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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