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UK filings: Stability AI co-founder and ex-CEO Emad Mostaque has given up his controlling shares in the startup; Mostaque owned 75%+, per previous filings (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Startup AI

Barcelona-based brain-computer interface startup Inbrain, which plans to work with graphene, raised $50M led by Imec.xpand and plans a trial of 10 patients (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Startup

Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful startups like Wiz but faces ethical questions about a profit-sharing program with industry execs (www.forbes.com)
25 days ago Startup

Sierra, an AI startup co-founded by OpenAI board chairman and former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, raised $175M, valuing it at $4.5B, up from ~$1B previously (www.reuters.com)
25 days ago Startup AI Salesforce

Japan has too many startups that IPO too early amid a lack of late-stage funding, hurting unicorn ambitions; data: funding is set to fall ~33% from 2022 to 2024 (t.co)
26 days ago Japan IPO Startup

‘These are like AI employees… they will impact job market, but not how we are thinking': Indian AI agents startup founder (indianexpress.com)
26 days ago India Startup AI Job Market

Finix, a “payments infrastructure” startup that became a payment processor like Stripe in 2023, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $208M (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago Startup

Journals With High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged By Science-Integrity Startup (science.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Startup

General Catalyst raised $8B, the most by a US VC since March 2022, and will put $4.5B in its core funds, $1.5B in creating startups, and $2B in other businesses (t.co)
29 days ago Startup

Secondhand fashion site Vinted raised €340M led by TPG at a €5B valuation, as the profitable startup plans to expand beyond clothes into electronics and more (t.co)
29 days ago Startup

Document: Guangzhou, China-based self-driving startup WeRide files for a Nasdaq IPO, planning to raise up to $119.4M (www.reuters.com)
29 days ago China IPO Startup

Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone startup Aerodome, sources say for $300M+; both are a16z-backed and have raised $680M+ and $28M respectively (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Startup Drone

India's Supreme Court strikes down a tribunal order that let Byju's settle debts with India's cricket board, pushing the edtech startup firmly toward insolvency (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago India Startup

Accel: Klarna alumni have founded 62 new startups, more than any $1B+ European fintech startup; Revolut alumni founded 49, and Wise and N26 alumni had 33 each (www.cnbc.com)
2024-10-22 Europe Fintech Startup

Document: Chinese startup Horizon Robotics, which makes autonomous driving software and hardware, raised $696M in a Hong Kong IPO, before its October 24 listing (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-22 China Hong Kong IPO Startup Robot

Dow Jones and New York Post Sue AI Startup Perplexity, Alleging 'Massive' Copyright Infringement (yro.slashdot.org)
2024-10-22 Startup AI Dow Jones New York

Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI startup Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement and say it hasn't replied to a July 2024 letter about copyright issues (variety.com)
2024-10-22 Startup AI Dow Jones New York

Tracxn: Indian health tech-related startups raised $3.7B since 2022, about half of the $7.4B raised in the sector across the Asia Pacific region (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-21 India Asia Startup

Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup: Report (indianexpress.com)
2024-10-19 Startup AI

Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models (www.reuters.com)
2024-10-19 Startup AI

US Startup Charging Couples To 'Screen Embryos For IQ' (science.slashdot.org)
2024-10-19 Startup

A Startup Once Valued at $22 Billion is Now Worth Nothing (news.slashdot.org)
2024-10-19 Startup

Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively “worth zero”, and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Startup

A look at Dippy, an AI companion startup that lets users see the reasoning behind their chatbot's replies, claims to have 50K DAUs, and raised a $2.1M pre-seed (www.wired.com)
2024-10-18 Startup AI chatbot

Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire startup Bridge, a provider of infrastructure for crypto stablecoins, for $1B; Bridge raised $58M (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-18 Startup

Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine, its Shine app, Google News, Yahoo, selling to Verizon, Yahoo Weather, feminism, being a geek, and more (www.wired.com)
2024-10-17 Google Startup AI Yahoo

Enterprise data security startup Cyera buys data loss startup Trail Security for $162M in cash and stock; sources: Cyera is raising $200M+ at a ~$3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 Startup

Accel: VC funding for cloud startups in the US, Europe, and Israel to rise 27% YoY to $79.2B in 2024, with 40% of the funding going to generative AI startups (www.cnbc.com)
2024-10-17 Europe Israel Startup AI

Startup Can Identify Deepfake Video In Real Time (it.slashdot.org)
2024-10-17 Startup

A look at a cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London that collectively have 500+ startups with at least $100M of annual revenue (www.wired.com)
2024-10-16 Europe Startup London

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