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Brooklyn-based Underdog, a fantasy sports and sports betting app, raised $70M in a first Series C tranche at a $1.23B valuation from Spark Capital (www.axios.com)
2 days ago

NY-based Silna, which provides healthcare revenue cycle management software, emerges from stealth with a $22M Series A co-led by Accel and Bain and a $5M seed (www.axios.com)
5 days ago

StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023 (www.axios.com)
9 days ago IPO

Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week (www.axios.com)
9 days ago Yahoo

Philadelphia-based Proscia, which provides pathology digitization software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners and others, taking its total funding to $130M (www.axios.com)
11 days ago

Taboola strikes a deal with Microsoft to sell display ads for MSN.com, Outlook, Games, Office products, and more, as it expands beyond native advertising (www.axios.com)
12 days ago Microsoft

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lumafield, which manufactures industrial CT scanners with cloud-based analysis software, raised a $75M Series C led by IVP (www.axios.com)
16 days ago

Klarna reports 2024 revenue up 24% YoY to $2.81B, a net profit of $21M, compared with a net loss of $244M a year ago, and 93M active consumers (www.axios.com)
16 days ago

GSR, one of several VC firms rebuked in 2024 over China investments, splits its China business from its US business, which is renamed as Informed Ventures (www.axios.com)
17 days ago China

President Trump nominates Sean Plankey, the director of cyber policy at the White House during the first Trump administration, to run CISA (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Trump

NYC-based Firsthand, whose tools let marketers and publishers engage consumers through AI agents on their own sites or other sites, raised a $26M Series A (www.axios.com)
22 days ago AI

US State Department officials say they launched an effort to use AI to review social media accounts of foreign students to revoke visas of “pro-Hamas” students (www.axios.com)
24 days ago AI

Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations (www.axios.com)
24 days ago Trump

NYC-based Odeko, which sells smart operations software to independent coffee shops and cafes, raised a $126M Series E, including $96M in equity and $30M in debt (www.axios.com)
25 days ago Equity

At a press conference with Trump, TSMC CEO CC Wei says the company plans to invest $100B+ in the US over four years, in addition to its current $65B investment (www.axios.com)
27 days ago Trump

Trump will speak at the first-ever White House Crypto Summit on March 7; it will be chaired by David Sacks and comes amid a global sell-off in cryptocurrencies (www.axios.com)
29 days ago Trump

Sources: General Catalyst is in the very early stages of considering an IPO, which would make it first US VC firm to go public (www.axios.com)
30 days ago IPO

Access Now: 54 countries imposed internet shutdowns at least 296 times in 2024, led by Myanmar, displacing India from the top spot for the first time since 2018 (www.axios.com)
2025-2-26 India

Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour says Factiva's AI marketplace for publishers to license their content to corporations now has nearly 5,000 publishing partners (www.axios.com)
2025-2-26 AI Dow Jones

Renaissance Capital: 12 of 40 fintech firms that went public in the US since 2020 have given positive investor returns; only Shift4 and AppLovin are profitable (www.axios.com)
2025-2-22 Fintech

Sources: NIST plans to cut 497 people, including 74 postdocs and most staff at its Chips for America program; the AI Safety Institute faces an uncertain future (www.axios.com)
2025-2-20 U.S. 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

Slow Ventures raised $60M+ for a fund to invest in creators who are authorities on niche areas like automotive; the fund appears to be the first of its kind (www.axios.com)
2025-2-14

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

Document: President Trump plans to nominate ex-RNC executive Sean Cairncross as national cyber director, his administration's first major cybersecurity pick (www.axios.com)
2025-2-12 Trump

Sam Altman says “OpenAI is not for sale” and “OpenAI's mission is not for sale”, especially to “a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market” (www.axios.com)
2025-2-11

Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Index to track AI's impact by analyzing anonymized Claude usage data, showing 57% of AI use leans toward augmentation (www.axios.com)
2025-2-11 AI

Source: Anton Levy is stepping down as General Atlantic's co-president and chairman of global technology; Levy led investments in Alibaba, Facebook, and more (www.axios.com)
2025-2-1 Facebook Alibaba

DeepSeek could be an extinction-level event for venture capital firms that went all-in on foundational model companies; investors say they are not panicking (www.axios.com)
2025-1-28

Melania Trump launches her own Solana coin, MELANIA, offered by MKT World, a company associated with Melania Trump; TRUMP fell ~36% on the news (www.axios.com)
2025-1-20 Trump

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