Startup

Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware (www.404media.co)
2024-12-17 Startup

A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city's Department of For-Hire Vehicles (www.nytimes.com)
2024-12-16 Startup

A profile of Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who has urged AI companies and other tech startups to boost US competitiveness and national security (t.co)
2024-12-16 Trump Startup AI

The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU startups compete with global rivals (www.politico.eu)
2024-12-15 Startup AI

An interview with Fei-Fei Li on her NeurIPS keynote talk about visual intelligence, her startup World Labs, giving machines 3D spatial intelligence, and more (spectrum.ieee.org)
2024-12-15 Interview Startup Intelligence

Zürich-based robotics startup Anybotics raised a $60M Series B extension, taking the round, announced in May 2023, to $110M and its total funding to $130M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-13 Startup Robot

Montreal-based Flare, a threat exposure management startup that develops tech to thwart info-stealer malware, raised a $30M Series B led by Base10 Partners (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 Startup

Startup Will Brick $800 Emotional Support Robot For Kids Without Refunds (it.slashdot.org)
2024-12-12 Startup Robot

Swedish startup Mynt, which offers smart expense cards for SMEs, raised €22M led by Vor Capital, a source says at a ~€200M valuation, and claims 12K SME clients (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 Startup Sweden

Stainless, a startup offering an AI-powered API-to-SDK generator to customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 Startup AI

AI language learning startup Speak, which focuses on speaking, not gamification, raised $78M led by Accel at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $162M (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-11 Startup AI

A growing cohort of AI startups are recruiting scores of experts to train models on highly specialized tasks for sensitive sectors like defense and health care (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-10 Startup AI

Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju, who was hired in June 2024, says the startup has seen “triple digit growth” and has “a clean balance sheet, no debt” (fortune.com)
2024-12-10 Startup AI

Drones, Surveillance, and Facial Recognition: Startup Named 'Sauron' Pitches Military-Style Home Security (slashdot.org)
2024-12-8 Startup Drone Facial Recognition

In a recent discussion, YC partners said the incubator was deluged with applications from startups looking to develop AI agents, which could become the new SaaS (t.co)
2024-12-6 SaaS Startup AI

“This is Just a Prototype”: How Ethics Are Ignored in Software Startup-Like Environments (jyx.jyu.fi)
2024-12-6 Startup

A look at European startups building AI-powered weapons, betting governments will increase defense budgets and buy more autonomous drones and AI systems (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-5 Europe Startup AI Drone

Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its lead Raiza Martin, are leaving to launch a startup focused on building “a user-first AI product” (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google Startup AI

European defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection (t.co)
2024-12-3 Europe Startup AI Drone

Nike-owned NFT Wearables Startup RTFKT is Winding Down (slashdot.org)
2024-12-3 Startup

RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in ~$50M in total earnings (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-3 Startup

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the startup is weighing up an ads model, but plans to be “thoughtful”; sources say OpenAI has hired ad talent from Meta and Google (t.co)
2024-12-2 Google Startup

Inside Helsinki's Slush 2024, a startup event described as a mix of TED Talks, Eurovision, and Shark Tank, attended by ~13K people, with LPs up 46% YoY to 350+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-2 Startup

Japan allocates another $9.9B to boost its chip, quantum computing, and AI endeavors, with an undisclosed amount going to chip startup Rapidus (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-29 Japan Startup AI Quantum

Memo: Revolut tells ex-staff who were at the startup for 2+ years and held $100K+ in vested stock that they can join a secondary share sale at a $45B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-29 Startup

Cloud backup startup Eon raised $70M led by BOND at a $1.4B valuation, taking its total funding to $200M since its January 2024 founding by AWS alumni (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-28 Startup

AI Publishing Startup Plans To Release 8,000 Books Next Year (slashdot.org)
2024-11-28 Startup AI

Sources: xAI plans to launch a consumer app as soon as next month; the Elon Musk-run startup build its Colossus data center, which houses 100K GPUs, in 122 days (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-27 Startup Elon Musk

Study: about 85% of US unicorn startups that have gone public were unprofitable in 2023, despite most having been founded more than fifteen years earlier (americanaffairsjournal.org)
2024-11-27 Startup

Austin-based anti-ransomware startup Halcyon raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $190M (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-26 Startup Equity

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