Y Combinator

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The WizMay 28, 2025

Version Control Platform Diversion Secures $12M Funding for Creatives

Diversion, a version control platform for game developers, raised $12 million in funding, including a $4.5 million seed+ round led…

Artificial Intelligence

The WizMay 28, 2025

Spott’s AI Recruiting Platform Raises $3.2M to Streamline Hiring

Spott, an AI-powered recruiting platform, raised $3.2 million in seed funding to modernize staffing agencies with a unified AI-native system,…

Artificial Intelligence

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The WizMay 17, 2025

Y Combinator’s Firecrawl Offers $1M to Hire 3 AI Agents

Firecrawl, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is allocating $1 million to hire AI agents for roles like content creation, customer support,…

Artificial Intelligence

The WizMay 16, 2025

Fake Twitter Worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ Is a Real AI Engineer Backed by Harvard

The viral "Rahul Ligma" Twitter prank revealed Rahul Sonwalkar, a tech entrepreneur with experience at Uber and Y Combinator, who…

Business

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The WizMay 16, 2025

Startups Weekly: Optimism Grows, But Stay Cautious

Chime filed for an IPO and announced a $33 million marketing deal with the Dallas Mavericks, while Databricks is in…

Artificial Intelligence

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The WizMay 14, 2025

Y Combinator Alleges Google Is Hurting Startup Growth

Y Combinator accuses Google of stifling innovation by creating a "kill zone" that discourages VC investment in competing startups, particularly…

Business

George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt, holding a microphone and gesturing.

The WizMay 2, 2025

Fivetran Acquires Census for Complete Data Integration

Fivetran acquired Census to enhance its data integration capabilities, combining Fivetran's data extraction and loading with Census's reverse ETL technology…

Newswire

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The WizApril 23, 2025

Datadog Acquires AI Startup Metaplane for Enhanced Observability

Datadog has acquired Metaplane, an AI-driven data observability startup, to accelerate its venture into data observability and complement recent product…

AI & Tech