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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