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Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion; plus, IntrCity SmartBus lands $30M to deepen its grip on India’s intercity travel market
Most people tracking their health today end up with scattered clues. Their smartwatch shows sleep duration. A fitness app logs steps. A nutrition app...
The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in ChatGPT and other AI apps, plus India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months
People are increasingly asking AI, not Google, to help them discover products. A recent shopping report says Americans, this holiday season, will like...
Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping, plus, Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistant
Phia founders, Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, are building an AI assistant that aims to help you shop, and save.
Also, Grammarly is rena...
AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs; also, Mem0 raises $24M to build the memory layer for AI apps
Access Grid builds APIs that companies can use to manage digital key fobs directly within Apple and Google's wallet platforms.
Plus, Tara...
Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible
“What we really do is we took the most constrained, complex, and costly medical imaging solution in radiology, and we supplanted it with what is the m...
Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C
Onfire, a vertical AI platform for IT revenue teams, is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding, including a $14 million Series A co-led by...
India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest
BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year.
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Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen
Tensormesh uses an expanded form of KV Caching to make inference loads as much as ten times more efficient.
Plus, Palantir said on Thursd...
Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood
The round was led by Eclipse and saw participation from Nvidia's venture capital arm, NVentures.
Also, Wonder will use the fresh funds t...
Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race
Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment.
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Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs
After endless Silicon Valley takes on how generative AI would radically change scientific discovery, the founders decided that the pieces were finally...
a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager
Codi was founded in 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, with a mission to help companies find flexible office spaces.
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Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA
Abu-Ghazaleh said his two-month-old company promises to cut inefficiencies in high-stakes sectors like aviation, logistics, and oil and gas through an...
Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature
The redesigned Oura app introduces more personalization with three main tabs.
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A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world
"The platforms that won were the ones that kept people scrolling the longest, not the ones that made them feel the most connected,” Zehra Naqvi told...
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you
Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, launched a side project called Endless Summer, a photobooth app fo...
How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems; plus, Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs
After struggling to retain customers at his e-commerce site Headphones.com, founder Andrew Lissimore built his own loyalty solution — and it’s now a s...
General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips, also, Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO
Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research...
Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices; also, Eightfold raised $35M for an AI digital twin startup
Liberate’s AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims.
Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla V...
Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense
Sonic Fire Tech has developed a device that can extinguish flames using acoustic energy below the range of human hearing. The startup is building a de...
FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster
Co-founded by a former Uber Freight product manager, and backed by Uber's lead seed investor, FleetWorks is quickly scooping up customers in the truck...
Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to build and update websites, and Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab
Flint raised a $5 million seed round led by Accel, with participation from Sheryl Sandberg’s fund, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, and prior inves...
India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries
An Indian drone startup called Airbound raised nearly $9 million in seed funding as it begins a drone-delivery pilot with a private hospital and works...
Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8B; also,
Kalshi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, announced that it raised over three hundred million dollars at a 5 billion dol...
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed front...
Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production; and Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams
Novoloop has signed a deal with a contract manufacturer to produce its Lifecycled TPU material.
Also, Knapsack creates a unified workspac...
Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere
Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States.
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Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for GM, Ford, and lots of startups
Trump's Department of Energy wants to cancel billions more in awards that were granted by the Biden administration, and startups are in the crosshairs...
One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built
By coating regular rebar with a thin layer of stainless steel, Allium Engineering could reduce the amount of concrete needed to build a bridge while a...
Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse; also, ÄIO invented a method to make edible fat from ag waste like sawdust
The third-party app store known as AltStore, one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union, is preparing to...
A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his AI memory startup, Supermemory
19-year-old Dhravya Shah, who is originally from Mumbai, has built a memory layer for AI applications with Google's AI chief's backing.
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Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund
Heidi Health raised a $65 million Series B led by Steven Cohen’s Point72.
Also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund to invest i...
Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos; plus, If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs
Social event planning app Partiful, which calls itself “Facebook events for hot people,” has firmly replaced Facebook as the go-to platform for sendin...
A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes; also, New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million
Zehra Naqvi grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s and recently started Lore, a search platform for people to research and discover internet ob...
How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance
The U.S. government shutdown could stifle deal flow, freeze visa processing for workers, and cause other problems for startups and the broader tech se...
Kevin Hart’s VC firm led $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple, also, Electroflow promises to make LFP material for 40% less than Chinese producers
Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight.
Electroflow drew inspiration from batteries themselves to deve...
Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool
The startup was started earlier this year by Yang Fan Yun and Charlie Deane. Yun is a former product manager at Uber, while Deane founded a company se...
Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science, plus, Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist
Periodic Labs was founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus. Cubuk led the materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, where one of hi...
CommanderAI building Salesforce for the waste management industry, also, a year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B
CommanderAI launched in early 2024 as a customer relationship manager and sales prospecting platform built for waste management — and other industrial...
Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks; also, AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews
It’s no secret that vibe coding — using AI-powered coding tools to build apps and websites via natural language prompts — is exploding in popularity....