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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