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Amazon Doubles Investment in AI Startup Anthropic To $8 Billion (slashdot.org)
8 hours ago Amazon Startup AI

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August; it has raised $1.35B since June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
9 hours ago India Startup

Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources: the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Startup

French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago France Startup AI

Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 (en.globes.co.il)
2 days ago Israel Startup

Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO (t.co)
2 days ago Europe IPO Startup Single Market

Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip (siliconangle.com)
3 days ago Startup

The UK CMA clears Google's partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained “material influence” over the AI startup, following a formal probe (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Google Startup AI

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Europe IPO Startup

AI startup Perplexity adds shopping features as search competition tightens (indianexpress.com)
3 days ago Startup AI

BitSight, the cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4B, acquires Cybersixgill, which gathers threat intelligence data from the dark web, for $115M (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Startup Intelligence Darknet

Estonian ride-hailing and food delivery startup Bolt says it hit €2B in annual revenue and plans a 2025 IPO; Bolt had an $8B+ valuation in January 2022 (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago IPO Startup

PitchBook: tech as a percentage of total private equity deal value was 28.3% in Q3, up from 18.7% in Q2, as VC firms and tech startups turn to PE for liquidity (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Private Equity Startup Venture Capital Equity

PitchBook: Q3 2024 crypto VC funding fell 31.3% YoY to $1.7B and VC deals fell 25.3% YoY to 392, as infrastructure startups continued to draw investors' focus (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Startup

Sources: Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder is in advanced talks to buy Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway; Just Eat bought Grubhub in 2021 in a $7B+ deal (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Startup

Red Hat is Acquiring AI Optimization Startup Neural Magic (linux.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Startup AI

SoftBank reports Q2 net income of ~$7.7B and a Vision Fund gain of ~$2.42B, driven by strong Indian startup IPOs and valuation gains in Coupang and Didi (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago India IPO Startup

Q&A with Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley on his startup Hopscotch Labs, which uses AI and headphones to give information as a person walks by a location (crazystupidtech.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

Source: AI coding assistant startup Anysphere has received unsolicited offers valuing the company at as much as $2.5B from Benchmark, Index, a16z, and others (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones (www.forbes.com)
14 days ago Trump Startup AI

With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump's orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government (www.washingtonpost.com)
14 days ago Trump Startup Elon Musk

Sources: Saudi Arabia plans a new AI project to rival the UAE's tech hub, backed by $50B to $100B to invest in data centers, startups, new talent, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Startup AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Lyft partners with autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility to launch cars in Atlanta in 2025, and self-driving car company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Startup Autonomous Car

In a lawsuit, the US FTC accuses fintech startup Dave of misleading struggling borrowers about its cash advances' terms, charging undisclosed fees, and more (www.semafor.com)
16 days ago Fintech Startup

Shenzhen-based autonomous driving startup DeepRoute.ai raised $100M from an unnamed Chinese automaker, and plans to launch 10+ models with clients in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago China Startup AI Shenzhen

Interviews with Quantum Machines' CTO and other executives on the startup's Nvidia partnership to use ML to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Startup Nvidia Quantum

Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more (www.nytimes.com)
19 days ago U.S. Startup

Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas for AI startups, saying “regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs” (blogs.microsoft.com)
20 days ago Microsoft Startup AI

Tel Aviv-based, enterprise-focused cybersecurity startup Noma emerges from stealth with $32M in funding, including a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Startup

The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Italy Startup AI Nvidia

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