Topic: tech startup
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Startup trades free home cleaning for robot training data
MicroAGI, a German tech startup, offers New Yorkers free home cleaning through its Shift app in exchange for recording cleaners' movements to train AI-powered household robots. The company claims it anonymizes all footage by blurring faces and personal information using on-device machine learning...
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Tem Secures $75M to Transform Energy Markets With AI
Tem, a London-based startup, uses an AI-powered energy transaction engine to secure lower electricity prices for businesses, promising savings of up to 30% and attracting over 2,600 UK customers. The company recently raised $75 million in Series B funding, valuing it at over $300 million, to fund...
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Ex-Uber Eats Founder Raises $14M to Organize Doctors' WhatsApp in LatAm
Caroline Merin, a former Uber Eats and Rappi executive, founded Leona Health to address the inefficient use of WhatsApp for patient communication by doctors in Latin America. The startup's AI-powered platform integrates with WhatsApp to organize messages, prioritize urgent health concerns, and au...
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Naware's Chemical-Free Weed Killer Tech Could Transform Lawn Care
Naware, founded by Mark Boysen, has developed a chemical-free weed control system that uses steam, inspired by a personal family tragedy linked to suspected chemical contamination. The technology combines industrial-grade steam generation with AI-powered computer vision to identify and target wee...
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ElevenLabs in talks for $22bn valuation, doubling February price
ElevenLabs is in early talks for an employee share sale that could value the company at $22 billion, nearly double its $11 billion valuation from February. The employee tender offer would allow staff to cash out equity, reflecting growing confidence in the company's trajectory amid surging demand...
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Quantum Computing Founder Chad Rigetti Returns
Sygaldry Technologies, founded by quantum computing veteran Chad Rigetti, has raised $139 million, including a $105 million Series A round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The company is developing specialized quantum-classical hybrid servers to accelerate AI workloads, targeting a global AI ...
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Give Your AI Agents a Shared Memory with Reload
The AI landscape is shifting from tools to collaborative teammates, driving demand for management platforms like **Reload**, which centralizes oversight of digital employees and recently launched its product Epic with $2.275M in funding. **Reload's platform addresses a key problem: AI agents lack...
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T1 Phone PR Firm Cuts Ties With Trump Mobile
Trump Mobile has ended its relationship with its PR agency, the Poplar Group, closing off a key communication channel. The Poplar Group had represented Trump Mobile since June 2025, and its founding partner provided one of the last official statements regarding the T1 phone's development. Without...
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Mach Industries hits $1.8bn as Pentagon drone push lifts defence-tech valuations
Mach Industries, a three-year-old defence-tech startup founded by a 22-year-old MIT dropout, reached a $1.8 billion valuation after closing a $300 million Series C funding round, driven by Pentagon demand for drone technology. The company, led by CEO Ethan Thornton, has become a key supplier of n...
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Amazon Buys Rivr, Maker of Stair-Climbing Delivery Robots
Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics company, to address the "last-mile" delivery challenge by using its autonomous robots that can navigate stairs to reach doorsteps directly. Rivr's CEO stated the acquisition will accelerate their vision of "General Physical AI," leveraging Amazon's resou...
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Fi Shuts Down Banking Services, Shifts Focus
Fi is discontinuing its core banking services, directing customers to access their Federal Bank savings accounts directly through the bank's own app, while assuring all funds remain secure and accessible. The well-funded neobank, which served millions, is pivoting its core business away from cons...
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This AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Questions
ChatTJB is an art project by Tucker Bryant, a former Google project manager, where he personally answers user prompts instead of using AI, despite the billboard's joke that "AI" stands for "average individual." The service gained traction after a $6,000 San Francisco billboard went live in late J...
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Foodforecast Secures €8M to Revolutionize Food Industry with AI
Foodforecast, a Cologne startup, has raised €8 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven platform across Europe, aiming to reduce waste for ultra-fresh, perishable food products. The company's technology replaces manual, error-prone demand forecasting with data-driven predictions, helpi...
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Amazon Bets Big on Wearable AI With This $50 Gadget
Amazon is launching a new, affordable wearable device that continuously listens and records to transcribe conversations and compile task lists, aiming to be a passive organizational tool. This represents a strategic push to embed AI more intimately into daily life, with plans to enhance the devic...
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Skana Robotics Enables Underwater Robot Fleet Communication
A new AI-enhanced system enables submerged autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to communicate and coordinate over long distances without surfacing, a critical breakthrough for covert operations. The technology prioritizes reliable and explainable decision-making using older, predictable AI algo...
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