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Chinese self-driving startup WeRide files to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol WRD, reporting a loss of $268M on revenue of $55M in 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-27 China Startup

A look at the race to build advanced AI robots; PitchBook: robotics startups have raised $6.5B across 552 deals in 2024 vs. $9.7B across 1,256 deals in 2023 (www.ft.com)
2024-7-27 Startup AI Robot

Self-driving startup Applied Intuition raised $300M+ as part of a secondary deal that allowed shareholders and employees to sell shares in the $6B company (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-26 Startup

FTC's Lina Khan says open-weights AI models can promote competition and “liberate startups from the arbitrary whims of closed developers and cloud gatekeepers” (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-26 Startup AI

Taiwanese rocket startup may be early test of Japan's space hub plans (indianexpress.com)
2024-7-26 Japan Taiwan Startup

Crunchbase: in H1 2024, generative AI startups raised $500M across 198 angel/seed deals, $8.7B across 39 early-stage deals, and $3.1B across 18 late-stage deals (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-25 Startup AI

Beijing-based AI startup Baichuan raised about $687M at a $2.8B valuation from investors, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen governments, and Alibaba (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-25 Alibaba Startup AI Shenzhen Shanghai

US Urges Vigilance By Tech Startups, VC Firms on Foreign Funds (news.slashdot.org)
2024-7-25 Startup

The US NCSC warns US tech startups that “foreign threat actors”, including China, might use private investment to exploit them and threaten national security (t.co)
2024-7-25 China Startup

Compliance startup Vanta raised a $150M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $2.45B valuation, up from $1.6B in 2022, to accelerate adding AI to its products (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-24 Startup AI

LA-based Pearl, an FDA-approved startup that uses AI to assist dentists to make diagnoses, raised a $58M Series B led by Left Lane Capital at a $400M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-24 Startup AI

A profile of Blake Benthall, arrested in 2014 for running Silk Road 2.0, which had 1.7M users and $8M/month sales, as he promotes his crypto startup Fathom(x) (www.nytimes.com)
2024-7-24 Startup

India scraps “angel tax” for all classes of investors, a major victory to the country's startup ecosystem that had lobbied for years against the measure (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 India Tax Startup

Mytra, a startup building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, launches from stealth with $78M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 Startup Robot

Cybersecurity startup Wiz walks away from a $23B deal to be acquired by Google; memo: Wiz's CEO told staff the company would pursue an IPO as originally planned (www.cnbc.com)
2024-7-23 Google IPO Startup

Tel Aviv-based enterprise identity management startup Linx emerges from stealth with $27M co-led by Index and Cyberstarts after raising $6M led by Cyberstarts (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-22 Startup

Toronto-based AI startup Cohere raised a $500M Series D led by Canadian pension fund PSP at a $5.5B valuation, after raising $270M at a $2.2B valuation in 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-22 Startup AI Canada Toronto

Venture funding to cybersecurity startups grew to $4.4B in Q2 2024, up 144% YoY; funding in H1 2024 was $7.1B, up from $4.7B in H1 2023 (news.crunchbase.com)
2024-7-20 Startup

Intel veteran Lisa Spelman plans to become CEO of Cornelis, a networking startup spun off from Intel in 2020, on August 15; Spelman worked at Intel for 20 years (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-19 Intel Startup

German AI startup DeepL releases its new translation model with support for German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese to and from English, available in DeepL Pro (siliconangle.com)
2024-7-18 China Germany Japan Startup AI

'Godmother of AI' Builds $1 Billion Startup In 4 Months (slashdot.org)
2024-7-18 Startup AI

Startups Are Building Balloons To Hoist Tourists Into the Stratosphere (science.slashdot.org)
2024-7-18 Startup

Startup Makes Butter Using CO2 and Water (science.slashdot.org)
2024-7-17 Startup

US FTC seeking details on Amazon deal with AI startup Adept, source says (indianexpress.com)
2024-7-17 Amazon Startup AI

On their podcast, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why they are backing Trump, say Trump is pro-crypto, Biden's overregulation harms startups, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-17 Trump Startup

Source: in an informal inquiry, the US FTC has asked Amazon to provide more details on its deal to hire top executives and license tech from AI startup Adept (www.reuters.com)
2024-7-17 Amazon Startup AI

Former Tesla, OpenAI Exec Andrej Karpathy Founds 'AI Native' Education Startup (news.slashdot.org)
2024-7-17 Startup AI Tesla Education

How we share secrets at a fully-remote startup (www.getgrist.com)
2024-7-17 Startup

An Indian court allows insolvency proceedings to begin against edtech startup Byju's, and installs an interim resolution professional to replace Byju Raveendran (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-16 India Startup

Analysis: Intel's VC arm is one of the most active foreign investors in Chinese AI and chip startups; Intel Capital owns stakes in 43 Chinese tech startups (t.co)
2024-7-16 China Intel Startup AI

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