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Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient
Jun 13, 2025 – 03:53
Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup
Jun 13, 2025 – 04:17
Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
Jun 12, 2025 – 05:14
Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG
Jun 12, 2025 – 06:38
Mitra Chem is raising $50M for its cheaper, domestic battery materials
Jun 11, 2025 – 02:30
XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
Jun 11, 2025 – 04:07
An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs and other socially taboo products
Jun 10, 2025 – 04:22
Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers
Jun 10, 2025 – 05:49
Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
Jun 9, 2025 – 05:07
North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment
Jun 9, 2025 – 04:01
Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z
Jun 6, 2025 – 04:47
Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
Jun 6, 2025 – 04:32
Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year’
Jun 5, 2025 – 03:46
Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI
Jun 5, 2025 – 03:46
Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B
Jun 4, 2025 – 04:19
NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’
Jun 4, 2025 – 02:55
Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X
Jun 3, 2025 – 02:42
Grocery platform Misfits Market acquires The Rounds to further its mission of reducing food waste
Jun 3, 2025 – 03:01
Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024
Jun 2, 2025 – 04:31
Context gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suite
Jun 2, 2025 – 03:36
Rillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AI
May 30, 2025 – 03:54
A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding
May 30, 2025 – 05:22
Litehaus raises €1.46M pre-seed to build home-building platform
May 29, 2025 – 05:26
Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8 billion
May 29, 2025 – 03:02
Rocket Lab backer Outset raises $25M to fund New Zealand’s deep tech moonshots
May 28, 2025 – 05:39
RevenueCat raises $50M as it expands beyond mobile app monetization
May 28, 2025 – 06:02
The wild story of how gut health AI toilet startup Throne raised $4M led by Moxxie
May 27, 2025 – 06:23
A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model
May 27, 2025 – 03:50
Hinge Health pops 17%, but joins growing ranks of down round IPOs
May 26, 2025 – 03:37
Alt Carbon scores $12M seed to scale carbon removal in India
May 26, 2025 – 06:01
Field raises $17M to automate the drudgery of tax prep
May 23, 2025 – 03:51
Brex partners with former competitor Zip, with an eye on reducing cash burn to get to an IPO
May 23, 2025 – 07:29
Sylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and service used cars in Egypt
May 22, 2025 – 06:18
Gravitee, a platform that helps companies manage APIs, raises $60M
May 22, 2025 – 03:06
Adaptation Ventures is a new angel investor group focused on disability and accessibility tech
May 21, 2025 – 04:33
AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing
May 21, 2025 – 04:37
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
May 20, 2025 – 04:08
Acorns acquires family wealth and digital memory platform EarlyBird
May 20, 2025 – 04:10
Bain bets on Indian domestic work startup Pronto even as rivals face criticism
May 19, 2025 – 05:57
AI note-taking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features
May 19, 2025 – 04:14
Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins
May 16, 2025 – 04:56
Anthropic, Google score win by nabbing OpenAI-backed Harvey as a user
May 16, 2025 – 04:28
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
May 15, 2025 – 04:29
Improvements in ‘reasoning’ AI models may slow down soon, analysis finds
May 15, 2025 – 03:28
AllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routes
May 14, 2025 – 04:01
This American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusual
May 14, 2025 – 06:41
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
May 13, 2025 – 07:44
FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers
May 13, 2025 – 05:03
Clay authorizes employee tender at a $1.5B valuation led by Sequoia
May 12, 2025 – 04:09
Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app
May 12, 2025 – 03:45