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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

Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and other experts say startups like DeepSeek and the rise of AI agents may erode the value of LLMs from OpenAI and Big Tech companies (www.cnbc.com)
2025-2-2 Startup AI

India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an “expanded scope” compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-2 India Tax Startup

Budget 2025 highlights: AI in education, nuclear energy push, Rs 10K cr-boost for startups, and more (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-1 Energy Startup AI Education Budget

How we share secrets at a fully-remote startup (mill.plainopen.com)
2025-2-1 Startup

Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40B at a $340B valuation; the startup was last valued at $157B in October, when it raised $6.6B (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-31 Startup

AI audio startup ElevenLabs raised a $180M Series C co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth at a $3.3B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $281M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 Startup AI

French startup Formance, which offers an open source, programmable financial ledger and other services, raised a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal and Portage (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-30 France Startup

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says Chinese AI startups like DeepSeek are stealing their work (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-30 China Startup AI

Carta data shows that 966 US-based startups shut down in 2024, compared to 769 in 2023, with enterprise SaaS startups accounting for 32% of the closures (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 SaaS Startup

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative driving the AI arms race in recent years and suggests that we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-29 Startup AI

Fusion reactor startup Helion, which has a deal to supply Microsoft with electricity by 2028, raised a $425M Series F, valuing the company at $5.245B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 Microsoft Startup

AI enterprise service management startup Atomicwork raised a $25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Z47, a source says at a $150M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-29 Startup AI

After DeepSeek-R1, Kimi k1.5 model by Chinese startup Moonshot AI outshines OpenAI-o1 (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China Startup AI

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

Liang Wenfeng: the force behind Chinese AI startup DeepSeek that has made US tech giants nervous and put India on edge (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China India Startup AI

Who is Liang Wenfeng, the force behind the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek that has made US tech giants nervous and put India on edge? (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China India Startup AI

Business travel startup TravelPerk raised a $200M Series E at a $2.7B valuation and buys expense management startup Yokoy, a source says for a “nine-figure” sum (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Startup

Deepseek AI News Live Updates: Chinese AI startup challenges US giants, sparks market turmoil (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China Startup AI

How Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is competing with Silicon Valley giants (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China Startup AI

2025 Will Likely Be Another Brutal Year of Failed Startups, Data Suggests (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-1-28 Startup

Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy “reasoning” models, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more (youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)
2025-1-27 Startup Nvidia

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