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Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment; plus, Stilta helps companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had

Interactive social media site Status announced Tuesday $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding, with investors including General Catalyst,…

5 months, 1 week ago

South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses; plus, Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo

A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era.

Also, AI-powered…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware; plus, Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders

Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers.

Plus, Meridian V…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby; plus, Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

Also, a year ago, it looked like this day would never hap…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante; plus, Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B

Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.

After achieving $2.2 billion in revenu…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen

The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO; plus, Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth as well as early-stage startups.

Also, Samsung, Hyundai and LG…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build rockets for space data centers; plus what will the whisper-filled office of the future sound like

Cowboy Space Corporation wants to put data centers in orbit. First, it has to build the rockets to get them there.

Also, how will work setups change …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom; plus, Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

Also, Genesis AI, a startup …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding; plus, Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences

Ethos says it is onboarding 35,000 experts per week

Also, Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across…

5 months, 3 weeks ago