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Back to SearchY Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M; plus, AI chip startup MatX raised $500M
Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.
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8 months, 1 week ago
Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing; plus, Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow
With the new acquisitions, the company wants to bolster its position as a marketing solution by potentially adding video creation and more granular m…
8 months, 1 week ago
Ukraine’s startups keep building
In the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, Ukrainian startups have done more than survive: they are still building and gr…
8 months, 1 week ago
Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to
AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.
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8 months, 1 week ago
Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers; plus. Ali Partovi’s Neo looks to upend the accelerator model
Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund at €220 million, or …
8 months, 1 week ago
Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India’s AI startup ecosystem; plus, General Catalyst commits $5B to India
Nvidia is working with investors, nonprofits, and venture firms to build earlier ties with India's fast-growing AI founder ecosystem.
Also, General C…
8 months, 1 week ago
A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.
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8 months, 1 week ago
Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory; plus, Mirai developing a framework for models to perform better on devices
Reload announces a $2.275 million raise in a round led by Anthemis and the launch of its first AI employee, Epic.
Also, Mirai raised a $10 million se…
8 months, 1 week ago
Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers; plus, World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk
Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.
The p…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending; Mistral AI buys Koyeb; and Thrive raises $10B for new fund, its largest yet
SpendRule, launched last summer, is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare systems track their spending.
Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a …
8 months, 2 weeks ago