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Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-1-26 China Startup AI

Retro Biosciences, the Sam Altman-backed startup that wants to use AI to develop therapies for extending human lifespan by a decade, is raising a $1B Series A (t.co)
2025-1-25 Startup AI

The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup GameOn and his wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $60M between 2018 and 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-24 Startup AI chatbot

France says David Balland, co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger, was kidnapped on January 21 and freed on January 22 after a police operation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 France Startup

Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation back Etherealize, a NYC-based startup to market Ethereum to financial firms, as ether lags behind bitcoin's gains (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 Bitcoin Startup Ethereum Vitalik Buterin

Neko Health, a startup co-founded by Daniel Ek that offers AI-based full-body scans, has raised $260M led by Lightspeed, sources say at a $1.7B valuation (t.co)
2025-1-23 Startup AI

Music AI, the AI startup behind Moises music creation service, raised a $40M Series A led by monashees and Connect Ventures, a partnership between CAA and NEA (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2025-1-23 Startup AI

Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024 and including investment from Meta, and raised $5.25B in debt (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Startup

DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633 (t.co)
2025-1-22 Startup Southeast Asia

An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-22 Startup Indonesia

SoftBank-Backed Fish Startup Allegedly Faked Most of Its Sales (slashdot.org)
2025-1-22 Startup

Stuttgart-based robotics startup Sereact, which develops Vision Language Action Models and whose customers include BMW and Daimler Truck, raised a $26M Series A (www.pymnts.com)
2025-1-21 Startup Robot

Employees of Failed Startups Are at Special Risk of Stolen Personal Data Through Old Google Logins (it.slashdot.org)
2025-1-21 Google Startup

Donald Trump inauguration in Hindi: This startup makes it possible, here's how to watch (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-18 Trump Startup

OpenAI and longevity startup train GPT-4b model to extend human life (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-18 Startup

Lenovo acquires enterprise storage startup Infinidat and plans to turn it into its Israel development center; Infinidat raised $350M from TPG and others (en.globes.co.il)
2025-1-18 Israel Startup Lenovo

PitchBook: investors put $74.6B into US startups in Q4 2024, up from an average of $42B in the prior nine quarters, with $32B invested across just five deals (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-18 Startup 4Q

Sources: Mira Murati's AI startup has poached about 10 researchers and engineers, including former OpenAI Head of Special Projects Jonathan Lachman, from rivals (www.wired.com)
2025-1-17 Startup AI

E-commerce marketing startup Rokt agrees a secondary share sale at a $3.5B valuation ahead of a 2026 IPO, and acquires customer data startup mParticle for $300M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-17 IPO Startup

Amazon to acquire Bengaluru-based BNPL startup Axio, sources say for $150M+; Axio raised $135M in equity, claims to have 10M+ customers, and a $260M+ loan book (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 Amazon Startup Equity

Mistral announces a content deal with the Agence France-Presse to improve answer accuracy in Le Chat, marking the French AI startup's first such partnership (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 France Startup AI

Google agreed to buy 100K tons of CO2 removal credits from Indian startup Varaha for an undisclosed sum, marking its first deal with a carbon project in India (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 India Google Startup

Startup Raises $200 Million To 'De-Extinct' the Woolly Mammoth, Thylacine and Dodo (science.slashdot.org)
2025-1-16 Startup

Synthesia, a London-based B2B startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Startup AI London

Elmsford, NY-based quantum computing startup SEEQC raised a $30M Series A extension co-led by Booz Allen and NordicNinja, following a $22.4M Series A in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Startup Quantum

Report: UK startups raised €16.4B in 2024, Germany raised €9.4B, France raised €7.1B; investment in French AI startups grew from €1B in 2023 to €1.9B in 2024 (sifted.eu)
2025-1-15 Germany France Startup AI

Snyk Researcher Caught Deploying Malicious Code Targeting AI Startup (it.slashdot.org)
2025-1-14 Startup AI

Sources: Chainalysis acquires AI-agent security startup Alterya for ~$150M; Alterya is still in stealth mode but has clients including Coinbase, Square, Binance (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-1-14 Startup AI Coinbase

A look at Troodi, a mental health chatbot built by AI startup Elomia Health for Troomi's child-focused phones, with thousands of teen users across the US (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Startup AI chatbot

Donald Trump Jr. is joining prediction-market startup Kalshi as a strategic adviser; CFTC called Kalshi “an online casino” in a December filing (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Trump Startup CFTC

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