Startup

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (www.wired.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

Yann LeCun says his unnamed AI startup will not receive financial backing from Meta, will focus on advanced AI world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI Paris

University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician” (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-4 Startup AI Mathematics Virginia

A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-3 Startup AI

Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools (www.ft.com)
2025-12-3 Startup AI

ServiceNow announces a deal to acquire identity security startup Veza, sources say for between $1B and $1.5B; Veza had a private valuation of $808M in March (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-3 Startup

Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M (en.globes.co.il)
2025-12-3 Israel Startup AI

US and Israeli cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil at a $4B valuation, up from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-3 Israel Startup

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-3 Startup

Trump Administration To Take Equity Stake In Former Intel CEO's Chip Startup (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 Trump Intel Startup Equity

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-2 Startup AI Paris

Sources: Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could top $5B; Celestial was valued at $2.5B in March 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-2 Startup AI

An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80+ tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-2 Startup AI

German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-1 Germany Startup AI

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (www.cnet.com)
2025-12-1 Startup AI

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-12-1 China Startup AI

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-30 Startup AI

London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (www.ft.com)
2025-11-27 Tax Startup AI London

Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B+ in a deal as early as next week (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-27 Startup

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (www.wired.com)
2025-11-27 Startup AI Manufacturing Jeff Bezos

Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 (www.billboard.com)
2025-11-26 Startup AI

Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, raised a $120M Series C led by Ribbit at a $1.45B valuation, bringing its total funding to $295M (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-26 Startup AI Mathematics

Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M+; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (fortune.com)
2025-11-26 Startup Asset New York

Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-25 Europe Startup

The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed “first customer” payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (t.co)
2025-11-24 Startup AI

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (sources.news)
2025-11-24 Startup AI

Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-24 Startup AI Robot

Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-24 China Startup AI Intelligence

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (restofworld.org)
2025-11-24 India Startup

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