Reclaim.ai
The Rounds scoops up $24M to bring its ‘household restocking’ delivery service to more markets
SleekFlow snaps up $7M to tap the conversational AI opportunity across Asia
Beyond Math’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars
Defcon AI closes $44M seed round to solve a problem of ‘maximum complexity’: Military logistics
Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products
Keychain aims to unlock a new approach to manufacturing consumer goods
Keychain aims to unlock a new approach to manufacturing consumer goods
AI social media vetting startup Ferretly secures $2.5M, launches election personnel screening tool
Stoke Space’s initial launch plans at Cape Canaveral take shape
CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews
Move over SEO, Profound is helping brands with AI search optimization
EliseAI lands $75M for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters
.ArborXR secures $12M to boost its management platform for AR and VR devices
PayZen secures $23M Series B, $200M debt facility to grow its “care now, pay later” product
Ex-Clubhouse employees take another swing at a social networking startup
Bandana lands new investment to help hourly wage workers find good jobs
Archer to set up air taxi network in LA by 2026 ahead of World Cup
Humidity sucks. Transaera has a new way to deal with it
Cocoon is transforming steel production runoff into a greener cement alternative
Anduril raises $1.5B at a $14B valuation
Fintech Payoneer is buying 5-year-old global payroll startup Skuad for $61M in cash
Database startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment
H3X scales up its electric aerospace ambitions with $20M in new funding
Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M
From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better
Trade My Spin is building a business around used Peloton equipment
Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups
Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation to sell up to $420M in shares ahead of commercial launch
Indian startups Ola Electric, FirstCry gut valuations ahead of IPOs
Sybill raises $11M for its AI assistant that helps salespeople reduce administrative burden
Date Like Goblins, a new dating platform, allows users to virtually date and play video games
Applied Carbon’s farm robot turns plant waste into biochar to capture CO2
Lime is piloting two new e-bikes to attract more women and older riders
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is gearing up for a comeback
Alphabet X spinoff Skip partners with Arc’teryx to bring ‘everyday’ exoskeleton to market
Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy
Energy tech startup Greenely grabs €8M to reach more households and support Europe’s energy transition
Intron Health gets backing for its speech recognition tool that recognizes African accents
Kodiak Robotics is taking self-driving trucks off road to reach profitability faster
Micropep taps tiny proteins to make pesticides safer
QA Wolf secures $36M to grow its app QA-testing suite
Linx emerges from stealth with $33M to lock down the new security perimeter: Identity
Farmblox puts the control into farmers’ hands with its AI-powered sensor-reading platform
Without this company’s technology, future fusion power plants might never light up
Unpacking how Alphabet’s rumored Wiz acquisition could affect VC
PE firm PartnerOne paid $28M for HeadSpin, a fraction of its $1.1B valuation set by ICONIQ and Dell Technologies Capital
Fintech startup Coast lands $40M just 4 months after its last $25M raise
WHAM! Nuclear fusion experiment hits new record for magnet strength
Deel acquires Hofy to build its own IT device management service
A company building Wordle for chess raises money from a16z Speedrun, Mark Pincus and Eric Wu
Kandji raises another $100M for Apple device management as valuation rises to $850M
Astor’s ‘community’ approach to financial advice aims to help women feel more confident about investing
Toddle wants to ‘change how we build software’ with a collaborative visual web app builder
Adaptive builds automation tools to speed up construction payments
How VanMoof’s new owners plan to win over its old customers
Why Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ superconducting magnet sale is more than it seems
A startup set out to fight climate change — it did it by helping plumbers
Beeble AI raises $4.75M to launch a virtual production platform for indie filmmakers
Joby Aviation is betting on hydrogen-electric aircraft for regional flight
Iceland is dodging the VC doldrums as Frumtak Ventures lands $87 million for its fourth fund
Deep tech startups with very technical CEOs raise larger rounds, research finds
Nala to use $40M Series A to build B2B payments platform, scale remittance services
Byway is using AI to help travelers slow down and take the scenic route
Investors chase wealthtech startups in India as affluent class grows
Quantum Rise grabs $15M seed for its AI-driven ‘Consulting 2.0’ startup
Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept
Husband-and-wife former Olympians target $50M for new fund to invest in influencer-led consumer brands
News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping
CoinDCX acquires BitOasis in international expansion push
Indian edtech Unacademy cuts another 250 jobs
Altrove uses AI models and lab automation to create new materials
As the AI boom gobbles up power, Phaidra is helping companies manage datacenter power more efficiently
Sensorita uses digital twins to help waste management companies streamline construction waste
Illumex is using GenAI to ease pain of getting good data into LLMs
Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt
Rondo Energy funding shows a new way across the climate startup ‘valley of death’
Austin-based Ironspring Ventures raised $100m to invest in industrial revolution
Sensi.AI grabs $31M Series B from Insight, Zeev to monitor seniors 24/7
Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model
Rainforest lands $20M to challenge Stripe with embedded payments for SaaS providers
Boeing’s Wisk Aero buys Verocel to boost software safety for self-flying eVTOL
Rocketlane snags $24M to bring AI-led experiences for professional services teams
Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code
Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)
‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees
Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia
Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation
Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras
Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce
Seen is a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content
Bitsening raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving
Kilimo helps farmers save water and get paid for it
EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy
Loop Golf looks to take the stress out of booking a tee time
What StepStone’s $3.3B venture secondaries fund tells us about LPs’ current appetite for venture
GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A
Friends & Family Capital, a fund founded by ex-Palantir CFO and son of IVP’s founder, unveils third $118M fund
AccountsIQ takes in $65M to boost its bookkeeping tools with AI
Let there be Light! Danish startup exits stealth with $13M seed funding to bring AI to general ledgers
Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market
Kelvin wants to help save the planet by applying AI to home energy audits
Raspberry Pi is now a public company as its shares pop after IPO pricing
Anterior grabs $20M from NEA to expedite health insurance approvals with AI
Autonomy’s Mike Lynch acquitted after US fraud trial brought by HP
Novel battery manufacturer EnerVenue is raising $515M, per filing
Carta’s valuation to be cut by billions in an upcoming secondary sale
Eyebot raised $6M for AI-powered kiosks that provide 90-second eye exams without optometrist
Whizz wants to own the delivery e-bike subscription space, starting with NYC
Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A
Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart disease earlier and more accurately
‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
Raspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit
Iyris makes fresh produce easier to grow in difficult climates, raises $16M
Ashby injects recruiting with a dose of AI
Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances
YoLa Fresh, a GrubMarket for Morocco, digs up $7M to connect farmers with food sellers
OneScreen.ai brings startup ads to billboards and NYC’s subway
Exactly.ai secures $4M to help artists use AI to scale up their output
Tech startup Odyssey goes on journey to help states implement school choice programs
Kinnect’s new app aims to help families record and store generational memories
Ledger starts shipping its high-end hardware crypto wallet
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales
Doly lets you generate 3D product videos from your iPhone
Indian EV startup Zypp Electric secures ENEOS backing to fund expansion to Southeast Asia
Auggie’s new app helps parents find community and shop
Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops
Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures
Unify helps developers find the best LLM for the job
Hydrolix seeks to make storing log data faster and cheaper
Patronus AI is off to a magical start as LLM governance tool gains traction
Rollup wants to be the hardware engineer’s workhorse
Zen Educate raises $37M and acquires Aquinas Education as it tries to address the teacher shortage
CyberArk snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to ramp up in machine-to-machine security
Agora raises $34B Series B to keep building the Carta for real estate
Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation
Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines
Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing Quickbooks
Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers
Aplazo is using buy-now-pay-later as a stepping stone to financial ubiquity in Mexico
Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
Retell AI lets companies build ‘voice agents’ to answer phone calls
Bluesky now lets you personalize its main Discover feed using new controls
Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching
Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows
Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed to apply AI to remote inspections and audits
Meati Foods bites into another $100M amid growth to 7,000 retail locations
After a $20M Series A funding, Germany’s Insempra plans eco-friendly lipid production
Samsung Medison to acquire French AI ultrasound startup Sonio for $92.7M
DocuSign acquires AI-powered contract management firm Lexion
Honeycomb Insurance grabs $36M Series B from solo VC-led Zeev Ventures
Dropbox, Figma CEOs back Lamini, a startup building a generative AI platform for enterprises
Iconiq raises $5.15B toward seventh flagship fund
Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time
Freshworks acquires Device42 for $230M, appoints Dennis Woodside new CEO
Digital fraud detection startup BioCatch hits $1.3B valuation as Permira buys majority stake
ButcherBox acquires ‘Shark Tank’-featured startup Truffle Shuffle
Midi is building a digital platform for an oft-overlooked area of women’s health
Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners closes $98M Fund IV with two investments made so far
neuroClues wants to put high speed eye tracking tech in the doctor’s office
Carbonfact is a carbon management platform designed specifically for the fashion industry
Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices
Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup Kubik gets fresh funding, plans to license out its tech
Zomato’s quick commerce unit Blinkit eclipses core food business in value, says Goldman Sachs
The FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses could be good for startups. But it also might be struck down.
Playruo lets you try game demos from your web browser
Edonia grabs €2M to turn microalgae into less bitter-tasting ground meat alternative
Madica, a program by Flourish Ventures, steps up pre-seed investing in Africa
Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, raises $66M
Campus, a community college startup, receives $23M Series A extension led by Founders Fund
Two widow founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma
Webflow acquires Intellimize to add AI-powered webpage personalization
Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser, starts an affiliate link program