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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

PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 Startup AI

A profile of Chris Maurice, CEO of US-based stablecoin startup Yellow Card, which operates in 20 African countries and has traded $3B+ worth of crypto in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-25 Startup Africa

Deckmatch research of ~5,000 YC-backed startups finds YC commonly accepts startups that are building similar or nearly identical products to previous YC grads (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-24 Startup

Customers of banking startups like Yotta describe losing savings ranging from $7,000 to $200,000+ due to Synapse's collapse, after US regulators refused to help (www.cnbc.com)
2024-11-24 Startup

Amazon doubles down on AI startup Anthropic with another $4 bln (indianexpress.com)
2024-11-23 Amazon Startup AI

Amazon Doubles Investment in AI Startup Anthropic To $8 Billion (slashdot.org)
2024-11-23 Amazon Startup AI

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August; it has raised $1.35B since June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23 India Startup

Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources: the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 Startup

French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21 France Startup AI

Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 (en.globes.co.il)
2024-11-20 Israel Startup

Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO (t.co)
2024-11-20 Europe IPO Startup Single Market

Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip (siliconangle.com)
2024-11-20 Startup

The UK CMA clears Google's partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained “material influence” over the AI startup, following a formal probe (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-19 Google Startup AI

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 Europe IPO Startup

AI startup Perplexity adds shopping features as search competition tightens (indianexpress.com)
2024-11-19 Startup AI

BitSight, the cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4B, acquires Cybersixgill, which gathers threat intelligence data from the dark web, for $115M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Startup Intelligence Darknet

Estonian ride-hailing and food delivery startup Bolt says it hit €2B in annual revenue and plans a 2025 IPO; Bolt had an $8B+ valuation in January 2022 (www.reuters.com)
2024-11-14 IPO Startup

PitchBook: tech as a percentage of total private equity deal value was 28.3% in Q3, up from 18.7% in Q2, as VC firms and tech startups turn to PE for liquidity (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-14 Private Equity Startup Venture Capital Equity

PitchBook: Q3 2024 crypto VC funding fell 31.3% YoY to $1.7B and VC deals fell 25.3% YoY to 392, as infrastructure startups continued to draw investors' focus (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-13 Startup

Sources: Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder is in advanced talks to buy Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway; Just Eat bought Grubhub in 2021 in a $7B+ deal (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-13 Startup

Red Hat is Acquiring AI Optimization Startup Neural Magic (linux.slashdot.org)
2024-11-13 Startup AI

SoftBank reports Q2 net income of ~$7.7B and a Vision Fund gain of ~$2.42B, driven by strong Indian startup IPOs and valuation gains in Coupang and Didi (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-12 India IPO Startup

Q&A with Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley on his startup Hopscotch Labs, which uses AI and headphones to give information as a person walks by a location (crazystupidtech.com)
2024-11-11 Startup AI

Source: AI coding assistant startup Anysphere has received unsolicited offers valuing the company at as much as $2.5B from Benchmark, Index, a16z, and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9 Startup AI

AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones (www.forbes.com)
2024-11-9 Trump Startup AI

With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump's orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-9 Trump Startup Elon Musk

Sources: Saudi Arabia plans a new AI project to rival the UAE's tech hub, backed by $50B to $100B to invest in data centers, startups, new talent, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-7 Startup AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Lyft partners with autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility to launch cars in Atlanta in 2025, and self-driving car company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-7 Startup Autonomous Car

In a lawsuit, the US FTC accuses fintech startup Dave of misleading struggling borrowers about its cash advances' terms, charging undisclosed fees, and more (www.semafor.com)
2024-11-6 Fintech Startup

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