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Chris Metinko / Axios ·
Exposure management startup Empirical Security raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Brightmind Partners, CEO Ed Bellis tells Axios Pro.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch ·
AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices …
Juro Osawa / The Information ·
Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors …
Bloomberg ·
Producing the world's most in-demand semiconductors requires enormous amounts of energy and access to rare minerals.
Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg ·
Blackstone Inc. has agreed to invest in Futronic, a South Korean supplier of high-precision actuators used in industrial robotics and the automotive sector.
Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg ·
China's Zhongji Innolight Co. is starting to gauge investor demand for its Hong Kong listing, according to terms of the deal seen by Bloomberg News …
Wall Street Journal ·
How venture-capital firms are rewriting the rules in a once-in-a-lifetime IPO boom
Alexandra Lindsay / The San Francisco ... ·
San Francisco is still waiting for the AI IPOs
Bloomberg ·
Moonshot AI has told investors it's preparing to list in as early as six months, seizing the opportunity to tap capital markets …
FinTech Global ·
Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning platform for financial services firms, has secured $30m in funding as it expands …
Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek ·
The British firm has built a collaborative platform to help organizations address supply chain security risks.
Wall Street Journal ·
Startup is also raising capital at $10 billion valuation in separate round led by Sequoia
The Information ·
Valar Atomics, a three-year-old startup that makes small nuclear reactors intended to power data centers and other industrial facilities …
The Information ·
OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company …
Wall Street Journal ·
Startup's valuation jumps 40% as AI boom drives demand for its data-analytics software
Rocket Drew / The Information ·
Humanoid raised $150 million in the first tranche of a Series A funding round that values the London-based robotics company at $1.2 billion …
Karissa Bell / Engadget ·
The group is trying to extend its influence beyond Meta.
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch ·
Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information ·
As a father to two young kids, Guanlan Dai sees a lot of similarities between AI agents and precocious children.
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune ·
Marc Lore is ready to ring the bell. The serial entrepreneur
Jordan Novet / CNBC ·
The cost of the latest artificial intelligence models is increasingly breeding anxiety among finance executives …
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune ·
In 2017, Nishith Khandwala was a Stanford computer science student with an idea
Éanna Kelly / Sifted ·
The startup teaches robots how to work in factories and homes
Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg ·
Brokerage and financial infrastructure startup Alpaca has raised $135 million in equity and $300 million in debt, as it looks to expand a business …
Reuters ·
Data center provider Csquare (CSQR.N) said on Thursday it raised $1.05 billion in its U.S. initial public offering as investors continued …
Samantha Subin / CNBC ·
SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 initial public offering price …
Ryan Lawler / Axios ·
Lumin Digital, which provides digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115 million at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation …
Lucinda Shen / Axios ·
Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised $100 million at an over $1 billion valuation, the company tells Axios exclusively.
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune ·
The advent of stablecoins has made it possible to settle global transactions instantly, but many payment providers have yet to catch up …
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu ·
Monumental develops autonomous construction robots and AI software to help builders address labour shortages and increase construction capacity.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
Voice AI startups' biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing and customer support.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Walden Robotics, a startup working on humanoids that was spun out of a Toyota robotics research lab, has secured approximately $300 million …
The Information ·
Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese open-source AI star to raise its second-funding round of 50 billion yuan …
Ryan Lawler / Axios ·
Hadrius, which makes compliance software for financial firms, raised a $22 million Series A, CEO Thomas Stewart tells Axios exclusively.
Bernhard Warner / New York Times ·
The health tech start-up co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek is worth billions more after a new $700 million funding round.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch ·
Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher whose work includes using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the ChatGPT maker …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·
Enterprise automation startup InstaLILY Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $60 million Series B round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to almost $100 million.
Reuters ·
Data center operator Switch is preparing for a significant initial public offering. This offering could potentially raise up to ten billion dollars soon.
Daniel Kuhn / The Block ·
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David Morris / Bloomberg ·
Chinese memory giant CXMT Corp. unveiled the terms of its initial public offering.
Aditya Soni / Reuters ·
Flex, an AI startup pitching itself as a one-stop shop for the banking needs of mid-sized business owners …
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times ·
The fund-raising values the company at $3.8 billion and underscores investor interest in using artificial intelligence to tackle problems like drug discovery.
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC ·
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse said today that it has closed its Series C extension, with a total of $439 million raised in the round.
TechCrunch ·
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures …
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune ·
Max Buchan started advocating for infrastructure sovereignty when, as he puts it, "globalization and Davos were still cool."
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire ·
Augmodo, the Seattle startup that straps AI-powered cameras onto retail workers to track store shelves, has raised $21 million …
Ben Weiss / Fortune ·
A startup founded during the early days of DeFi is now backed by a financial giant. Gauntlet, which helps institutions …
Wall Street Journal ·
The fast-fashion retailer could list in Hong Kong as early as the third quarter of this year
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg ·
Helsing has raised a financing round at a valuation of $18 billion from investors including the growth equity arm …
Lucia Moses / Business Insider ·
- Vendelux, a company that helps CMOs figure out their live events strategy, raised $50 million.
Zijing Wu / Financial Times ·
Chinese tech giant set to become largest shareholder in AI agent start-up after Beijing ordered reversal of US takeover
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·
Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC.
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune ·
Brendan Foody started Mercor when he was 19 years old. Now he's 23, worth billions on paper, and running one of the fastest-growing companies in AI history.
John Reynolds / Tech.eu ·
It says it will use the funding to develop its uncrewed surface vessels while expanding manufacturing facilities.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·
The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Venture, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch.
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune ·
Christina Qi spent a decade making money for billionaires, building Domeyard LP
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg ·
A startup that helps enterprises build AI agents proved the technology's value in the most practical way possible: by deploying one during its own fundraising.
Bloomberg ·
Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor Co. raised about $902 million from a share sale in Hong Kong after its stock soared since an initial public offering in January.