Topic: investor backing
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YC Alum's Viral Text-to-3D Tool Raises $4.1M for AI Copilot
Adam, a Y Combinator alum, raised $4.1 million in seed funding to develop its AI copilot for computer-aided design after gaining viral attention with its text-to-3D application. The startup's strategy focuses on consumer adoption first, then enterprise expansion, and it plans to launch a professi...
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Nothing Raises $200M from Tiger Global for AI Device Launch
Nothing secured $200 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $1.3 billion and bringing total funding to over $450 million, with strong investor backing. The company has achieved over $1 billion in total sales, shipping 5.1 million devices, and is focusing on AI integration and expandi...
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Sierra, Co-Founded by Bret Taylor, Raises $350M at $10B Valuation
Sierra, an AI agent startup co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, has raised $350 million in funding, reaching a $10 billion valuation led by Greenoaks Capital. The company has quickly gained hundreds of enterprise clients, including SoFi and Brex, and has raised a total of $635 million since...
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Framer No-Code Builder Hits $2 Billion Valuation Milestone
Framer has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising $100 million in a Series D funding round led by existing investors, highlighting its rapid growth in the no-code website building market. The platform, which has over half a million monthly active users, focuses on enabling teams to create d...
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Paris AI Startup Gradium Raises $70M in Seed Funding
Gradium, a new Paris-based AI startup, has launched with $70 million in seed funding to provide developers with realistic and responsive synthetic voices for applications. The company specializes in ultra-low latency audio models and launches with multilingual support, aiming to serve a global ma...
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Byju's Founder Appeals $1 Billion U.S. Court Ruling
Byju Raveendran is challenging a U.S. bankruptcy court's order to pay over $1.07 billion, claiming no wrongdoing and planning to appeal the decision. The judgment was issued due to Raveendran's repeated noncompliance with court directives, including evasive responses about $533 million in transfe...
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Groww IPO Raises $750M Amid India's Investing Boom
Groww launched India's largest fintech IPO this year, raising ₹66.3 billion and achieving a 29% surge in share price, boosting its market valuation to around ₹795 billion. Founded in 2016, the platform targets novice investors and competes with established firms, supported by a user base of over ...
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Groww, Backed by Satya Nadella, to Become First Indian Startup to Go Public After U.S.-India Move
Groww is preparing for a multi-billion dollar IPO, becoming the first Indian startup to list domestically after relocating its headquarters from the U.S. to capitalize on India's expanding capital markets. The IPO involves a secondary sale of shares by major investors and aims to raise ₹10.6 bill...
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The $100M+ Fusion Startups: Who's Leading the Charge?
Fusion energy has advanced significantly with over $10 billion in private investment, driven by breakthroughs in computing, materials science, and plasma confinement. A key milestone was achieved in 2022 when a U.S. lab reached scientific breakeven, producing more energy from fusion than was inpu...
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Bending Spoons: The Company Behind the AOL Acquisition
Bending Spoons has elevated its four cofounders to billionaire status through a major funding round and secondary share sale, securing $270 million in new capital and a $440 million secondary transaction from investors. The company specializes in acquiring and revitalizing underperforming tech br...
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Prezent Secures $30M to Acquire AI Services Firms, Starting with Founder's Other Company
Prezent has raised $30 million to pursue acquisitions, starting with Prezentium, enhancing its enterprise AI presentation platform and expanding its client base in the life sciences sector. The company differentiates itself by focusing on large corporate clients and embedding presentation enginee...
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Fahy Studios Secures $1.75M to Launch Global Games from Saudi Arabia
Fahy Studios raised $1.75 million in funding to accelerate development of hybrid-casual mobile games from Saudi Arabia. The studio is actively developing titles including RAWR, Footy Traps, and Heist Party, focusing on engaging gameplay with depth. This investment supports Saudi Arabia's growing ...
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Assort Health Raises $50M to Automate Patient Phone Calls
Assort Health raised $50 million in Series B funding, reaching a $750 million valuation, to advance AI voice agents for automating patient communication tasks like scheduling and inquiries. The funding reflects strong investor confidence in AI's role in improving operational efficiency and reduci...
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Inito's AI Antibodies Aim to Revolutionize At-Home Health Testing
Inito secured a $29 million Series B investment to expand its at-home health diagnostics platform, moving beyond fertility to broader hormone monitoring with lab-level precision. The company's core innovation is using AI to design highly sensitive synthetic antibodies, enabling more accurate exis...
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Curastory Founder Resigns Following SEC Investigation
Founder Tiffany Kelly has stepped down as CEO of Curastory following SEC allegations of revenue overstatement and misrepresentation of client numbers, replaced by Dave Dickman to lead the company forward. As part of the settlement, Kelly is barred from executive roles at fundraising companies for...
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Liberate AI Raises $50M to Transform Insurance Back Offices
Liberate secured $50 million in Series B funding, valuing the AI company at $300 million, to expand its global deployment of intelligent agents for automating insurance operations. The company develops AI systems, including the voice assistant Nicole, that handle end-to-end tasks like sales, clai...
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Cloud Provider Lambda Reportedly Prepares for IPO
Lambda, a major AI infrastructure provider, is reportedly preparing for an IPO with guidance from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi. The potential IPO, possibly in the first half of 2026, aims to leverage investor enthusiasm for AI-driven infrastructure and scalable GPU solutions. Lambda has ...
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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 by Konvoy, to streamline collaboration for large-scale creative projects. The funding will support team expansion and product improvements, focusing on AAA studios an...
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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, attracting investors like Base10 Partners and Y Combinator. The platform integrates AI throughout recruitment workflows, replacing fragmented tools with au...
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Slate Auto Hits 100K Refundable Reservations in Just 2 Weeks
Slate Auto's electric pickup truck has garnered over 100,000 refundable reservations in two weeks, highlighting strong demand for its budget-friendly EV priced below $20,000 after tax credits. The company plans to produce up to 150,000 vehicles annually by 2027 in Indiana, but industry experts wa...
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AISLE Launches AI-Powered System to Stop Zero-Day Threats
AISLE has launched an AI-native cyber reasoning system that autonomously detects, prioritizes, and fixes known and zero-day vulnerabilities, addressing the primary cause of security incidents. The platform reduces remediation time from weeks or months to days or minutes by generating ready-to-mer...
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Turn Social Tips Into Trips With Boop's New App
Boop is a travel startup that uses AI to convert personal social travel suggestions into bookable itineraries, allowing users to adopt and customize trips shared by real travelers and creators. Founded by Nancy Li Smith, the app addresses the burden of travel planning, particularly for women who ...
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19-Year-Old's YC-Backed Apolink Raises $4.3M for 24/7 Satellite Connectivity
Apolink, a space-tech startup founded by 19-year-old entrepreneur Onkar Singh Batra, secured $4.3M in seed funding (valuing the company at $45M) to develop a real-time network for eliminating satellite communication blackouts in low Earth orbit. The company’s hybrid-RF optical architecture aims t...
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Reflection raises $2B to become America's open AI lab
Reflection secured a $2 billion investment, raising its valuation to $8 billion and positioning itself as a major open-source AI competitor to firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, the company has built a team of top AI experts and infrastructure to train...
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Shield Raises $5M From a16z Crypto to Simplify Global Crypto Payments
Shield raised $5 million in seed funding, led by Giant Ventures with participation from a16z crypto and others, bringing its total funding to $7 million to expand banking partnerships and compliance infrastructure. The company, founded in 2022, pivoted in 2024 to focus on cross-border payments us...
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Jar Profits by Helping Millions Save in Gold
Jar is a profitable Indian fintech platform that enables first-time savers to invest in digital gold, leveraging cultural affinity and accessibility with investments as low as ₹10. The company has over 35 million users, with significant growth from tier-2 and tier-3 towns, and has seen revenue su...
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Germ Launches End-to-End Encryption for Bluesky Messages
**Germ is a new end-to-end encrypted messaging platform for Bluesky**, integrating with its AT Protocol and using advanced security standards like MLS and ATProto for privacy-focused chats. **Founded by Tessa Brown and Mark Xue**, Germ aims to foster healthier online interactions through private ...
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Slate EV Truck Hits 150,000 Reservations Amid Market Shift
Slate Auto's upcoming electric truck has surpassed 150,000 refundable reservations, indicating strong consumer interest for its late 2026 release, though reservations do not guarantee commercial success. The company faces the major challenge of scaling production to meet its annual target of 150,...
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Snabbit's Valuation Doubles to $180M in 5 Months
Snabbit's valuation surged to $180 million after a $30 million Series C funding round, reflecting rapid growth in India's on-demand home services market. The platform has experienced explosive growth, with daily job bookings increasing tenfold since May and a workforce of 5,000 women ensuring ser...
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ABHI & TRAY Unite to Empower Saudi Arabia's Hospitality Workforce
A new partnership between ABHI and TRAY introduces Earned Wage Access (EWA) to Saudi Arabia's food and beverage industry, allowing employees early access to earned wages and reducing reliance on high-interest loans. This collaboration supports Saudi Vision 2030 by enhancing financial inclusion an...
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Africa's Top Founder Launches AI Startup, Secures $9M Funding
Africa's most successful startup founders, Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani, launched Thunder Code, an AI-powered software testing platform, securing $9 million in seed funding shortly after inception. Thunder Code uses generative AI to automate software testing, targeting a $100 billion market wit...
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Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company for $610M
Atlassian acquires The Browser Company for $610 million in an all-cash deal to develop specialized, AI-enhanced browsers for professional productivity. The acquisition will focus on advancing the Dia browser project, with The Browser Company retaining operational independence while accelerating h...
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Openvibe: The Ultimate News and Social Media App
Openvibe merges social media and news consumption into one platform, now adding RSS feed support to follow news sites and blogs alongside social content. The app offers customizable RSS feed options, including manual additions, suggested sources, and OPML imports, with plans for a leaderboard to ...
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