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Salesforce buys Doti AI for $100M; the Israeli startup raised $7M and its Work AI tool lets enterprises securely access and use internal knowledge in real time (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-11-14 Israel Startup AI Salesforce

Dresden-based chip startup Ferroelectric Memory raised €100M, including €77M equity led by HV Capital and DTCF, to commercialize energy-saving memory chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-14 Energy Startup Equity

UK-based BNPL startup Zilch raised $176.7M in equity and debt led by KKCG at the same $2B valuation as its 2022 funding, after raising $127M in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-13 Startup Equity

AI coding startup Cursor raised $2.3B co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B valuation, after raising a $900M Series C at a $9.9B valuation in June (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-13 Startup AI

Indian investment app Groww raised ~$748M in its Indian IPO, closing up 29% and giving it a ~$9B market cap; Groww is the first Indian YC-backed startup to IPO (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-13 India IPO Startup

Maryland-based Forterra, an autonomous military vehicle software startup founded in 2002, raised $238M, including $50M in debt, at a $1B+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-12 Startup

Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride plans to go public in H1 2026 via a blank-check merger at a $1.8B valuation and reports ~$43M in 2024 revenue (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-12 Startup

Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans To Exit To Launch Startup (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-12 Startup AI

Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B (fortune.com)
2025-11-12 Startup Coinbase

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-12 Startup Browser

Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-12 Israel Startup AI

Microsoft plans to spend $10B to build a data center in the Portuguese town of Sines in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-11 Microsoft Startup

Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (t.co)
2025-11-11 Startup AI

Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-11 Startup AI Decentralize

Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-11-11 Startup

Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-7 China Startup

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government “backstop” for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word “muddied the point” (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-7 Startup

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-7 Startup AI Zuckerberg

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs releases BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store (www.engadget.com)
2025-11-6 Startup AI

Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (www.ft.com)
2025-11-6 Startup

Sources: data center startup Crusoe is arranging an employee share sale involving ~$120M worth of shares that values it at ~$13B, up from $10B+ just weeks ago (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-6 Startup

A look at Bret Taylor's AI agent startup Sierra as it launches new products; source: Sierra is on track to exceed $100M in annualized revenue by January 2026 (www.forbes.com)
2025-11-6 Startup AI

A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks (www.latimes.com)
2025-11-5 Startup AI Robot

A look at Fermi, a startup co-founded by ex-US Energy Secretary Rick Perry that aims to build one of the world's largest datacenter campuses in Texas by 2038 (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-5 Energy Startup Texas

Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-3 Startup AI

Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal later this year or early 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-1 Startup Coinbase

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 55%+ (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-1 Startup AI

Universal Partners With AI Startup Udio After Settling Copyright Suit (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-31 Startup AI

Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova, with a deal likely valuing SambaNova below its $5B valuation in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-31 Intel Startup AI

AI 'Cheating' App Founder Says Engineers Can't Make Good, Viral Content and That's Why Their Startups Flop (slashdot.org)
2025-10-31 Startup AI

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