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

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

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