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Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire startup Bridge, a provider of infrastructure for crypto stablecoins, for $1B; Bridge raised $58M (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-18 Startup

Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine, its Shine app, Google News, Yahoo, selling to Verizon, Yahoo Weather, feminism, being a geek, and more (www.wired.com)
2024-10-17 Google Startup AI Yahoo

Enterprise data security startup Cyera buys data loss startup Trail Security for $162M in cash and stock; sources: Cyera is raising $200M+ at a ~$3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 Startup

Accel: VC funding for cloud startups in the US, Europe, and Israel to rise 27% YoY to $79.2B in 2024, with 40% of the funding going to generative AI startups (www.cnbc.com)
2024-10-17 Europe Israel Startup AI

Startup Can Identify Deepfake Video In Real Time (it.slashdot.org)
2024-10-17 Startup

A look at a cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London that collectively have 500+ startups with at least $100M of annual revenue (www.wired.com)
2024-10-16 Europe Startup London

Galileo, a startup that helps companies fine tune, evaluate, observe, and protect their AI models, raised a $45M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

Analytics software provider Amplitude acquires Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly called CommandBar that raised $23.8M, a source says for $45M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

Customer service AI startup Neuron7 raised a $44M Series B led by Smith Point Capital, and says it had 300% growth in ARR in 2023 and 65 full-time employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

The NYT sends a cease-and-desist letter to AI startup Perplexity to stop using its content; Perplexity says it is “interested in working with every” publisher (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-15 Startup AI

A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize AI models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the past 12 months, up 81.4% YoY (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Startup AI

UK podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC raised a $400M fund for early stage startups, one of Europe's biggest venture funds; the podcast recently hosted Sam Altman (www.ft.com)
2024-10-15 Europe Startup

EvenUp, a personal injury startup making AI tools for law firms, raised a $135M Series D led by Bain Capital at a $1B+ valuation and says it has 1,000+ clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-8 Startup AI

Google's Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-10-8 Google Startup AI

Dealroom: US VCs made up 65% of 2024 VC investments in European defense startups, up from 18% in 2023, for a total of $458M, or 3x+ more than in any prior year (t.co)
2024-10-7 Europe Startup

A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 with an estimated $22B valuation, as it faces insolvency and lawsuits in India and the US (t.co)
2024-10-7 India Startup

Permalink to MIT startup Liquid AI releases its first series of generative AI models (sdtimes.com)
2024-10-4 Startup AI

Sources: OpenAI has asked investors to avoid backing rival startups such as Anthropic and xAI, an exclusive funding arrangement to keep its generative AI lead (t.co)
2024-10-3 Startup AI

OpenAI Asks Investors Not To Back Rival Startups Such as Elon Musk's xAI (news.slashdot.org)
2024-10-3 Startup Elon Musk

Sources: OpenAI has asked investors to avoid backing rival startups such as Anthropic and xAI (www.ft.com)
2024-10-3 Startup

Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, instead focusing on its chatbots (t.co)
2024-10-2 Google Startup AI chatbot

AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General Catalyst and others at a $500M valuation, and acquired Idaho-based outsourcing company PartnerHero (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-2 Startup AI

VC firm CRV plans to return $275M from its $500M Select fund, citing worsening market conditions and high startup valuations relative to their potential payoff (www.nytimes.com)
2024-10-2 Startup

Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup

AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 (www.cnbc.com)
2024-10-1 IPO Startup AI

Series Entertainment, a game studio startup building a generative AI-powered service for making games, raised a $28M Series A from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup AI Netflix

A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep (www.supervised.news)
2024-9-29 Startup

A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was arrested by the US in June for allegedly running a “pill mill”, as it continues to operate from China (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-28 China Startup

A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Energy Startup AI

Stripe data: AI startups took a median 11 months to hit $1M in annualized revenue after their first sales, vs. 15 months for previous gen of SaaS companies (t.co)
2024-9-27 SaaS Startup AI

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