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Eyebot gets $20M Series A to boost to expand eye care access and more tech news

Eyebot secured $20M Series A for 90-second prescription kiosk.

Also, Pintarnya raised $16.7M to power jobs and financial services in Indonesia. The I…

6 months ago

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains and Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth

FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics. Also, Y Combinator is asking t…

6 months ago

As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug

Several Indian startups, including Dream Sports, MPL, and Zupee, are shutting down their real-money games after parliament passed a bill banning such…

6 months ago

YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’

The thousands of trucks zipping along U.S. highways are often only about half full -- something Oway wants to change with its 'ride-share for freight…

6 months ago

Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.

Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia has asked a U.S. judge to turn Chrome into a foundation it controls, funding billions in climate project…

6 months ago

Group14 lands $463M to make silicon anodes for EVs, also, SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents

The battery materials startup raised significant Series D funding to expand its manufacturing capability. At the same time, it bought out partner SK'…

6 months ago

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

Prices for hacking tools that allow governments to break into mobile phones keep going up, thanks to efforts by tech firms shoring up their cybersecu…

6 months, 1 week ago

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains, plus Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics.

Also, YC backed Garage is a ma…

6 months, 1 week ago

Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

A new gadget called Dex allows kids to take pictures of objects and the AI translates the word into different languages.

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6 months, 1 week ago

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still looking to hire agents as employees, also, Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product. Also, The round, which …

6 months, 1 week ago