Topic: startup valuation
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Investors Flock to Lovable: A Market Darling
Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding startup, has attracted significant investor interest with unsolicited offers valuing it over $4 billion, despite recently closing a $200 million funding round. The company, led by CEO Anton Osika, has declined further investment offers and is focusing on growth, hav...
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SoftBank, Nvidia in Talks to Triple Skild AI's Value to $14B
SoftBank and Nvidia are reportedly in advanced talks to lead a funding round exceeding $1 billion into Skild AI, which would value the robotics software startup at around $14 billion. Skild AI is developing a foundational, robot-agnostic software model called Skild Brain, designed to serve as a v...
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VCs Crown AI Winners Early with 'Kingmaking' Strategy
Venture capital firms are increasingly using a "kingmaking" strategy, deploying massive early funding to create a perceived market leader in AI, often before startups have significant revenue. This accelerated investment pattern is evident in sectors like AI enterprise software, where rivals secu...
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Synthesia Reaches $4 Billion Valuation in Employee Stock Sale
Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E round, doubling its valuation to $4 billion and surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue from major enterprise clients. The company is facilitating a structured secondary stock sale for employees at the new valuation, allowing early team ...
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Harvey AI Acquires Hexus Amid Legal Tech Competition Surge
Harvey, a legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus to enhance its product development for corporate legal teams, integrating Hexus's entire staff and expertise in enterprise AI tools. The acquisition follows Harvey's recent $160 million funding round, which valued the company at $8 billion and brough...
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RadixArk Spins Out With $400M Valuation Amid AI Inference Boom
RadixArk, the commercial company behind the open-source AI inference tool SGLang, has raised funding at a valuation of approximately $400 million, reflecting a trend of open-source projects becoming high-value startups. The company focuses on optimizing AI inference processing to make models run ...
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Emergent's $70M Funding Triples Valuation to $300M
Emergent, an AI-powered development startup, raised $70 million in Series B funding, tripling its valuation to $300 million and signaling strong investor confidence in the AI-assisted coding sector. The platform enables entrepreneurs and small businesses to build applications without large engine...
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FirstClub's Premium Strategy Defies India's Speed Obsession, Hits $120M Valuation
FirstClub has achieved a $120 million valuation by prioritizing quality over speed, securing $23 million in Series A funding led by Accel and RTP Global. The startup targets India's top 10% of households with curated, exclusive products and a personalized shopping experience, resulting in high av...
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Cluely Raises $15M From a16z to Help Users 'Cheat on Everything'
Cluely raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, following a $5.3 million seed round, with an estimated $120 million post-money valuation. The startup, co-founded by Roy Lee, gained notoriety for controversial AI tools and marketing stunts, including deceptive tactics in ...
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Sequoia Raises $950M for Early-Stage Startups
Sequoia Capital has launched two new funds totaling $950 million to focus on early-stage investing, including a $750 million fund for Series A rounds and a $200 million seed fund, maintaining its strategy of supporting visionary founders from the start. The firm is refocusing on its foundational ...
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Paid AI raises $21M seed to bill clients only for results
Manny Medina's new startup Paid has raised $33.3 million in total funding, achieving a valuation over $100 million, with its seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Paid introduces a results-based billing platform for AI agents, allowing developers to charge clients based on the tangible v...
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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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Horizon3.ai Secures $100M in New Funding Round
Horizon3.ai raised $100 million in its latest funding round, with $73 million confirmed, highlighting strong investor confidence in automated security solutions amid rising cyber threats. The funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), could value Horizon3.ai at over $750 million, with...
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Meta Acquires AI Startup Manus in Major Tech Deal
Meta Platforms has acquired the Singapore-based AI startup Manus for $2 billion to integrate its advanced, revenue-generating AI technology into its core social media platforms. Manus, despite launching only eight months ago, had achieved significant traction with millions of users and over $100 ...
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Swap Secures $100M Just 6 Months After $40M Round
Swap Commerce, an e-commerce tech firm, secured a new $100 million investment from DST Global and Iconiq, signaling strong investor confidence just months after a $40 million round. The company's AI-powered platform helps brands, particularly in luxury clothing, manage international sales by simp...
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Atlassian Acquired The Browser Company Behind Dia and Arc
Atlassian has acquired The Browser Company for $610 million to integrate its AI-powered Dia browser with Atlassian's suite of work tools, enhancing workflow efficiency. The Dia browser uses conversational AI to interact with applications and transfer data, and will now prioritize workplace functi...
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OpenAI Acquires Health Tech Startup Torch for $100M
OpenAI has acquired health tech startup Torch for about $100 million to bolster its new ChatGPT Health service, integrating Torch's team and technology. Torch's core innovation is a "medical memory for AI" system that consolidates fragmented medical data from various sources into a unified, AI-ac...
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US Approves Google's $32 Billion Wiz Acquisition
Google's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz has passed its U.S. antitrust review, a major step toward finalizing one of the largest tech deals, though the process is not yet complete. Wiz initially rejected a $23 billion offer in 2024, believing in its potential for greater independent growth, but ac...
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Yann LeCun's AI 'World Model' Startup Targets $5 Billion Valuation
Yann LeCun has launched the startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), which is seeking €500 million in funding at a €3 billion valuation, reflecting high investor interest in projects led by top AI researchers. AMI will focus on developing "world model AI," a system designed to understand envi...
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