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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup that she's leading, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist (www.axios.com)
2025-2-19 Startup AI

How militaries and startups like North.io use AI to analyze data and deploy autonomous underwater vehicles to safeguard deep-sea pipelines and cables (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-18 Startup AI

Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence is raising $1B+ led by Greenoaks Capital Partners, which plans to invest $500M, at a valuation of $30B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-18 Startup

Sources: SoftBank-backed eFishery, Indonesia's high-profile agritech startup, cuts over 1,000 jobs, or ~90% of its workforce, and weighs a potential liquidation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Startup Indonesia

Identity security startup SGNL, which lets enterprises enforce policies in real-time for privileged access to systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Brightmind (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15 Startup

Fal.ai, a Turkish startup specializing in AI-generated media for enterprise use, raised a $49M Series B led by Notable Capital, taking its total funding to $72M (tech.eu)
2025-2-15 Startup AI

Sources: humanoid robot startup Figure is in talks to raise $1.5B led by Align Ventures and Parkway VC at a $39.5B valuation, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Startup Robot

Filing: Anthropic asks a court to nix a DOJ remedy that would block Google from investing in AI startups, saying it would harm Anthropic and the competition (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Google Startup AI

Hedge Fund Startup That Replaced Analysts With AI Beats the Market (slashdot.org)
2025-2-15 Startup AI Hedge Fund

'The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate' (slashdot.org)
2025-2-15 Startup

Texas-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised a $350M Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory and plans a series of pilot programs in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2025-2-13 Startup Robot Texas

Indian startup Lucidity, which helps enterprises optimize their cloud storage, raised a $21M Series A led by WestBridge, after a $5.3M seed in September 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 India Startup

NATO Innovation Fund and Dealroom: investments in EU defense tech and related startups rose 24% in 2024 to $5.2B, outpacing AI VC growth in the past two years (t.co)
2025-2-12 Startup AI

Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $160M Series E led by Blue Pool Capital at a $3.3B valuation; CEO Hosam Arab expects an IPO within 18 months (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-12 IPO Startup

US chip startup Groq says it has secured a $1.5B commitment from Saudi Arabia to expand the delivery of its AI chips to the country over the course of this year (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-12 Startup AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Cybersecurity startup Andesite raised an additional $23M seed, bringing its total funding to $38.25M, and unveils a security operations center product (www.nextgov.com)
2025-2-12 Startup

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US, filed in 2020 against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence (www.wired.com)
2025-2-12 Startup AI Intelligence

Sources: Meta is in talks to acquire South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI, which has raised ~$115M since its 2017 founding; the deal could close this month (www.forbes.com)
2025-2-12 Korea Startup AI

French startup Mistral launches mobile AI assistant ‘Le Chat' for iOS and Android (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-7 Android IOS France Mobile Startup AI

Customer service software startup Sprinklr cuts 500 jobs, ~15% of its workforce, citing weak business performance; C-level staff remain unaffected (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Startup

Sources: OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's stealth startup; he left Anthropic after joining the startup in August 2024 (fortune.com)
2025-2-7 Startup

Analysis: European AI startups raised $8B in 2024, with 70% going to seed to Series B rounds, led by startups in the UK, France, and Germany (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Germany France Europe Startup AI

Bengaluru-based payments startup Cashfree raised a $53M Series C led by Krafton, bringing its total funding to nearly $100M, a source says at a $700M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup

Robotics startup Figure is exiting its Feb. 2024 OpenAI deal, which aimed to develop AI models for robots, to focus on in-house AI after a “major breakthrough” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup AI Robot

HR software startup Deel completes a sale of $300M secondary shares, bringing General Catalyst on as an investor, and says its ARR grew 70% YoY to $800M in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup

Toronto-based programmatic ad startup StackAdapt raised $235M led by Teachers' Venture Growth, after raising $300M from Summit Partners in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup Toronto

Self-driving truck startup Waabi partners with Volvo to develop and deploy autonomous trucks, starting with pilots in Texas and a launch in late 2025 or 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 Startup Volvo Texas

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal invests $230M in his Indian AI startup Krutrim, and plans to raise $1.15B from outside investors by 2026, to build local AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 India Startup AI

French startup Riot, which educates staff about cybersecurity risks, raised a $30M Series B, a source says at a $170M valuation, and had $10M in 2024 revenue (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 France Startup

How Israeli startups like Xtend are helping the country's war effort, with ~50% of anti-drone tech used since the October 7 attacks coming from startups (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-2 Israel Startup Drone

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