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AI
Microsoft Invests in Veeam to Enhance AI-Powered Data Protection Solutions for 77% of Fortune 500 Companies
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9
6 months ago
Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025
China
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Business
Mixue Bingcheng's IPO Financing Subscription Exceeds HK$1.77 Trillion (USD 218 Billion), Oversubscribed 5,125 Times
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8
6 months ago
Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025
Economics
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Texas
Apple Unveils $500 Billion US Investment, 20,000 Jobs, New AI Server Plant
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86
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
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Metronome Raises $50 Million in Series C Funding, Powers Billing for OpenAI, Databricks, and NVIDIA, Servicing 150 Million End Users
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5
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Politics
Trump Advances AI Action Plan as Microsoft Commits Over $80 Billion to Veeam Software and AI Development
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19
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
Markets
Blockchains
Ethena Labs Secures $100M Funding to Enhance USDe Stablecoin, Valued at $5.88B, Amid $220B Market and 27M Addresses
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15
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
Europe
VC
Startups
Thoma Bravo Closes €1.8 Billion Fund for European Software Deals, UK VC Firm Launches $126 Million Fund
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16
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Swedish AI Startup Lovable Raises $16M for App Development, Boasts 500,000 Users and $17M ARR
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33
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
Mining
AI Fundraising
GEODNET Secures $8 Million Funding to Enhance DePIN and DePAI Networks, Unlocking $3.5 Trillion Opportunity with 13K+ Miners
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5
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
Markets
Business
Bitwise Secures $70M from Electric Capital, MassMutual, MIT to Expand Crypto Services, Manages $12B
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12
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
India
Bio
Energy
Amgen to Invest $200 Million in Telangana; CtrlS Launches ₹4,000 Crore Data Center Creating 500 Jobs
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7
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
France
AI Fundraising
Energy
Tech Companies Turn to Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy as Fluidstack Raises $200 Million for €10 Billion AI Data Center
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4
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
Health
AI Fundraising
AI Firm Raises $250 Million to Deploy Platform Across 100 Healthcare Systems, CEO Roger Perlmutter Sees Potential to Transform Healthcare Landscape
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4
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
DeFi
Business
Byzantine Finance Raises $3 Million from Node Capital and Blockwall Ventures to Enhance Permissionless Institutional Restaking Ecosystem
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5
6 months ago
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
VC
Startups
Business
Geniemode Raises Over $50 Million in Series C Funding Led by Multiples, Nandan Nilekani, and Others for Global Expansion
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6
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
China
Robotics
AI Fundraising
Shenzhen Launches $630M Incentives and $1.39B Fund for AI, Robotics, and Key Tech Development
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12
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
VC
Metaverse
Business
Meta Launches $50 Million Creator Fund and Competition for Horizon Metaverse Amid $8 Million Acid Labs and $2.3 Million Memes Lab Raises
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8
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
VC
Infosec
Startups
Austin-Based NinjaOne Raises $500 Million in Series C Extensions at $5 Billion Valuation
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5
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
US Domestic Policy
VC
Startups
Silicon Valley Startups, Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, and Point72 Ventures, Challenge Traditional Defense Contractors for Pentagon Contracts
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4
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Sustainability
Cambium Secures $18.5 Million Series A to Develop AI for Waste Wood Conversion in Mass Timber and Carbon Smart™ Wood
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8
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
Physics
AI Fundraising
Science
Microsoft Reaffirms $80 Billion AI Investment, Highlights Quantum Computing Breakthrough with Majorana 1 Chip
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44
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
India
VC
Stocks
Blinkit Receives Rs 1,500 Crore Boost and $172,000 from Zomato Amid Competition; Stock Surges 1.68%
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5
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Patlytics Raises $14 Million Series A Funding Led by Next47 for AI-Driven Patent Analytics Platform
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5
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
Economics
Politics
Business
Trump Secures Over $1.6 Trillion in Investments, Including $500B from Apple, $600B from Saudi Arabia, and $14.1B from Nippon Steel
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6
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
China
AI Modeling
AI Fundraising
Alibaba to Invest $53 Billion in AI and Cloud, Shares Hit Three-Year High After Jack Ma's Meeting with Xi Jinping
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73
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
Middle East
Stocks
Business
Alpha Data Prices IPO at Top Range Amid $20 Billion Demand and AI Boom in Abu Dhabi
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5
6 months ago
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
Britain
VC
Bio
Cambridge Innovation Capital Launches £100 Million Opportunity Fund for Deeptech and Life Sciences Startups, Backed by Aviva Investors and British Patient Capital
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8
6 months ago
Feb 23, 2025
Feb 23, 2025
Turkey
VC
Startups
Turkish Startup Investments Surge Fivefold to $2.6 Billion in 2024 Across 331 Transactions, Up from $497 Million in 2023
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7
6 months ago
Feb 23, 2025
Feb 23, 2025
VC
Business
Over One-Third of 1,200+ Unicorns Fail to Raise Funding Since 2021, 100+ Hover at $1B
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4
6 months ago
Feb 22, 2025
Feb 22, 2025
China
AI Modeling
AI Products
OpenAI Confirms 400 Million Weekly Users Amid Rising Competition from DeepSeek and $500 Billion U.S. Investment
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21
6 months ago
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Bio
AI Modeling
AI Fundraising
Achira Launches with $33 Million Seed Funding to Develop Atomic-Level Simulation Models for Drug Discovery, Co-Founded by @jchodera and @Tkaraletsos
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6
6 months ago
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Economics
VC
Business
Evolving IPO Landscape in 2025: Databricks and OpenAI Delay Going Public Amid Changing Market Conditions
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4
6 months ago
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
AI Products
AI Fundraising
AI
Arize AI Raises $70 Million in Series C Funding, Largest Investment Ever, to Enhance AI Observability and Develop AI Copilot
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10
6 months ago
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
VC
AI Products
AI Fundraising
OpenEvidence Raises $75M in First Outside Funding Round at $1B Valuation to Develop AI Chatbot for Doctors, Partners with NEJM
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8
6 months ago
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Startups
AI Products
Tech
Crunchbase Launches AI Tool Predicting Startup Success and Funding Rounds with 95% Accuracy, Says CEO Jager McConnell
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4
6 months ago
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Mercor AI Raises $100M in Series B Funding at $2B Valuation, Achieving $75M+ Revenue Run Rate and 51% MoM Growth
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20
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
Business
Stacy Brown-Philpot's Cherryrock Capital Raises $172 Million from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan to Support Diverse Founders
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14
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Afore Capital Launches $185 Million Fund IV, Aiming for $1 Million ARR with Fourth Consecutive Oversubscribed Fund
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6
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
India
VC
AI Fundraising
CTGT Inc. Secures $7.2 Million Seed Funding Led by Gradient Ventures to Enhance AI Solutions by 500x Faster with 99.9% Accuracy
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5
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
Startups
New York
First Round Capital, Lux Capital, BoxGroup, and Union Square Ventures to Host FoundersNYC Summit in NYC on May 9
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13
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Lambda Secures $480M Series D at $2.5B Valuation, With Nvidia's Backing, to Boost AI Cloud Services
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32
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Baseten Raises $75 Million from IVP and Spark, Valuation Reaches $825 Million for High-Performance Inference
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6
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Politics
Trump Announces $500 Billion Stargate Project to Boost U.S. AI Infrastructure with OpenAI, Supporting 75% of Computing Power
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5
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Together AI Secures $305M Funding at $3.3B Valuation, Led by General Catalyst and Prosperity7
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11
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Augury Raises $75M, Potentially $100M, to Expand AI Solutions for Factory Efficiency
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18
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
Stocks
Business
AI
Microsoft Hits $419; OpenAI Surpasses 400 Million Weekly Active Users in February
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5
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
Bio
AI Fundraising
SporeBio Secures $23 Million Series A to Cut Testing Time from Days to Minutes with AI-Powered Technology
Authors
6
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
Africa
India
AI
Microsoft Invests $1M in Nigeria for AI Skills Training of 1M, $10B in India for 10M Upskilled
Authors
4
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
Fintech
Business
Varo Raises $29 Million in Series G Funding, Aiming for $55 Million Total After $1 Billion Raised, Replaces Founder CEO
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9
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
Robotics
Texas
Saronic Raises $600M in Series C at $4B Valuation to Build Autonomous Shipyard 'Port Alpha' in Austin
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19
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
Business
Elon Musk's X in Funding Talks to Raise Funds at $44 Billion Valuation to Support Transformation
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8
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
Markets
Business
Tether Leads $10 Million Funding Round for Mansa, Financing $18M+ in Payments and Reporting $31M in TPV
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5
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
China
AI Fundraising
AI
DeepSeek Explores External Funding from Alibaba, China Investment Corporation, National Social Security Fund, but Denies Reports
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21
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Sanas Raises $65 Million Series B at $500M+ Valuation for AI Accent Translation Software, Led by Quadrille and Teleperformance
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8
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
DeFi
Blockchains
Universal Raises $9 Million Led by a16z to Enhance Cross-Chain Crypto Trading, Total Value Locked Nears $1B
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15
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
AI-Powered Startup Codeium Seeks New Funding at $2.85 Billion Valuation
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4
6 months ago
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
VC
AI Modeling
AI Fundraising
Elon Musk's xAI Seeks $10 Billion to Reach $75 Billion Valuation After $6 Billion Raised; 98% of Financial Firms Boost AI Investments
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4
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Business
Venture Capital and Private Equity Thrive in 2024, ICT Sector Leads with CAD $15.3B
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11
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Energy
Business
Small Modular Reactor Developers Raise Over $1.5 Billion, Including $700M from Amazon; Valar Atomics Secures $19 Million Seed Funding
Authors
5
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Former Intel Executives' AheadComputing Raises $21.5 Million from Eclipse Ventures for RISC-V Chip Development Addressing AI Performance Issues
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5
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Hightouch Raises $80M Led by Sapphire Ventures, Achieves $1.2B Valuation; Customers Include Spotify and DocuSign
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5
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Energy
Sustainability
Valaratomics Secures $19 Million Seed Funding and Historic First Contract to Develop Gigasites for Nuclear Energy
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6
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Robotics
AI Fundraising
Nvidia-Backed Field AI Seeks Hundreds of Millions at $2 Billion Valuation, Up from $500 Million Last Summer
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21
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Startups
Business
Verkada Raises $200 Million Series E Led by General Catalyst, Valued at $4.5 Billion with 30,000 Customers and 91 Fortune 500 Clients
Authors
8
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
India
VC
Business
Tata Sons Urges BigBasket to Raise $1 Billion Amid Blinkit, Zepto Quick Commerce Competition
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7
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Blockchains
Business
Fluent Labs Raises $8 Million Led by Polychain Capital with Support from Multiple Investors to Build Blended Execution Network
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7
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Fintech
AI Fundraising
Stacks Raises $10M, Co-Led by EQT Ventures and General Catalyst, Reducing Close Time by 50% with AI
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5
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
AI Products
AI Fundraising
AI
Singulr AI Launches with $10 Million Funding to Enhance Enterprise AI Adoption Amid AI Surge
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8
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
VC
Startups
AI Fundraising
Sawmills Raises $10 Million to Reduce Observability Data Costs with AI, Emerges from Stealth to Provide Telemetry Data Sovereignty
Authors
5
6 months ago
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
Spain
VC
Business
4Founders Capital Launches €44 Million Fund for Third Fund to Invest in 40 Startups
Authors
4
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
India
VC
Business
Udaan Raises $75 Million at $1.8 Billion Valuation
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14
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Europe
VC
Bio
Atrandi Biosciences, led by CEO Juozas Nainys, Raises $25 Million in Series A Financing from Lux Capital to Expand Technology
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6
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Economics
VC
Business
Venture Capital Landscape Shifts as 517 Unicorns Face Funding Drought; 354 VC-Backed Firms See 10 IPOs in 2021
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5
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Fintech
Blockchains
Tech
Forbes Marks 10th Year of Fintech 50 with 18 Newcomers Amid Funding Decline
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16
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Britain
VC
AI Fundraising
Luminance Secures $75M Series C Funding for Legal AI Assistant Following $40M Series B
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6
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Germany
VC
Startups
𝕏 Becomes Top News App in Germany and U.S., Valued at $44 Billion, in Talks to Raise Money at Musk's 2022 Price
Authors
4
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
VC
Infosec
AI Fundraising
Israeli AI Cybersecurity Startup Dream Raises $100 Million at $1.1 Billion Valuation, Backed by Bain Capital as Unicorn
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8
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
VC
Infosec
Hacks
Blockaid Raises $50 Million in Series B Funding Led by Ribbit Capital, Stopping 71 Million Attacks
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5
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Economics
Business
Tech
Data Center Spending to Exceed $1 Trillion by 2029 Amid AI Demand and Financial Transformation with New Lenders and Joint Ventures
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5
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Lingodot Secures $4.2 Million Seed Funding from Cornell Hackathon 2023 for AI Localization Engine
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5
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Brazil
VC
Business
Venture Capital Investment in Irish SMEs Hits Record €1.48 Billion in 2024, Brazil Reaches R$ 9 Billion
Authors
4
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
VC
Startups
Business
Imperia Raises Over €10 Million in Series A Funding, Totaling €13 Million, to Expand Supply Chain Management in UK, Italy, and France
Authors
5
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
AI Modeling
AI Fundraising
AI
Alphabet to Invest $75 Billion in AI by 2025, with $69 Billion in 2024; Zuckerberg's Meta Plans $65 Billion for Llama 4
Authors
4
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
India
Stocks
Business
LG Electronics Launches Roadshows for $1.5 Billion India IPO Valuing Unit at $15 Billion Amid 66 Companies Awaiting SEBI Nod
Authors
4
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Ilya Sutskever's AI Startup Raises $1B at $30B Valuation, Led by Greenoaks in 30x Jump
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25
6 months ago
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Startups
AI Products
Tech
Dell Nears $5 Billion Deal to Supply AI Servers for Grok Chatbot to Elon Musk's xAI
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10
6 months ago
Feb 17, 2025
Feb 17, 2025
VC
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Abridge Secures $250 Million in Series D Funding, Launches Contextual Reasoning Engine for Healthcare, Serving 100+ Customers
Authors
5
6 months ago
Feb 17, 2025
Feb 17, 2025
Startups
AI Fundraising
Tech
Y Combinator Offers Summer Fellows Grants: $20K Cash, $90K Compute Credits, AI Startup School Access
Authors
15
6 months ago
Feb 17, 2025
Feb 17, 2025
Europe
VC
Health
Irish Venture Capital Funding Reaches Record €1.5 Billion in 2024, Healthtech Surpasses $11 Billion
Authors
6
6 months ago
Feb 16, 2025
Feb 16, 2025
VC
Robotics
AI Fundraising
Figure Eyes $1.5B Funding at $40B Valuation Amid Robotics Boom
Authors
14
6 months ago
Feb 16, 2025
Feb 16, 2025
AI Modeling
AI Products
AI Fundraising
AI Sector Sees $20.9B Funding Surge, France Invests $112B, GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 Updates
Authors
18
6 months ago
Feb 15, 2025
Feb 15, 2025
DOGE
Politics
Business
Tesla and SpaceX Receive $18 Billion in Federal Funds as DOGE Head Elon Musk Advocates for Spending Cuts
Authors
26
6 months ago
Feb 15, 2025
Feb 15, 2025
India
VC
AI Fundraising
Nikhil Kamath Launches 2nd Cohort of WTFund for 22 Young AI Entrepreneurs Across 9 Startups with Grants Up to ₹20 Lakh
Authors
4
6 months ago
Feb 15, 2025
Feb 15, 2025
Stocks
Business
AI
David Tepper Increases Nvidia Stake by 55,000 Shares Amid $589 Billion Selloff and $900 Million Retail Investment
Authors
8
6 months ago
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
VC
Startups
Space
ICON Raises $56M for 3D Printing; Space Force Awards Firefly $21.8M for Victus Program
Authors
11
6 months ago
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
Health
AI Products
AI Fundraising
Prenuvo Raises $120 Million for FDA-Cleared AI Body Composition and Advanced Health Assessments
Authors
5
6 months ago
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
Tech
AI
Big Tech Set to Spend Over $500 Billion on AI Capex in 2024 and 2025, Including $320 Billion This Year
Authors
8
6 months ago
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
VC
Markets
Business
Gaorong Ventures Invests $30 Million in HashKey Group, Hong Kong's Biggest Exchange, Boosting Valuation to $1.5 Billion
Authors
7
6 months ago
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
VC
AI Products
AI Fundraising
EnCharge AI Raises $100 Million in Series B Funding Led by Tiger Global for 20x Energy-Efficient AI Chips
Authors
10
6 months ago
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
VC
AI Fundraising
Business
Aracor AI Raises $4.5 Million Pre-Seed Funding Led by Fuel Venture Capital on February 13, 2025
Authors
4
6 months ago
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Ex-OpenAI Scientist Jenny Xiao Secures $25 Million for New AI Fund