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Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40B at a $340B valuation; the startup was last valued at $157B in October, when it raised $6.6B (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-31 Startup

AI audio startup ElevenLabs raised a $180M Series C co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth at a $3.3B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $281M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 Startup AI

French startup Formance, which offers an open source, programmable financial ledger and other services, raised a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal and Portage (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-30 France Startup

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says Chinese AI startups like DeepSeek are stealing their work (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-30 China Startup AI

Carta data shows that 966 US-based startups shut down in 2024, compared to 769 in 2023, with enterprise SaaS startups accounting for 32% of the closures (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 SaaS Startup

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative driving the AI arms race in recent years and suggests that we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-29 Startup AI

Fusion reactor startup Helion, which has a deal to supply Microsoft with electricity by 2028, raised a $425M Series F, valuing the company at $5.245B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 Microsoft Startup

AI enterprise service management startup Atomicwork raised a $25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Z47, a source says at a $150M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-29 Startup AI

After DeepSeek-R1, Kimi k1.5 model by Chinese startup Moonshot AI outshines OpenAI-o1 (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China Startup AI

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

Liang Wenfeng: the force behind Chinese AI startup DeepSeek that has made US tech giants nervous and put India on edge (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China India Startup AI

Who is Liang Wenfeng, the force behind the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek that has made US tech giants nervous and put India on edge? (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China India Startup AI

Business travel startup TravelPerk raised a $200M Series E at a $2.7B valuation and buys expense management startup Yokoy, a source says for a “nine-figure” sum (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Startup

Deepseek AI News Live Updates: Chinese AI startup challenges US giants, sparks market turmoil (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China Startup AI

How Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is competing with Silicon Valley giants (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-28 China Startup AI

2025 Will Likely Be Another Brutal Year of Failed Startups, Data Suggests (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-1-28 Startup

Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy “reasoning” models, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more (youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)
2025-1-27 Startup Nvidia

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-1-26 China Startup AI

Retro Biosciences, the Sam Altman-backed startup that wants to use AI to develop therapies for extending human lifespan by a decade, is raising a $1B Series A (t.co)
2025-1-25 Startup AI

The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup GameOn and his wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $60M between 2018 and 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-24 Startup AI chatbot

France says David Balland, co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger, was kidnapped on January 21 and freed on January 22 after a police operation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 France Startup

Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation back Etherealize, a NYC-based startup to market Ethereum to financial firms, as ether lags behind bitcoin's gains (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 Bitcoin Startup Ethereum Vitalik Buterin

Neko Health, a startup co-founded by Daniel Ek that offers AI-based full-body scans, has raised $260M led by Lightspeed, sources say at a $1.7B valuation (t.co)
2025-1-23 Startup AI

Music AI, the AI startup behind Moises music creation service, raised a $40M Series A led by monashees and Connect Ventures, a partnership between CAA and NEA (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2025-1-23 Startup AI

Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024 and including investment from Meta, and raised $5.25B in debt (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Startup

DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633 (t.co)
2025-1-22 Startup Southeast Asia

An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-22 Startup Indonesia

SoftBank-Backed Fish Startup Allegedly Faked Most of Its Sales (slashdot.org)
2025-1-22 Startup

Stuttgart-based robotics startup Sereact, which develops Vision Language Action Models and whose customers include BMW and Daimler Truck, raised a $26M Series A (www.pymnts.com)
2025-1-21 Startup Robot

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