Topic: series a funding
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Focused Energy raises $240M to scale laser fusion tech
German fusion startup Focused Energy raised a $240 million oversubscribed Series A led by RWE, bringing total funding to roughly $500 million, to advance its laser-powered inertial confinement fusion technology toward commercial viability. The company plans to build its first demonstration system...
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Gizmo AI learning app hits 13M users with $22M funding
Gizmo, an AI-powered learning platform, has surpassed 13 million global users since 2021, demonstrating rapid growth in the competitive edtech market. The company has secured $22 million in Series A funding to expand its team and focus on the U.S. college market, enhancing its AI and engineering ...
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Ethos raises $22.75M to fix AI’s hiring problems
Ethos, a London-based startup founded by ex-DeepMind and McKinsey professionals, raised a $22.75 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to address the collapse of trust in hiring caused by generative AI, which has made it easy for candidates to appear qualified but difficult for employers to...
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Rocapine raises $13m to build healthy app habits
Rocapine, a Paris-based venture studio, secured $13 million in Series A funding to develop wellness apps that use gaming techniques to minimize screen time, aiming for "time well spent" rather than maximizing engagement. Within nine months of launch, the studio achieved $6 million in annual recur...
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Evotrex raises $30M for an RV that charges itself
Evotrex secured a $30 million Series A funding round to manufacture and sell its first hybrid RV travel trailers, targeting production of roughly 1,000 units annually, with total capital raised reaching $46 million. The startup's hybrid RV uses an extended range electric vehicle (EREV) system, co...
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Lace Secures $40M for Helium-Based Chip Fabrication Tech
A Norwegian startup called Lace Lithography has raised $40 million to develop a novel semiconductor manufacturing technique that uses an ultra-fine helium atom beam, promising to etch features much smaller than current EUV lithography. The company's technology aims to disrupt the market dominated...
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Gimlet Labs' AI Inference Solution Is Elegant and Efficient
Gimlet Labs raised $80 million to address the AI inference bottleneck with a multi-silicon cloud platform that orchestrates workloads across diverse hardware, aiming to boost efficiency from typical 15-30% utilization. Their software partitions AI tasks across CPUs, accelerators, and memory syste...
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Orion Security Secures $32M for AI-Powered Data Loss Prevention
Orion Security raised $32 million in Series A funding, led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from IBM and existing investors, bringing its total funding to $38 million to accelerate platform development and market expansion. The company's platform rejects traditional, policy-heavy da...
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Lululemon invests in Syntetica's $30M nylon recycling round
Syntetica, a French startup, closed a $30 million Series A round to scale its nylon recycling technology, with Lululemon joining investors including Victoria's Secret, Etam, and MAS Holdings. The company's process recycles Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from mixed textile waste, aiming to solve a key circ...
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neuroClues Raises €10M for Parkinson's Diagnostic Tech
neuroClues has secured €10 million in Series A funding to advance its portable, AI-powered eye-tracking headset, designed to detect neurological diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's years before symptoms appear. The device captures high-speed infrared images of eye movements to provide objec...
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Tsuga raises $35M for private cloud AI observability
Paris-based startup Tsuga, founded by former Datadog veterans, raised $35 million in Series A funding to challenge per-byte observability pricing, as AI workloads cause telemetry volumes to explode. Tsuga deploys observability software inside the customer's environment, eliminating per-byte inges...
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Limitless Labs raises $20M to bring AI to factory floors
Israeli startup Limitless Labs raised $20 million in Series A funding to develop an AI agent for CNC machining, which can cut programming time by half by automatically selecting tools and generating machine programs from 3D design files. The company addresses a critical manufacturing labor gap, w...
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Startup’s super metals target military drones, luxury watches, and knives
Foundation Alloy uses a specialized milling process that smashes metal powders together instead of melting them, creating custom alloys with unique properties while using roughly ten times less energy than traditional methods. The startup has raised a $22 million Series A round led by Voyager Ven...
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ATMOS Space Cargo raises €25.7M for Europe’s first orbital return service
ATMOS Space Cargo has secured €25.7 million to deploy three PHOENIX 2 re-entry capsules, launch a defense division, and develop a next-generation one-tonne payload capsule. The PHOENIX 2 vehicles will provide controlled re-entry and recovery services for commercial and government clients, filling...
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Upscale AI in $2B Funding Talks, Report Says
Upscale AI is reportedly negotiating a $180-$200 million funding round, its third in seven months, which would value the pre-revenue startup at around $2 billion. The company is generating investor excitement by developing a full-stack solution of custom AI chips and infrastructure, aiming to sol...
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VisioLab Secures $11M to Expand AI Checkout for Stadiums and Campuses
A German startup, VisioLab, has secured $11 million in Series A funding to scale its AI-powered, camera-based self-checkout system for high-traffic venues. The system identifies items without barcodes in under ten seconds, eliminating individual scanning and is already deployed at the Amway Cente...
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Sequen Raises $16M to Power TikTok-Style Personalization for Brands
Sequen, founded by former Etsy executive Zoë Weil, raised $16 million in Series A funding to provide advanced, real-time AI personalization technology to consumer brands, aiming to democratize capabilities used by tech giants. Its core technology is a "large event model" that analyzes continuous ...
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CopilotKit nabs $27M to help developers deploy app-native AI agents
CopilotKit founders argue that traditional chatbot interfaces fail to leverage AI's full potential, instead advocating for "app-native AI agents" that embed directly within applications to display interactive user interfaces rather than just text, enabled by their open-source AG-UI protocol. The ...
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Spoor's Bird Monitoring AI Software Takes Flight
Spoor's AI-powered software uses cameras to detect and identify birds with 96% accuracy, helping industries like wind farms minimize avian collisions through operational adjustments. The technology addresses a regulatory gap by replacing outdated manual monitoring, and its applications are expand...
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Neutron's Pad Opens, SpaceX's Falcon 9 Cleared for Launch
Congress opposes the Trump administration's plan to retire the Space Launch System rocket after Artemis III, signaling a potential conflict over NASA's deep space exploration future. Israel successfully launched the Ofek 19 satellite, an advanced synthetic aperture radar observation satellite, us...
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