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Deals•Feb 16, 2026
Flapping Airplanes Raises $180M Seed Round to Pursue Data‑efficient AI
Flapping Airplanes, a new AI research lab focused on data‑efficient training, announced it has secured $180 million in seed funding. The undisclosed round gives founders Ben and Asher Spector and Aidan Smith runway to develop novel AI models that require far less data.
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Deals•Feb 5, 2026
ElevenLabs Raises $500M in Latest Funding Round at $11B Valuation
ElevenLabs announced a $500 million fundraising round, valuing the voice‑AI startup at $11 billion. The round, led by Sequoia Capital, will fund the company’s push to make voice the next major AI interface across devices. The announcement was made during...
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Deals•Jan 29, 2026
Apple Acquires Israeli AI Startup Q.ai for $2B
Apple announced the acquisition of Q.ai, an Israeli imaging and machine learning startup, in a deal valued at nearly $2 billion. The purchase aims to strengthen Apple's AI capabilities in audio and vision technologies, with Q.ai's founders joining Apple as part...
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Deals•Jan 28, 2026
Tesla Invests $2B in xAI as Part of Series E Funding Round
Tesla disclosed a $2 billion investment in Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, joining other investors in the company’s $20 billion Series E round. The investment was made despite a shareholder vote rejecting authorization and aligns with Tesla’s AI and robotics strategy.
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Deals•Jan 28, 2026
Handshake Acquires AI Data Labeling Startup Cleanlab
Handshake announced the acquisition of Cleanlab, a data‑quality software startup, in an acqui‑hire that adds nine Cleanlab employees, including its co‑founders, to Handshake's research team. The terms were undisclosed, and the deal aims to strengthen Handshake's AI data‑labeling capabilities for...
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Deals•Jan 28, 2026
Modelence Secures $3M Seed Funding Led by Y Combinator
Modelence, a Y Combinator‑backed startup that simplifies AI‑driven app building, announced a $3 million seed round. The round was led by Y Combinator with participation from Rebel Fund, Acacia Venture Capital Partners, Formosa VC and Vocal Ventures. The funding will help...
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Deals•Jan 26, 2026
CVector Secures $5M Seed Funding Led by Powerhouse Ventures
CVector, an industrial AI startup, announced a $5 million seed round to expand its AI-powered software platform for large-scale manufacturing and utilities. The round was led by Powerhouse Ventures with participation from Fusion Fund, Myriad Venture Partners and Hitachi's corporate...
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Deals•Jan 25, 2026
HEN Technologies Secures $22M Series A Funding Led by O’Neil Strategic Capital
Fire‑suppression startup HEN Technologies announced a $20 M Series A round and $2 M of venture debt, bringing total funding to over $30 M. The round was led by O’Neil Strategic Capital with participation from NSFO, Tanas Capital and z21 Ventures. The capital will...
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Deals•Jan 24, 2026
Harvey Acquires Hexus to Boost Legal AI Offerings
Harvey, a legal AI startup, announced it has acquired Hexus, a tool‑building startup for product demos and videos. Deal terms were not disclosed; Hexus’s San Francisco team has joined Harvey and its India engineers will move after a Bangalore office opens,...
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Deals•Jan 22, 2026
Quadric Raises $30 Million Series C Led by Accelerate Fund
Quadric, a chip‑IP startup focused on on‑device AI inference, announced a $30 million Series C funding round led by Accelerate Fund, managed by Beenext Capital Management. The round brings total funding to $72 million and supports its expansion into laptops, industrial devices, and...
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Deals•Jan 21, 2026
Preply Raises $150M Series D, Hits $1.2B Unicorn Valuation
Ukrainian‑origin language learning platform Preply announced a $150 million Series D round, pushing its valuation to $1.2 billion and cementing its unicorn status. The funding will support AI‑driven features and expansion across its four offices in Barcelona, London, New York and Kyiv.
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Deals•Jan 21, 2026
Zanskar Raises $115M Series C to Scale AI-Driven Geothermal Exploration
Zanskar, an AI-powered geothermal startup, announced a $115 million Series C funding round led by Spring Lane Capital, with participation from a slate of investors including Union Square Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Munich Re Ventures. The capital will be used to expand its AI-driven...
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Deals•Jan 8, 2026
Spangle Raises $15M Series A Led by NewRoad Capital Partners, Valuing AI E‑commerce Startup at $100M
AI e‑commerce startup Spangle announced a $15 million Series A round led by NewRoad Capital Partners, bringing total funding to $21 million and valuing the company at $100 million. The round also included Madrona, DNX Ventures and Streamlined Ventures, along with strategic angel investors....
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Deals•Jan 8, 2026
Snowflake to Acquire Observe for ~$1B
Snowflake announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire observability platform Observe for an estimated $1 billion. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, will integrate Observe’s telemetry capabilities into Snowflake’s data cloud, enhancing monitoring and debugging for customers.
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Deals•Jan 8, 2026
OpenAI Acqui‑hires Convogo Team to Boost AI Cloud Efforts
OpenAI announced an acqui‑hire of the Convogo team, the creators of an AI‑powered executive coaching platform. The all‑stock deal will see Convogo’s three co‑founders join OpenAI to work on its AI cloud initiatives, while Convogo’s product will be wound down....
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Deals•Jan 7, 2026
Meta to Acquire AI Assistant Platform Manus for $2B
Meta announced a $2 billion acquisition of AI assistant platform Manus, sparking regulatory scrutiny in both the United States and China. The deal follows a recent financing round led by Benchmark and raises concerns over export controls as Manus relocates from...
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Deals•Dec 23, 2025
Marissa Mayer’s Dazzle Secures $8M Seed Funding Led by Forerunner Ventures
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s new AI‑assistant startup Dazzle announced an $8 million seed round at a $35 million valuation. The round was led by Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Greycroft, Offline Ventures, Slow Ventures and Bling Capital.
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Deals•Dec 23, 2025
Lemon Slice Raises $10.5M Seed Round From Y Combinator, Matrix Partners and Others
Lemon Slice announced a $10.5 million seed round to fund its AI‑driven digital avatar platform. The round was led by Matrix Partners and Y Combinator, with participation from Dropbox CTO Arash Ferdowsi, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear and The Chainsmokers.
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Deals•Dec 20, 2025
Resolve AI Secures Series A Funding at $1 Billion Valuation
Resolve AI, an autonomous site reliability engineering startup, announced a Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the company at $1 billion. The round’s exact size was not disclosed, but the funding will accelerate its AI‑driven SRE platform.
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Deals•Dec 19, 2025
Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs Launches, Seeks €500M Funding at $3.5B Valuation
AI pioneer Yann LeCun announced the formation of Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs and is targeting a €500 million raise at a €3 billion valuation. The fundraising is being pursued immediately after launch, positioning AMI Labs as a major new player in...
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Deals•Dec 18, 2025
Swedish AI Startup Lovable Raises $330M Series B at $6.6B Valuation
Lovable, the Stockholm‑based AI‑driven vibe‑coding platform, announced a $330 million Series B round led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at $6.6 billion. Existing backers Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures and other investors also participated.
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Deals•Dec 18, 2025
Peripheral Labs Secures $3.6M Seed Round Led by Khosla Ventures
Peripheral Labs announced a $3.6 million seed round to fund its affordable volumetric video platform for sports, led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Daybreak Capital, Entrepreneurs First and Transpose Platform. The funding will accelerate product development and go‑to‑market efforts targeting...
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Deals•Dec 17, 2025
MoEngage Secures $180M Series F Follow‑On Funding, Valued Over $900M
MoEngage, the Bengaluru‑based customer engagement platform, announced a $180 million Series F follow‑on round, with $123 million coming from secondary sales and $57 million as primary capital. The round was led by ChrysCapital and Dragon Funds, with participation from Schroders Capital, TR Capital, B...
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Deals•Dec 16, 2025
Databricks Secures $4B Series L Funding at $134B Valuation
Databricks announced a $4 billion Series L financing round, pushing its valuation to $134 billion as it doubles down on AI‑centric products. The round was led by Insight Partners, Fidelity and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with participation from a slate of top venture and...
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Deals•Dec 16, 2025
Leona Health Secures $14M Seed Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Streamline WhatsApp Doctor Communication in Latin America
Leona Health announced a $14 million seed round to expand its AI‑copilot that organizes doctor‑patient messaging on WhatsApp across 14 Latin American countries. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from General Catalyst, Accel, Maven Clinic, Nubank and Rappi,...
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Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Mirelo Secures $41M Seed Funding Led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz
Berlin‑based AI startup Mirelo announced a $41 million seed round to fund its video‑to‑soundtrack technology. The round was led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Atlantic and several angel investors. The capital will accelerate product development and hiring...
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Deals•Dec 15, 2025
First Voyage Secures $2.5M Seed Round to Launch AI Habit‑building Companion Momo
First Voyage announced a $2.5 million seed round led by a16z speedrun, SignalFire and True Global to expand its AI companion app Momo Self Care. The funding will support an Android launch and further AI enhancements, positioning the startup in the...
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Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Harness Secures $240M Series E Funding, Valued at $5.5B
AI DevOps platform Harness announced a $240 million Series E round, pushing its post‑money valuation to $5.5 billion. The round was led by Goldman Sachs with participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures, and includes a $40 million employee tender offer.
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Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Spoor Raises €8M Series A to Expand AI-Powered Bird Monitoring
Norwegian AI startup Spoor announced a recent €8 million ($9.3 million) Series A round led by SET Ventures, with participation from Ørstead Ventures and Superorganism. The funding will accelerate its computer‑vision platform for protecting birds around wind turbines and expand into new markets.
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Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Port Secures $100M Series C to Challenge Spotify’s Backstage
Port announced a $100 million Series C round led by General Atlantic, with participation from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners and Team8, valuing the startup at $800 million. The funding will accelerate its AI‑driven developer portal platform that competes with Spotify’s Backstage. The round...
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Deals•Dec 9, 2025
Cashew Research Secures C$1.5M Pre‑Seed Funding to Accelerate AI‑Driven Market Research
Calgary‑based AI startup Cashew Research announced it has closed a C$1.5 million pre‑seed round, aimed at expanding its AI‑powered market research platform. The funding will support product development and U.S. market expansion as the company targets B2B customers.
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Deals•Dec 9, 2025
Unconventional AI Secures $475M Seed Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed
Former Databricks AI head Naveen Rao's startup Unconventional AI announced a $475 million seed round at a $4.5 billion valuation. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures with participation from Lux Capital and DCVC, marking a massive early‑stage raise...
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Deals•Dec 9, 2025
Empromptu Secures $2M Pre‑Seed Funding Led by Precursor Ventures
Empromptu, an AI platform that lets enterprises build applications via chat, announced a $2 million pre‑seed round on Tuesday. The round was led by Precursor Ventures with participation from Zeal Capital, Alumni Ventures, Founders Edge and South Loop, and will fund...
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Deals•Dec 5, 2025
AI Synthetic Research Startup Aaru Raises $1B‑valued Series A
Aaru, a one‑year‑old AI‑driven synthetic research startup, announced a Series A financing that values the company at a $1 billion headline valuation. The round was disclosed by sources to TechCrunch, marking a significant milestone for the market‑research platform.
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Deals•Dec 2, 2025
Simular Secures $21.5M Series A Led by Felicis to Accelerate AI Agent Platform
Simular announced a $21.5 million Series A round led by Felicis, with existing seed investors NVentures and South Park Commons also participating. The funding will support the rollout of its AI‑driven agent for macOS and the upcoming Windows version.
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Deals•Dec 2, 2025
Gradium Secures $70M Seed Funding to Accelerate AI Voice Technology
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium announced a $70 million seed round led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, with participation from Xavier Niel, DST Global Partners, Eric Schmidt and others. The funding will support the launch of its ultra‑low‑latency audio‑language models for developers across...
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Deals•Dec 1, 2025
Nvidia Invests $2B in Synopsys to Deepen AI Chip‑design Partnership
Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in Synopsys, purchasing shares at $414.79 each as part of a multi‑year partnership to integrate Nvidia’s AI hardware with Synopsys’s EDA tools. The corporate venture aims to accelerate chip‑design workflows by moving Synopsys’s platform to...
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Deals•Dec 1, 2025
OpenAI Takes Stake in Thrive Holdings in Latest Circular Deal
OpenAI announced it is acquiring an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, a private‑equity‑style firm that backs AI‑focused companies. The terms were not disclosed, but the partnership will embed OpenAI’s engineering and research teams within Thrive‑owned businesses to accelerate AI adoption....
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Deals•Dec 1, 2025
U.S. Commerce Department to Invest Up to $150M in Chip Startup xLight
The U.S. Commerce Department announced a deal to provide up to $150 million in equity funding to semiconductor startup xLight, marking the government’s third equity stake in a private company. The investment, sourced from the 2022 Chips and Science Act, aims...
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Deals•Nov 28, 2025
Supabase Secures $100M Funding Round at $5B Valuation
Supabase, the open‑source database platform, announced a new $100 million financing that lifts its valuation to $5 billion. The round follows a $200 million raise at a $2 billion valuation just months earlier, underscoring rapid growth in its backend‑as‑a‑service business.
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Deals•Nov 26, 2025
Onton Secures $7.5M Series A Funding Led by Footwork to Expand AI-Powered Shopping Beyond Furniture
Onton, the AI‑driven shopping platform formerly known as Deft, announced a $7.5 million funding round led by Footwork with participation from Liquid 2, Parable Ventures and 43. The capital will fuel expansion into new categories such as apparel and consumer electronics.
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Deals•Nov 24, 2025
Momentic Secures $15M Series A to Accelerate AI‑Driven Software Testing
AI testing startup Momentic announced a $15 million Series A round led by Standard Capital with participation from Dropbox Ventures and existing backers including Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform and Karman Ventures. The funding will help expand its AI‑powered software testing platform and...
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Deals•Nov 20, 2025
TCS Secures $1 Billion From TPG for AI Data‑center Project
Indian IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced it has secured a $1 billion investment from private‑equity firm TPG to fund the first phase of its $2 billion HyperVault AI data‑center initiative. The multi‑year partnership will help build gigawatt‑scale, liquid‑cooled facilities...
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Deals•Nov 20, 2025
Sortera Raises $45M in Equity and Debt to Fund Second Aluminum‑sorting Plant
Sortera announced a $20 million equity raise and $25 million debt financing led by VXI Capital, with participation from Overlay Capital, Yamaha Motor Ventures and Trinity Capital. The capital will fund a replica plant in Tennessee slated for operation in spring 2026,...
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Deals•Nov 20, 2025
Finland’s NestAI Secures €100M Funding Led by Tesi and Nokia to Build Defense AI
Finnish AI startup NestAI announced a €100 million funding round, led by sovereign fund Tesi and hardware giant Nokia, to develop physical AI for defense and autonomous systems. The capital will help establish Europe’s leading physical AI lab and support the...
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Deals•Nov 19, 2025
Function Health Secures $298M Series B, Valued at $2.5B
Function Health announced a $298 million Series B round led by Redpoint Ventures, pushing its valuation to $2.5 billion. The round also included participation from a16z, Aglaé Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Battery Ventures, NFDG and other investors, fueling the launch of its Medical Intelligence...
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Deals•Nov 18, 2025
Peec AI Secures $21M Series A to Power AI‑Driven Brand Search Platform
Berlin‑based Peec AI announced a $21 million Series A round led by European VC Singular, with participation from Antler, Combination VC, identity.vc and S20. The funding will accelerate product growth, expand the team and support a new US office as the...
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Deals•Nov 17, 2025
Bone AI Secures $12M Seed Round to Accelerate AI‑Powered Defense Robotics
Seoul‑based Bone AI announced a $12 million seed round led by Third Prime, with strategic participation from Kolon Group. The funding will support the startup's AI‑driven autonomous drones, ground and marine vehicles targeting defense and government contracts across Asia and beyond.
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Deals•Nov 17, 2025
PowerLattice Raises $25M Series A Led by Playground Global and Celesta Capital
PowerLattice, a chiplet startup focused on energy‑efficient AI hardware, announced a $25 million Series A round led by Playground Global and Celesta Capital, bringing its total funding to $31 million. The round was disclosed as the company emerged from stealth on Monday, positioning...
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Deals•Nov 17, 2025
Sakana AI Secures $135M Series B, Valued at $2.65B
Tokyo‑based Sakana AI announced a $135 million Series B round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $2.65 billion. The round was led by a mix of Japanese financial heavyweight Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and global venture firms including Khosla Ventures, Macquarie Capital, NEA,...
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Deals•Nov 17, 2025
Runlayer Secures $11M Seed Round Led by Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Felicis
AI‑agent security startup Runlayer announced an $11 million seed round on Monday, raised from Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois and Felicis Ventures. The funding will help the company expand its all‑in‑one MCP security platform for enterprise customers, including several unicorns that...
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Deals•Nov 17, 2025
Luminal Secures $5.3M Seed Round Led by Felicis Ventures
Luminal announced a $5.3 million seed round on Monday, led by Felicis Ventures with angel participation from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, and Ben Porterfield. The funding will support its GPU‑code optimization framework aimed at improving inference performance for AI workloads.
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Deals•Nov 13, 2025
Cursor Secures $2.3B Funding Round Valuing Company at $29.3B
Cursor announced a $2.3 billion funding round on Thursday, boosting its valuation to $29.3 billion. The round was co‑led by Accel and Coatue, with participation from Thrive Capital, Nvidia and Google as strategic investors. Proceeds will fund the development of Composer, Cursor’s...
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Deals•Nov 13, 2025
Milestone Secures $10M Seed Round to Track GenAI ROI
Israeli AI startup Milestone announced a $10 million seed funding round led by venture firm Heavybit and Hanaco Ventures, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and several angel investors. The round will help the company expand its platform that correlates GenAI tool...
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Deals•Nov 13, 2025
Bindwell Secures $6M Seed Funding to Accelerate AI‑Driven Pesticide Discovery
AI‑focused startup Bindwell announced a $6 million seed round led by General Catalyst and A Capital, with participation from Paul Graham and SV Angel. The funding will fuel development of its proprietary AI models for designing new pesticide molecules and pursuing licensing deals...
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Deals•Nov 11, 2025
Robyn AI Companion Secures $5.5M Seed Round Led by M13
Former physician Jenny Shao’s AI companion startup Robyn announced a $5.5 million seed round, led by venture firm M13 with participation from investors Lars Rasmussen, Bill Tai, Ken Goldman and Christian Szegedy. The funding will support product launch and growth of...
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Deals•Nov 10, 2025
Kaltura Acquires AI Avatar Startup eSelf.ai for $27M
Kaltura announced the acquisition of Israel‑based eSelf.ai, a conversational avatar platform, in a deal valued at about $27 million. The acquisition will integrate eSelf’s real‑time AI avatar technology into Kaltura’s video solutions for enterprise customers.
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Deals•Nov 10, 2025
Scribe Secures $75M Series C Funding at $1.3B Valuation
Scribe announced a $75 million all‑equity Series C round, valuing the workflow‑automation startup at $1.3 billion. The round was led by StepStone with participation from Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, Morado Ventures and New York Life Ventures, and will fund the rollout of...
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Deals•Nov 10, 2025
1mind Secures $30M Series A Led by Battery Ventures to Boost AI‑Driven Sales Agents
AI sales startup 1mind announced a $30 million Series A round on Monday, led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $40 million. The round also included Primary Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Operator Collective, Harmonic Growth Partners, Success Venture Partners and several...
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Deals•Nov 6, 2025
Subtle Computing Secures $6M Seed Round Led by Entrada Ventures
California‑based Subtle Computing announced it has closed a $6 million seed round, led by Entrada Ventures with participation from Amplify Partners and Abstract Ventures. The funding will accelerate development of its voice‑isolation models for noisy environments and support upcoming product launches.
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Deals•Nov 6, 2025
Inception Secures $50M Seed Round Led by Menlo Ventures to Advance Diffusion Models for Code and Text
AI startup Inception announced a $50 million seed round to develop diffusion‑based models for code and text. The round was led by Menlo Ventures with additional angel contributions from Andrew Ng and Andrej Karpathy. The funding will accelerate the rollout of its...
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News•Nov 5, 2025
Microsoft Built a Fake Marketplace to Test AI Agents — They Failed in Surprising Ways
Microsoft researchers unveiled an open‑source synthetic environment called the “Magentic Marketplace” to evaluate AI agents in a controlled, multi‑agent setting. In initial trials, 100 customer‑side agents interacted with 300 business‑side agents using leading models such as GPT‑4o, GPT‑5 and Gemini‑2.5‑Flash....
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News•Nov 5, 2025
SoftBank, OpenAI Launch New Joint Venture in Japan as AI Deals Grow Ever More Circular
SoftBank and OpenAI have created a 50‑50 joint venture, SB OAI Japan, to localize and sell OpenAI’s enterprise AI tools, branded as “Crystal intelligence,” to Japanese corporations. The venture’s first customer is SoftBank itself, which plans to deploy the solution...
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News•Nov 5, 2025
Former Meta Employees Launch a Ring to Take Voice Notes and Control Music
Sandbar, founded by former Meta interface designers Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, is launching Stream, a voice‑controlled smart ring that lets users record notes, interact with an AI chatbot, and manage music via a touch‑pad and built‑in microphones. The ring...
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Deals•Nov 5, 2025
Wabi Raises $20M Pre‑seed Round to Build AI‑powered Social App Store
Wabi, the AI‑driven "YouTube of apps" platform founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, announced a $20 million pre‑seed funding round. The round was backed by a roster of high‑profile angels including Naval Ravikant, Garry Tan, Justin Kan, Amjad Masad, Akshay Kothari,...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Amazon Sends Legal Threats to Perplexity over Agentic Browsing
Amazon has issued a cease‑and‑desist letter to AI search startup Perplexity, demanding that its agentic browsing tool, Comet, stop facilitating purchases on Amazon without clearly identifying itself as a bot. Amazon argues that third‑party agents must disclose their status and...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
People Inc Forges AI Licensing Deal with Microsoft as Google Traffic Drops
People Inc., a leading U.S. media publisher owned by IAC, signed an AI licensing deal with Microsoft, becoming a launch partner in Microsoft’s new publisher content marketplace where AI services pay per use for content. The agreement follows a prior...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Rivian Creates Another Spinoff Company Called Mind Robotics
Rivian announced the formation of Mind Robotics, an industrial AI and robotics spinoff aimed at leveraging Rivian's operational data to create a robotics data flywheel for manufacturing efficiency. The venture, chaired by CEO RJ Scaringe, raised a $115 million seed round...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Google’s AI Mode Gets New Agentic Capabilities to Help Book Event Tickets and Beauty Appointments
Google announced new agentic capabilities in its AI Mode, allowing users to book event tickets and beauty or wellness appointments directly through Search. The feature searches multiple sites in real time, curates options, and links to booking pages, building on...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Shopify Says AI Traffic Is up 7x Since January, AI-Driven Orders Are up 11x
Shopify reported that AI‑driven traffic to its merchants’ stores has surged seven‑fold since January and AI‑generated orders have risen eleven‑fold, underscoring the company’s push into "agentic commerce" after partnering with OpenAI, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. The e‑commerce platform highlighted its...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Anthropic Projects $70B in Revenue by 2028: Report
Anthropic forecasts up to $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow by 2028, driven by rapid uptake of its AI models through API sales and a growing roster of enterprise partners such as Microsoft, Salesforce, Deloitte and Cognizant. The...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Nvidia, Deutsche Telekom Strike €1B Partnership for a Data Center in Munich
Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom have inked a €1 billion partnership to build an “Industrial AI Cloud” data center in Munich, deploying more than 1,000 Nvidia DGX B200 systems and up to 10,000 Blackwell GPUs that will raise Germany’s AI compute capacity by roughly...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
ClickUp Adds New AI Assistant to Better Compete with Slack and Notion
ClickUp unveiled version 4.0, adding two AI agents—a channel‑wide assistant that proactively answers questions using internal knowledge and external sources, and a general‑purpose assistant called Brain that can generate ideas, schedule meetings, draft content and interact with tools like Google Drive, OneDrive,...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Alexa+ Comes to the Amazon Music App
Amazon announced that its AI‑enhanced assistant, Alexa+, will be integrated into the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, initially available to users in the Alexa+ Early Access program across all subscription tiers. The new assistant supports natural‑language conversations, enabling...
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Deals•Nov 4, 2025
Rivian Launches Mind Robotics, Secures $115M Seed Round Led by Eclipse
Rivian announced the creation of Mind Robotics, an industrial AI and robotics spinoff, which has secured a $115 million seed round led by venture firm Eclipse. The funding aims to develop advanced AI-driven robotic solutions for manufacturing and other physical‑world businesses.
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Studio Ghibli and Other Japanese Publishers Want OpenAI to Stop Training on Their Work
A Japanese trade organization, CODA, representing publishers including Studio Ghibli, sent a letter to OpenAI demanding that the company cease training its AI models on members' copyrighted works without permission. The appeal follows the popularity of OpenAI’s image generator and...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Dia’s AI Browser Starts Adding Arc’s ‘Greatest Hits’ to Its Feature Set
Dia, the AI‑native web browser acquired by Atlassian for $610 million, will incorporate several of Arc’s most popular features such as sidebar mode, vertical tabs, pinned‑grid view and Google Meet picture‑in‑picture, while leveraging a new architecture that promises better speed, security...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Microsoft’s $15.2B UAE Investment Turns Gulf State Into Test Case for US AI Diplomacy
Microsoft announced a $15.2 billion investment in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, including the first U.S.‑licensed shipments of Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs to the Gulf state. The deal builds on $7.3 billion already spent since 2023—covering a $1.5 billion...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Microsoft Inks $9.7B Deal with Australia’s IREN for AI Cloud Capacity
Microsoft signed a five‑year, $9.7 billion contract with Australia’s IREN to secure AI cloud capacity built on Nvidia’s GB300 GPUs, to be deployed at IREN’s 750‑megawatt facility in Childress, Texas, through 2026. IREN is concurrently investing about $5.8 billion in GPUs and...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
LG Founder’s Grandson, Production Firm Partner up to Bring AI to Filmmaking
LG Group founder’s grandson Brian Koo, via investment firm Stock Farm Road, has launched a 50‑50 joint venture with AI film producer Utopai Studios called Utopai East. The JV will develop AI‑focused infrastructure, anchored by a planned 3‑GW data center...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Kevin Rose’s Simple Test for AI Hardware — Would You Want to Punch Someone in the Face Who’s Wearing It?
Kevin Rose, a general partner at True Ventures, uses a visceral “punch‑in‑the‑face” test to evaluate AI wearables, arguing that devices that feel invasive should be avoided. Drawing on his board experience at Oura and personal use of failed products like...
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Deals•Nov 3, 2025
Microsoft Invests $1.5B Equity in UAE Sovereign AI Firm G42
Microsoft announced a $15.2 billion AI investment plan for the UAE, which includes a $1.5 billion equity stake in G42, the country's sovereign AI company. The deal was unveiled at the Abu Dhabi Global AI Summit, marking a major corporate venture into...
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News•Nov 2, 2025
Google Pulls Gemma From AI Studio After Senator Blackburn Accuses Model of Defamation
Google removed its Gemma model from the AI Studio platform after U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn accused the chatbot of fabricating false rape allegations against her, citing a specific hallucinated response that linked her to a nonexistent 1987 scandal. Blackburn also...
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News•Nov 2, 2025
Sam Altman Says ‘Enough’ to Questions About OpenAI’s Revenue
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a podcast that the company’s annual revenue is "well more" than the reported $13 billion and is growing steeply, while the firm faces over $1 trillion in compute‑infrastructure commitments for the next decade. He brushed off detailed...
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News•Nov 2, 2025
Meta Has an AI Product Problem
Meta’s latest earnings reveal a $7 billion year‑over‑year rise in operating expenses and nearly $20 billion in capital outlays, driven by an aggressive AI build‑out that includes two new data centers and an estimated $600 billion U.S. infrastructure spend over three years. CEO...
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News•Nov 1, 2025
AI Researchers ’Embodied’ an LLM Into a Robot – and It Started Channeling Robin Williams
Andon Labs equipped a simple vacuum robot with six leading large language models—including Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Opus 4.1, GPT‑5, Gemini ER 1.5, Grok 4 and Llama 4 Maverick—to test how well they could execute a multi‑step office task of fetching butter. The models were scored on perception, planning...
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News•Oct 31, 2025
Perplexity Strikes Multi-Year Licensing Deal with Getty Images
Perplexity, an AI‑powered search startup, has signed a multi‑year licensing agreement with Getty Images that permits the company to display Getty’s stock photos in its search and discovery tools with proper attribution and links to the original source. The deal,...
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News•Oct 31, 2025
Tim Cook Says Apple Is Open to M&A on the AI Front
Apple CEO Tim Cook told investors on the Q4 2025 earnings call that the company remains open to acquisitions and partnerships to accelerate its AI roadmap, maintaining a three‑pronged strategy of in‑house foundation models, third‑party LLM collaborations, and targeted M&A. He...
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News•Oct 31, 2025
YC Alum Adam Raises $4.1M to Turn Viral Text-to-3D Tool Into AI Copilot
AI startup Adam, a YC Winter 2025 alum, raised a $4.1 million seed round led by TQ Ventures with participation from 468 Capital, Pioneer, Script Capital, Transpose Platform and several angels. The funding follows a viral text‑to‑3D model that generated over...
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News•Oct 31, 2025
Nvidia Expands AI Ties with Hyundai, Samsung, SK, Naver
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited South Korea during the APEC 2025 summit, announcing a $5‑trillion‑valued company’s expanded partnership with the Korean government and leading firms Hyundai Motor, Samsung, SK Group and Naver. South Korea will procure over 260,000 Nvidia GPUs—about...
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Deals•Oct 31, 2025
Adam Secures $4.1M Seed Funding to Build AI‑Powered CAD Copilot
AI startup Adam announced a $4.1 million seed round led by TQ Ventures, with participation from 468 Capital, Pioneer, Script Capital, Transpose Platform and several angel investors. The funding will accelerate development of its AI copilot for professional CAD workflows, moving...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
Bevel Raises $10M Series A From General Catalyst for Its AI Health Companion
Bevel, a New York health‑tech startup, announced a $10 million Series A round led by General Catalyst to accelerate its AI‑powered health companion. The app aggregates data from wearables, sleep, fitness and nutrition trackers into personalized insights and has grown more than eightfold in...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
Figma Acquires AI-Powered Media Generation Company Weavy
Figma announced the acquisition of AI‑powered image and video generation startup Weavy, adding its 20‑person team and creating a new brand called Figma Weave. Weavy, founded in 2024 and backed by a $4 million seed round, offers a node‑based platform that lets...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
The Prompting Company Snags $6.5M to Help Products Get Mentioned in ChatGPT and Other AI Apps
The Prompting Company, a Y Combinator‑backed startup founded by Kevin Chandra, Michelle Marcelline and Albert Purnama, raised $6.5 million in seed funding to commercialize generative engine optimization (GEO), a service that creates AI‑friendly pages so large language models like ChatGPT can...
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Deals•Oct 30, 2025
Figma Acquires AI Media-Generation Startup Weavy, Launches Figma Weave
Figma announced it has acquired AI-powered image and video generation startup Weavy, which will join Figma under a new brand called Figma Weave. The Tel-Aviv-based startup’s 20 employees will join Figma; the companies did not disclose the deal valuation.
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Deals•Oct 30, 2025
The Prompting Company Raises $6.5M Seed Round to Power AI‑driven Product Discovery
The Y Combinator‑backed startup The Prompting Company announced a $6.5 million seed round to expand its generative engine optimization platform that helps brands appear in AI‑powered recommendations. The round was led by Peak XV Partners with participation from Base10, Y Combinator, Firedrop and angel...
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Deals•Oct 30, 2025
Bevel Secures $10M Series A Funding From General Catalyst for AI Health Companion
Bevel, a New York‑based health‑tech startup, announced a $10 million Series A round led by General Catalyst to scale its AI‑driven health companion that aggregates wearable and nutrition data. The funding will support product expansion and user growth as the company targets...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko Is a Big Fan of Agentic Coding
Solana co‑founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko told TechCrunch Disrupt that he now relies heavily on agentic coding tools such as Claude, allowing him to step back from hands‑on development. He highlighted Solana’s robust financial results, reporting $2.85 billion in annual revenue...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
ElevenLabs CEO Says AI Audio Models Will Be ‘Commoditized’ over Time
ElevenLabs co‑founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski told TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that AI audio models will become commoditized within the next few years, even as the company continues to solve current architecture challenges that give it a short‑term edge. He said ElevenLabs will...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Grammarly Rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ Launches a New AI Assistant
Grammarly announced it will rename its corporate entity to Superhuman following its July acquisition of the Superhuman email client, while the Grammarly product name remains unchanged. The company launched Superhuman Go, an AI assistant built into the Grammarly extension that provides...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Character AI Is Ending Its Chatbot Experience for Kids
Character.AI announced it will eliminate open‑ended chatbot conversations for users under 18, phasing out access by November 25 with a shrinking daily time limit and robust age‑verification measures. The decision follows lawsuits and two teen suicides linked to prolonged AI...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Phia’s Founders on How AI Is Changing Online Shopping
Phia, an AI startup founded by Stanford roommates Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, launched a browser extension and app that aggregates pricing data from more than 150 second‑hand platforms, covering over 350 million items, to help shoppers compare prices and assess...
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Deals•Oct 29, 2025
Nvidia Invests $1 Billion in Nokia to Fuel AI-Native 5G/6G Efforts
Nvidia announced it has invested $1 billion in Nokia to help pioneer AI-native 5G-Advanced and 6G networks, using Nokia products alongside Nvidia platforms. The move was disclosed by Nvidia the week of Oct. 29, 2025 as part of its broader...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Inside CampusAI’s Mission to Close the AI Training Gap for Everyday Workers — Check It Out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
CampusAI, a Warsaw‑based startup, is launching an AI education platform aimed at non‑technical workers, offering a consumer subscription (Me+AI) at $250 per year and a B2B package (Team+AI) at $25,000 per year that combines avatar‑driven courses, a metaverse campus, an...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Mappa’s AI Voice Analysis Helps You Find the Best Job Candidates and Will Show Off Its Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt...
Mappa, an AI‑powered behavioral intelligence platform founded in 2023, uses voice‑pattern analysis to gauge traits such as empathy and confidence and then ranks job candidates by role compatibility. The startup has raised $3.4 million in a seed round led by Draper...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Super Teacher Is Building an AI Tutor for Elementary Schools — Catch It at Disrupt 2025
Super Teacher, founded by ex‑Google product manager Tim Novikoff, offers an AI‑powered tutoring app for elementary students at $15 a month (or $10 with an annual plan) and has signed up roughly 20,000 families, with public schools in New York, New Jersey...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Have a ‘Legitimate AI Researcher’ by 2028
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company aims to create an AI system capable of functioning as a “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028. The roadmap hinges on two pillars: continued breakthroughs in core algorithms and a dramatic increase in...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Elloe AI Wants to Be the ‘Immune System’ for AI — Check It Out at Disrupt 2025
Elloe AI founder Owen Sakawa pitched his platform as an “immune system” for artificial‑intelligence, a layer that sits on top of any large language model to filter bias, hallucinations, errors, misinformation and compliance breaches. The startup, a Top 20 finalist in...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
VC Vinod Khosla Says the US Government Could Take 10% Stake in All Public Companies to Soften the Blow of...
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, proposed that the U.S. government acquire a 10% equity stake in every public company and redistribute the proceeds to citizens as a way to share the wealth generated by artificial general intelligence (AGI). He...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Mem0 Raises $24M From YC, Peak XV and Basis Set to Build the Memory Layer for AI Apps
Mem0, a Y Combinator‑backed startup founded by Taranjeet Singh and Deshraj Yadav, announced a $24 million financing round (including a $20 million Series A led by Basis Set Ventures and a $3.9 million seed). The company offers a model‑agnostic "memory passport" that lets AI applications...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Adobe Firefly Image 5 Brings Support for Layers, Will Let Creators Make Custom Models
Adobe unveiled Firefly Image 5, boosting native generation resolution to 4 megapixels and improving human rendering, while introducing layered and prompt‑based editing that lets users modify objects without losing detail. The update adds a closed‑beta feature for creators to build custom image...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Adobe Launches AI Assistants for Express and Photoshop
Adobe unveiled AI assistants for its Creative Cloud apps Express and Photoshop, with Express offering a toggleable mode that generates images and designs from text prompts, and Photoshop’s closed‑beta sidebar assistant capable of understanding layers, auto‑selecting objects, creating masks and...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
OpenAI Offers Free ChatGPT Go for One Year to All Users in India
OpenAI will give all users in India a free one‑year subscription to its ChatGPT Go plan if they sign up during a promotion that begins on November 4. The offer applies to new and existing ChatGPT Go subscribers, a tier that costs under...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Says AI Will Shorten Our Workweek
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan told TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that AI assistants—exemplified by Zoom’s new “digital twin” avatar that can speak for users—will enable a shorter workweek. He demonstrated the avatar in a recent earnings call and said Zoom...
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Deals•Oct 28, 2025
OpenAI Completes For‑profit Recapitalization as Investors Take Stakes, Including SoftBank and Microsoft
OpenAI announced completion of a recapitalization converting into a for‑profit OpenAI Group controlled by a non‑profit foundation, with ownership split (Foundation 26%, Microsoft ~27%, investors and employees 47%). The restructuring accompanies a reported $30B SoftBank investment and extends Microsoft’s IP...
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Deals•Oct 28, 2025
Mem0 Raises $24M Series A to Build Memory Layer for AI Apps
Mem0 raised $24 million in total funding, comprising $3.9M in previously unannounced seed and a $20M Series A led by Basis Set Ventures with participation from Kindred Ventures, Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, and the GitHub Fund, to expand its...
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Deals•Oct 28, 2025
CampusAI Is Raising a $20M Series A to Expand B2B AI Upskilling
Warsaw‑based CampusAI is currently raising a $20 million Series A to expand its AI upskilling platform into 40 markets by 2030, focusing on B2B sales and enterprise customers. The two‑year‑old startup says it is on track for $2M+ ARR and...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
Mbodi Will Show How It Can Train a Robot Using AI Agents at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Mbodi, a New York‑based startup, will showcase its AI‑agent‑driven robot‑training platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 as a Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalist. The cloud‑to‑edge system lets users issue natural‑language prompts, which a network of AI agents breaks into subtasks to quickly...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
Oxford Spinout RADiCAIT Uses AI to Make Diagnostic Imaging More Affordable and Accessible — Catch It at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Oxford spinout RADiCAIT, founded on a 2021 Oxford generative‑AI model, has emerged from stealth with $1.7 million in pre‑seed funding and opened a $5 million seed round to advance clinical trials that turn standard CT scans into PET‑quality images. The company claims...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
Biotech Nephrogen Combines AI and Gene Therapy to Reverse Kidney Disease — Check It Out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Nephrogen, a biotech startup founded by Demetri Maxim, is leveraging AI‑driven screening to create a novel CRISPR‑based delivery system that targets polycystic kidney disease (PKD) cells. The company claims its platform transports gene‑editing medicines to the kidney 100 × more efficiently...
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Deals•Oct 27, 2025
Oxford Spinout RADiCAIT Raises $1.7M Pre-Seed and Opens $5M Seed Raise to Advance AI PET-From-CT Imaging
RADiCAIT, an Oxford spinout using AI to generate PET-quality images from CT scans, came out of stealth this month with $1.7M in pre-seed financing and has just opened a $5M seed raise to fund FDA clinical trials and commercial pilots.
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Deals•Oct 27, 2025
Nephrogen Raises $4M Seed to Advance AI-Driven Gene Therapy Delivery for Kidney Disease
Nephrogen, a biotech startup combining AI and gene‑editing delivery tech to target kidney disease, is raising a $4 million seed round to advance its delivery mechanism and drug into clinical studies anticipated in 2027.
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Deals•Oct 27, 2025
Mercor Raises $350M Series C at $10B Valuation to Scale AI Expert Marketplace
Mercor raised $350 million in a Series C at a $10 billion valuation, led by Felicis Ventures with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst and Robinhood Ventures. The AI-focused talent and training marketplace will use the capital to expand its expert...
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Cluely Raises $15M Series A From Andreessen Horowitz
Cluely, an AI meeting assistant startup, raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz earlier in 2025. The funding has been used for marketing, staffing and office expansion as the company scales.
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
OpenAI Acquires Software Applications, Makers of Sky AI Interface for Mac
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications, Inc., the startup behind Sky, an unreleased AI-powered natural language interface for Mac. Deal terms were not disclosed; the startup had previously raised $6.5M from investors including Sam Altman and Dylan Field.
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Tensormesh Raises $4.5M Seed to Commercialize LMCache for AI Inference
Tensormesh launched from stealth with a $4.5M seed round led by Laude Ventures and additional angel funding from Michael Franklin to build a commercial version of the LMCache utility, aiming to reduce AI inference costs and optimize GPU usage for...
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Turbo AI Raised $750,000 Seed Round
Turbo AI, an AI note‑taking startup founded by Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, raised $750,000 last year in an early financing. The company remains profitable and is cautious about raising more despite strong user growth and inbound interest.
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Wonder Studios Raises $12M Seed to Scale AI-Driven Content Production
London-based AI creative studio Wonder Studios raised $12M in a seed round led by Atomico with participation from LocalGlobe, Blackbird and other investors. The funds will be used to grow engineering, pursue IP ownership and accelerate original and commercial AI-generated...
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Deals•Oct 22, 2025
Shuttle Raises $6M Seed to Streamline Deployment for AI-Generated Apps
Platform-engineering startup Shuttle raised $6 million in a seed round to help deploy and manage applications produced by vibe-coding and other AI coding systems. Investors include former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen; funds will be used...
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Deals•Oct 22, 2025
Adaption Labs Closes Seed Round to Pursue Adaptive AI
Adaption Labs, a startup co-founded by former Cohere VP of AI Research Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy, has closed a seed funding round after talks to raise $20M–$40M earlier this fall; the final amount was not disclosed. The company will...
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Deals•Oct 21, 2025
LangChain Raises $125M at $1.25B Valuation in Growth Funding Led by IVP
Open‑source AI agent platform LangChain raised $125 million in a growth-stage financing that values the company at $1.25 billion. The round was led by IVP and included new investors CapitalG and Sapphire Ventures alongside existing backers Sequoia, Benchmark and Amplify.
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Deals•Oct 21, 2025
Fal.ai Raises ~$250M at $4B+ Valuation in Growth-Stage Funding Led by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia
Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai has closed a new funding round of approximately $250M that values the company at over $4 billion. Major investors in the round include Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia; the raise follows a $125M Series C earlier in...
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Deals•Oct 20, 2025
1001 AI Raises $9M Seed to Deploy Decision‑making AI for Critical MENA Industries
1001 AI, an AI infrastructure startup for aviation, logistics and oil & gas in the MENA region, raised a $9M seed round led by CIV, General Catalyst and Lux Capital with participation from several angels. The funding will accelerate product...
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Deals•Oct 20, 2025
Cercli Raises $12M Series A Led by Picus Capital to Build AI-Native HR Stack for MENA
Dubai-based Cercli raised an oversubscribed $12M Series A led by Picus Capital, with participation from Knollwood Investment Advisory, Y Combinator, Afore Capital, and COTU Ventures. The startup will use the funding to expand its AI-native HR, payroll and compliance platform...
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Deals•Oct 20, 2025
Periodic Labs Raises $300M Seed Round Led by Felicis to Build AI-Driven Materials Science Startup
Periodic Labs, founded by former OpenAI and Google Brain researchers Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, raised a $300M seed round led by Felicis to fund AI‑powered materials science R&D and a wet lab. Other backers include Andreessen Horowitz, DST,...
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Deals•Oct 20, 2025
OpenEvidence Raises $200M at $6B Valuation to Scale Medical AI
OpenEvidence raised $200 million at a $6 billion valuation in a growth-stage funding round led by Google Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Blackstone, Thrive Capital, Coatue Management, Bond and Craft. The startup, founded in 2022, provides an...
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Deals•Oct 17, 2025
Goldman Sachs to Acquire Industry Ventures for up to $965M
Goldman Sachs is acquiring Industry Ventures in a deal valued at up to $965 million, signaling Wall Street's interest in the secondary venture market. The acquisition was reported in TechCrunch's Oct 17, 2025 article referencing the transaction.
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Deals•Oct 16, 2025
Jack & Jill Raises $20M Seed Round Led by Creandum to Bring Conversational AI to Hiring
London-based recruitment startup Jack & Jill raised $20 million in a seed round led by EU investor Creandum to expand its conversational AI job-hunting platform and pursue U.S. growth. The company already has nearly 50,000 users in London and will...
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Deals•Oct 16, 2025
General Intuition Raises $133.7M Seed to Teach Agents Spatial-Temporal Reasoning From Game Clips
General Intuition, a spinout from Medal, raised $133.7M in a seed round led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst with participation from Raine. The startup will use Medal’s gaming video dataset to train foundation models and AI agents focused on...
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Deals•Oct 14, 2025
Flint Raises $5M Seed Led by Accel to Build AI-Driven Autonomous Websites
Flint, an AI startup that automates building and updating websites, emerged from stealth with a $5M seed round led by Accel and participation from Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners and Neo. The funding will support product development to enable dynamic, personalized...
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Deals•Oct 13, 2025
Goldman Sachs to Acquire Industry Ventures for up to $965M
Goldman Sachs is acquiring venture firm Industry Ventures in a deal valued at up to $965 million, signaling Wall Street’s growing interest in the secondary venture market.
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Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Prezent Raises $30M to Fund Acquisitions, Beginning with Founder’s Other Company
Enterprise-focused AI presentation startup Prezent has raised $30 million to pursue acquisitions of AI services firms, including an initial deal with the founder’s other company. The round follows a prior $20M raise and is earmarked to accelerate growth through M&A.
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Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Datacurve Raises $15M to Take on Scale AI
Datacurve raised $15 million to fund growth of its bounty-hunter dataset labeling platform aimed at competing with Scale AI. The capital will be used to scale operations and attract skilled engineers to complete hard-to-source datasets.
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Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Reflection Raises $2B at $8B Valuation to Build an Open Frontier AI Lab
Reflection has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation to expand from autonomous coding agents into an open-source frontier AI lab positioned against closed western labs and Chinese rivals like DeepSeek. The funding will support scaling research and platform...
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Deals•Aug 28, 2025
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863M in Series B2 with Participation From Google and Nvidia
Commonwealth Fusion Systems closed an $863M Series B2 round in August 2025 with participation from Google and Nvidia (and others), backing the company as it builds its Sparc demonstration reactor and advances commercial fusion efforts.
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