Topic: company founding
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Atomicwork unveils governed AI workforce for enterprise IT
Atomicwork launched a "governed AI workforce" of "AI Coworkers" with defined roles, permissions, and budgets, managed via a central control plane with full audit trails. These AI agents automate high-volume IT, HR, and finance tasks across platforms like Slack and Teams, integrating with existing...
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Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation, challenging Amazon fulfillment
Stord raised $250 million in funding, doubling its valuation to $3 billion, led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others. Founded in 2015, the startup achieved unicorn status in 2021 and raised a $200 million round in 2025 before this latest funding. Stord offers a net...
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Fresha joins unicorn club after $80M KKR-led funding round
Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking platform, achieved unicorn status with a valuation over $1 billion after raising $80 million from KKR's Next Generation Technology Growth fund, bringing its total funding to $285 million. The platform serves over 130,000 businesses, processes 35 ...
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Beauty booking startup Fresha valued at $1 billion with KKR backing
Fresha has raised $80 million from KKR's growth equity fund, reaching a $1 billion+ valuation and signaling its transition from early-stage to a scaling business model. The platform has more than doubled since 2021, now hosting over 140,000 businesses and processing over 35 million monthly appoin...
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Dust raises $40M to move enterprise AI beyond solo use
Dust raised $40M in Series B funding to advance its "multiplayer AI" platform, which allows humans and AI agents to collaboratively access shared projects and data in a governed workspace, contrasting with single-user AI assistants. The platform reports strong adoption with over 3,000 organizatio...
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Vapi secures $50M Series B from Peak XV for enterprise voice AI
Voice-AI platform Vapi raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Peak XV, with participation from M12, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and prior investors, bringing total funding to $72 million. The platform has processed over one billion calls, with enterprise annual recurring re...
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Caterpillar Acquires Monarch Tractor Assets
Caterpillar has acquired the assets of Monarch Tractor, concluding the startup's troubled journey marked by lawsuits, a lost manufacturing partner, and a pivot to software services. Monarch, founded in 2018, raised over $200 million to build driver-optional electric tractors but faced production ...
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Slate Auto Secures $650M for Affordable EV Truck Development
Slate Auto has secured $650 million in new funding, bringing its total to $1.4 billion, to accelerate the launch of an affordable electric pickup truck by late 2026. The company is pursuing a distinct affordability-focused strategy in a challenging EV market, targeting a base price in the mid-$20...
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BlackRock Invests €50M in Finnish Quantum Firm IQM
BlackRock has invested €50 million in Finnish quantum computing firm IQM, strengthening its financial position ahead of a planned $1.8 billion SPAC merger and public listing. IQM differentiates itself by building full-stack, on-premises superconducting quantum computers, with 21 systems sold to c...
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Granola Raises $125M at $1.5B Valuation for Meeting AI
London-based AI startup Granola has achieved a $1.5 billion valuation after a $125 million Series C funding round, a sixfold increase from its valuation less than a year ago. The company's core product is a discreet meeting intelligence tool that records audio locally to generate transcripts and ...
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The Reality of Space Dogfighting: One Company's Mission
Future space conflict is expected to be a slow, strategic contest of positioning and intelligence over weeks or months, not fast-paced battles. True Anomaly's Jackal spacecraft is a highly agile, refrigerator-sized platform designed for close surveillance and maneuverability in orbit. The company...
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Rox AI Hits $1.2B Valuation in Major Funding Round
Rox AI, a startup building autonomous AI agents for sales, achieved a $1.2 billion valuation in a major funding round led by General Catalyst, projecting significant revenue growth. The company's platform integrates with existing sales software to deploy AI agents that autonomously monitor accoun...
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Tropic Secures $105M to Expand Gene-Edited Banana Production
The global banana industry, valued at $25 billion, faces an existential threat from the incurable Panama Disease TR4, which specifically endangers the Cavendish variety that dominates exports. Agricultural biotech firm Tropic has raised $105 million to scale its non-GMO gene-editing platform, whi...
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Another Co-Founder Leaves Elon Musk's xAI
Co-founder Tony Wu has resigned from Elon Musk's xAI, continuing a trend of senior leadership departures that raises questions about the company's internal dynamics and strategy. Wu's departure aligns with a broader movement of AI talent toward smaller, agile teams, and his exit follows other co-...
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LiveKit Hits $1B Valuation After OpenAI Partnership
LiveKit secured a $100 million investment at a $1 billion valuation, reflecting high demand for infrastructure powering AI-driven voice and video applications. The company pivoted from an open-source project to a successful enterprise by offering a managed, cloud-hosted service to meet large corp...
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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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Chai Discovery Raises $130M Series B at $1.3B Valuation
Chai Discovery secured $130 million in Series B funding, reaching a $1.3 billion valuation, with investment led by top venture capital firms. The company develops AI foundation models to predict molecular interactions and accelerate drug discovery, notably in *de novo* antibody design. Its latest...
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Runware Secures $50M to Simplify AI Image & Video Creation for Devs
Runware secured $50 million in Series A funding to simplify real-time AI media creation for developers, with its platform already powering over 5 billion creations for more than 100,000 users. The company differentiates itself with a unified API and custom AI inference infrastructure, offering co...
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From Nothing to Hoto and Fanttik: The Origin Story
Hoto was founded by Lidan Liu to reimagine home tools with a focus on aesthetics and user experience, starting under Xiaomi's incubator program before launching its own brand and achieving significant sales growth. Fanttik emerged from Aukey's restructuring after an Amazon ban, rebranding to focu...
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Teradar Secures $150M for Sensor That Outperforms Lidar and Radar
Teradar raised $150 million in Series B funding to advance its solid-state terahertz sensor technology, which combines radar resilience with lidar-like high-resolution imaging for long-range environmental perception in adverse weather. The company is collaborating with five major U.S. and Europea...
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