Startup

Source: AI search engine startup Genspark raised a $100M Series A at a $530M valuation and currently has over 2M MAUs; it raised a $60M seed in June 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-22 Startup AI

AI is changing how Silicon Valley builds startups (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-21 Startup AI

AI hiring startup Mercor, founded by 21-year-old Thiel fellow Brendan Foody, raised $100M led by Felicis at a $2B valuation, up from $250M in September 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-21 Startup AI

An interview with Accel's Harry Nelis, who led early investments in Zepz and Kayak, on how the European startup industry has changed, the AI boom, and more (t.co)
2025-2-20 Europe Interview Startup AI

AheadComputing, a startup co-founded by former Intel execs and engineers that aims to build RISC-V chip technology, raised a $21.5 seed led by Eclipse Ventures (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-20 Intel Startup

Crunchbase launches AI tools to predict where startups are heading, including funding, acquisitions, and IPOs, based on its 17 years of startup data (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-20 IPO Startup AI

French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 France Startup

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, announces new startup with focus on AI alignment (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-19 Startup AI

HP acquires Humane, the startup behind the Star Trek-style AI Pin, for $116 million (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-19 Startup AI

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

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