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Foxmont and BCG report: Philippine startups raised a record $1.12B in 2024, up 16.7% YoY, with foreign investment rising to 52.5%, but regulatory hurdles remain (asia.nikkei.com)
1 day ago Startup Philippines

AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $60M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, valuing the company at $550M, and says it makes $15M+ in ARR (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M for a new fund to lead more Series A rounds at AI startups, a jump from the $150M fund it closed in February 2024 (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Startup Robot Venture Capital

HR software provider Workday agrees to acquire Sana, an AI startup specializing in workplace tools, for $1.1B; the transaction is set to close in Workday's Q4 (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Startup AI 4Q

Filing: cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope raised its IPO price range to $17-$19 per share, up from $15-$17, aiming to raise $908.2M, up from $812.6M (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago IPO Startup

Robinhood Plans To Launch a Startups Fund Open To All Retail Investors (news.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Retail Startup

Robinhood has filed an application with the SEC to launch a new publicly traded fund called “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” that will hold shares of startups (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Startup

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (pulse2.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally (www.scmp.com)
5 days ago Alibaba Startup AI

Some 20-somethings flocking to SF to build trillion-dollar AI startups say no to booze, sleep, and fun as they strive to be, or appear to be, the most obsessed (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

Israeli chip monitoring startup ProteanTecs raised a $51M Series D led by IAG, with participation from Arm, Samsung, and more, taking its total funding to $250M (www.calcalistech.com)
7 days ago Israel Samsung Startup

Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, to build a 1M-qubit computer (t.co)
7 days ago Startup Quantum

ASML's €1.3B investment in Mistral gives the French startup capital and credibility, but it must prove it can survive in a US- and China-dominated AI industry (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago China France Startup AI

How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Source: Meta signed a contract worth $140M+ to use technology from AI image startup Black Forest Labs, committing $35M in the first year and $105M in the second (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (www.wired.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

Source: Amazon took a stake in Colombian delivery startup Rappi via a $25M convertible note, entitling it to buy up to 12% via warrants if milestones are met (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Amazon Startup

AI audio startup ElevenLabs launches a tender offer to let staff sell up to $100M in stock at a $6.6B valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in January 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

Quantum computing startup Infleqtion agrees to merge with a Michael Klein-led blank-check company, giving it a $1.8B pre-money valuation and $540M in funding (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Startup Quantum

Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, setting an AI copyright floor price (spyglass.org)
9 days ago Startup AI

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (t.co)
10 days ago Europe Startup

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (www.cnbc.com)
10 days ago Alibaba Startup AI Robot Shenzhen

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (www.washingtonpost.com)
10 days ago Startup Robot

Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense (t.co)
10 days ago Europe Fintech Startup AI

OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup whose tool lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Startup AI Apple

WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; the startup, founded in 2019, develops the Dia browser, now in beta (www.cnbc.com)
13 days ago Startup Browser Atlassian

Israeli startup Sola, which develops AI-based low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers (www.resiliencemedia.co)
13 days ago Israel Startup AI

At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Samsung and startups like Doma are expected to showcase how AI could make smart homes more intuitive (www.theverge.com)
14 days ago Google Amazon Samsung Startup AI

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