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Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals
14 juli 2025 · 5 min
Helios, a startup aiming to build an AI-powered operating system for policy professionals, has raised $4 million in seed funding.
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Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’ ... and more
14 juli 2025 · 4 min
Devin won’t replace humans developers at the bank. It will be supervised by them. Also, Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself. Smith launched her eponymous fund in 2022 and is a solo GP. She said she’s “stunned” by what AI can unlock for firms like hers, solo and next-generation.
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Knox lands $6.5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market
11 juli 2025 · 4 min
While highly sought after, federal software contracts frequently come with a hidden cost: Achieving government SaaS security compliance, known as FedRAMP, can take years and require substantial resources. Achieving this certification typically takes up to three years and costs more than $3 million, covering everything from security operations engineer salaries to security audits
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Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more
11 juli 2025 · 3 min
The micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian this year, was raised $200 million from Greenoaks Capital. Also, French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, reports Bloomberg
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European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones
10 juli 2025 · 9 min
With a fundraising target of €25 million, Darkstar’s goal is to help startups bring battle-tested products to military customers both in Ukraine and throughout Europe.
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LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say
10 juli 2025 · 3 min
AI infrastructure startup LangChain is raising a new round at about $1 billion valuation led by IVP.
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Why this LA-based VC firm was an early investor in Slate Auto
9 juli 2025 · 5 min
Slate Auto, which came out of stealth mode earlier this year with a surprising – and surprisingly affordable – customizable electric truck, has raised $700 million to date. But long before the EV startup broke cover, it quietly raised a Series A round of more than $100 million in 2023.
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UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe
9 juli 2025 · 5 min
If you walked into a Dubai bank to apply for a mortgage in 2020, chances are you’d spend months buried in paperwork or face a huge price discrepancy when it came to listings. Such experiences led Jad Antoun to start Huspy, a startup streamlining how people in the UAE buy homes digitally.
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Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank
8 juli 2025 · 6 min
Competitors to Darragh Buckley's Increase are so nervous about his ambitions to "own" a bank, someone has been trying to stop him.
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Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuation
8 juli 2025 · 3 min
Lovable released its vibe coder in late November. Within six month, the startup hit $50 million in ARR, CEO Anton Osika said.
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Former SpaceX manager alleges harassment, retaliation, and security violations in lawsuit
7 juli 2025 · 4 min
SpaceX is facing another lawsuit alleging discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation.
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Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gravity production
7 juli 2025 · 3 min
Lucid sold 3,309 vehicles in the second quarter, a new record for the EV maker. Still, the company must ramp up production of its Gravity SUV to meet its 2025 target.
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Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in
4 juli 2025 · 7 min
Qedma specializes in error mitigation software. Its main piece of software, QESEM, standing for Quantum Error Suppression and Error Mitigation, analyzes noise patterns to suppress some classes of errors while the algorithm is running and mitigate others in post-processing.
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Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots
4 juli 2025 · 3 min
Genesis AI, which aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with $105M in seed funding.
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Sri Mandir keeps investors hooked as digital devotion grows
3 juli 2025 · 8 min
AppsForBharat, the Indian startup behind the Hindu devotional app Sri Mandir, has raised $20 million in a new round — just over nine months after securing $18 million — as the app continues to attract not only devotees but also strong investor interest
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Tailor, a ‘headless’ ERP startup, raises $22M Series A
2 juli 2025 · 5 min
Tailor, a San Francisco- and Tokyo-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round. Investors include ANRI, JIC Venture Growth Investments (JIC VGI), New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Spiral Capital and Y Combinator.
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Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents
2 juli 2025 · 3 min
Predibase helps companies train and fine-tune open source AI models which will help Rubrik customers deploy AI agents faster.
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Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
1 juli 2025 · 4 min
Google will invest in Commonwealth Fusion Systems and buy 200 MW of electricity from its forthcoming power plant.
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PetLibro’s new smart camera uses AI to describe your pet’s movements, and it’s adorable
1 juli 2025 · 4 min
PetLibro launched an AI-powered smart camera that provides users with real-time insights into their pets' activities.
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This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really
30 juni 2025 · 7 min
Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup studio Prehype. Now, with his new, New York-based venture Audos, he’s betting that AI can help him scale that process from “tens” of startups a year to “hundreds of thousands” of aspiring business owners.
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Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant
30 juni 2025 · 4 min
Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines. Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the technology, an unwelcome bit of friction that coincides with rising costs in recent years.
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Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars
27 juni 2025 · 6 min
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr has raised $100 million in an all-equity Series B round led by General Catalyst, as the startup aims to boost its R&D and local production capabilities amid growing demand for drones in battlefields and for border surveillance.
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India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation
27 juni 2025 · 5 min
GoKwik, an Indian startup that offers a suite of integrated e-commerce products, has raised a small round of $13 million, which it calls a “growth” round, that has boosted its valuation to $450 million pre-money.
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Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app
26 juni 2025 · 5 min
Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia have raised millions of dollars in the last few months. Applications such as AI-powered notetaker Granola, and meeting tools Read AI and Fireflies AI have also received investor attention and backing.
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Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers
25 juni 2025 · 5 min
Andy Konwinski is pledging $100 million of his own money for a new kind of institute to fund researchers. It's already backed Ion Stoica's new lab.
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AllSpice’s platform is the GitHub for electrical engineering teams
25 juni 2025 · 4 min
AllSpice's platform has landed customers including Blue Origin and Bose and just raised a $15 million Series A round.
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Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers
24 juni 2025 · 4 min
Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha is acquiring German salary payment platform for seafaring workers, Kadmos.
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VanMoof is back with a new custom e-bike and rebooted repair network
24 juni 2025 · 8 min
Dutch e-bike startup VanMoof is back two years after bankruptcy with its first model designed under new leadership. And despite past criticism that VanMoof’s over-reliance on custom parts led to the company’s downfall, the S6 sticks to the brand’s signature bespoke design.
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Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate
23 juni 2025 · 6 min
When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference.
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Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
23 juni 2025 · 4 min
Midjourney launched its much anticipated AI video generation model, V1, on Wednesday and laid out a roadmap for its future releases.
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Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating for its female user base
20 juni 2025 · 4 min
Investment app Grifin secured a $11 million Series A funding round.
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Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion
20 juni 2025 · 6 min
Coralogix, an Israeli startup offering a full-stack observability and security platform, has raised $115 million at a pre-money valuation of over $1 billion, almost doubling in three years from its last round in 2022.
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Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy
19 juni 2025 · 5 min
Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.
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After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns
19 juni 2025 · 5 min
With Polar as their ‘Merchant of Record’ responsible for handling billing and taxes, developers can sell online products and SaaS subscriptions globally from day one.
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Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup
18 juni 2025 · 3 min
The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it occurred over “the most legendary party that never happened."
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Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora
18 juni 2025 · 5 min
India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade. Inward remittances jumped from $55.6 billion in 2010-11 to $118.7 billion in 2023-24, according to data from the country’s central bank. The bank projects that figure will reach $160 billion in 2029.
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Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors
17 juni 2025 · 5 min
Throughout her years working in technology, Jenny Wang, 28, always found herself stumbling back to one idea — a personal styling agent to help users decide what to wear and buy based on their budget, lifestyle, weather and calendar.
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Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs
17 juni 2025 · 4 min
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing announced that it raised an enormous Series B round on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.”
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Zevo’s EV-only car-share fleet is helping Tesla owners make money
16 juni 2025 · 5 min
Zevo is a new peer-to-peer car-sharing startup, which is broadly similar to Turo, but focused exclusively on electric vehicles.
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Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools
16 juni 2025 · 4 min
WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another communication-focused startup to its lineup: relationship-management app Clay.
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Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient
13 juni 2025 · 4 min
The company, based in the U.K., offers a productivity suite to streamline the legal drafting and review process.
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Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup
13 juni 2025 · 4 min
Standard Nuclear was the winning bidder for Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's fuel-related assets at a bankruptcy auction.
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Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
12 juni 2025 · 5 min
Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream
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Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG
12 juni 2025 · 7 min
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.
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Mitra Chem is raising $50M for its cheaper, domestic battery materials
11 juni 2025 · 2 min
Mitra Chem is developing materials to make lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries store more energy.
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XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
11 juni 2025 · 4 min
XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots.
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An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs and other socially taboo products
10 juni 2025 · 4 min
Impact investor and advisor Christian Tooley posed a simple question to the audience at SXSW London last week: What if investors put aside societal prudence for profit? Tooley was mainly referring to vice clauses, the restrictions that limited partners place on venture firms to guardrail their investments.
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Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers
10 juni 2025 · 6 min
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon.
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Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
9 juni 2025 · 5 min
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling.
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North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment
9 juni 2025 · 4 min
Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs poured $69.7 billion into North America-based AI and machine learning startups across 1,528 deals.
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