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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