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Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates are posting “engagement bait” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-8 Startup Racism

Character.AI, Aleph Alpha, and other AI startups that raised hundreds of millions are struggling to compete against better-funded rivals and Big Tech companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-9-7 Startup AI

Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a $1.1B valuation led by WestBridge and plans to expand its newly launched cab-hailing service (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2024-9-5 India Startup

OpenAI Co-Founder Raises $1 Billion For New Safety-Focused AI Startup (news.slashdot.org)
2024-9-5 Startup AI

Trump Sons Plan Crypto Startup (news.slashdot.org)
2024-9-2 Trump Startup

In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer alleges that the CEO of the smartphone startup misused funds to pay for his racing hobby and lavish lifestyle (www.androidauthority.com)
2024-9-1 Startup

A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a “strategic text sequence” to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup (www.nytimes.com)
2024-9-1 Startup AI chatbot

How the Israeli army's Unit 8200 became an incubator for cybersecurity startups, with its alumni starting Wiz, Palo Alto Networks, and other companies (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-31 Israel Startup

FDA Wants Safer Cancer Drugs, But Some Startups Fear Unintended Consequences (science.slashdot.org)
2024-8-31 Startup

Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B, down from $5B in 2022 when VerSe raised $805M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-31 India Startup

AI startup founded by 2 Indian-origin US professors is developing a ‘general-purpose brain' for robots (indianexpress.com)
2024-8-30 India Startup AI Robot

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $340M at a $5B valuation, up from $3.6B in June 2024, in a round led by General Catalyst (www.reuters.com)
2024-8-30 India Startup

Web browser startup Brave lays off 27 employees, after cutting 9% of its workforce in October 2023; PitchBook estimates that Brave has ~191 employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-28 Startup Browser

Web3 esports startup Gameplay Galaxy, focused on developing upcoming game Trial Xtreme Freedom, raised a $24M seed co-led by Blockchain Capital and Merit Circle (venturebeat.com)
2024-8-28 Blockchain Startup

Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures (www.geekwire.com)
2024-8-28 Startup AI Seattle

Chinese Hackers Breach US Internet Firms via Startup, Lumen Says (it.slashdot.org)
2024-8-28 China Startup

Ex-Googlers Discover That Startups Are Hard (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-8-28 Startup

Data infrastructure startup Cribl raised $200M led by GV, alongside a $119M secondary offering, at a $3.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $600M (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-8-27 Startup

Chicago-based G Squared raised $1.1B for a fund to buy secondary startup shares; G Squared bought ~$135M in Anthropic shares from FTX during FTX's bankruptcy (www.ft.com)
2024-8-27 Startup

An overview of AI startups largely founded by former AI researchers from Google, including Reka, Ideogram, H, Inflection, and Character AI (www.theinformation.com)
2024-8-27 Google Startup AI

Inflection will cap free access to its AI chatbot Pi in the coming months and let users export their conversations as the startup focuses on enterprise products (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-27 Startup AI chatbot

Chicago-based G Squared raised $1.1B for a fund to buy secondary startup shares; G Squared bought ~$135M in Anthropic shares from FTX during its bankruptcy (t.co)
2024-8-26 Startup

A look at voice bots from Indian startups Sarvam AI, CoRover, and Gnani.ai; Samsung-backed Gnani now handles millions of voice conversations daily for companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-8-26 India Samsung Startup AI

An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more (lexfridman.com)
2024-8-25 Interview Startup AI

Andrew Ng steps down as CEO of LandingAI, the computer vision startup he founded in 2017, and transitions to executive chairman; ex-COO Dan Maloney is named CEO (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-24 Startup

The French AI startup called H, formerly Holistic, says three of its five co-founders are leaving over “operational differences”, after raising $220M in May (www.theinformation.com)
2024-8-24 France Startup AI

Chinese AI startups, cut off from the most powerful AI chips, are focusing on monetization, writing more efficient code for LLMs, and building smaller models (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-23 China Startup AI

Dealroom: AI coding assistant startups such as Anysphere and Augment have raised $433M so far in 2024 alone, bringing the total since January 2023 to $906M (t.co)
2024-8-23 Startup AI

Chinese self-driving startup WeRide delays its planned IPO in the US, citing its need for more time to complete documents, after filing for an IPO in July 2024 (www.cnbc.com)
2024-8-22 China IPO Startup

Indian startup makes a Google competitor, co-founder Vinci Mathews explains why Nofrills AI is a hybrid of a search engine and an AI chatbot (indianexpress.com)
2024-8-22 India Google Startup AI chatbot

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