Topic: startup founders
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Humans& AI Startup, Founded by Ex-Anthropic, xAI, Google Staff, Raises $480M Seed
Humans&, a new AI startup, has raised a landmark $480 million in seed funding, achieving a $4.48 billion valuation and attracting major investors like Nvidia and Jeff Bezos. The company's core philosophy is to develop AI as a collaborative tool for humans, focusing on areas like multi-agent reinf...
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Capital One Buys Brex at a Discount, Early Investors Reap Rewards
Capital One acquired fintech platform Brex for $5.15 billion, a significant discount from its peak $12.3 billion valuation, delivering a major financial victory for its earliest venture capital investors. The deal highlights a competitive divergence, as rival Ramp achieved a much higher valuation...
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Juicebox Raises $30M to Transform Hiring with AI Search
Juicebox, founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total funding to $36 million to advance its AI-driven talent search engine. The company's AI tool, PeopleGPT, uses large language models to understand natural lan...
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Retro: Time-Travel Through Your Camera Roll With Friends
The Retro app's new Rewind feature transforms a user's personal camera roll into a private, tactile interface for rediscovering old photos, offering a solo journey through personal visual history. It addresses modern photo overload by serving as a deliberate counterpoint to algorithm-driven feeds...
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