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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

Shenzhen-based autonomous driving startup DeepRoute.ai raised $100M from an unnamed Chinese automaker, and plans to launch 10+ models with clients in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2024-11-4 China Startup AI Shenzhen

Interviews with Quantum Machines' CTO and other executives on the startup's Nvidia partnership to use ML to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-4 Startup Nvidia Quantum

Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-4 U.S. Startup

Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas for AI startups, saying “regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs” (blogs.microsoft.com)
2024-11-2 Microsoft Startup AI

Tel Aviv-based, enterprise-focused cybersecurity startup Noma emerges from stealth with $32M in funding, including a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-1 Startup

The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-1 Italy Startup AI Nvidia

UK filings: Stability AI co-founder and ex-CEO Emad Mostaque has given up his controlling shares in the startup; Mostaque owned 75%+, per previous filings (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-30 Startup AI

Barcelona-based brain-computer interface startup Inbrain, which plans to work with graphene, raised $50M led by Imec.xpand and plans a trial of 10 patients (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-29 Startup

Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful startups like Wiz but faces ethical questions about a profit-sharing program with industry execs (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-29 Startup

Sierra, an AI startup co-founded by OpenAI board chairman and former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, raised $175M, valuing it at $4.5B, up from ~$1B previously (www.reuters.com)
2024-10-29 Startup AI Salesforce

Japan has too many startups that IPO too early amid a lack of late-stage funding, hurting unicorn ambitions; data: funding is set to fall ~33% from 2022 to 2024 (t.co)
2024-10-27 Japan IPO Startup

‘These are like AI employees… they will impact job market, but not how we are thinking': Indian AI agents startup founder (indianexpress.com)
2024-10-27 India Startup AI Job Market

Finix, a “payments infrastructure” startup that became a payment processor like Stripe in 2023, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $208M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-25 Startup

Journals With High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged By Science-Integrity Startup (science.slashdot.org)
2024-10-25 Startup

General Catalyst raised $8B, the most by a US VC since March 2022, and will put $4.5B in its core funds, $1.5B in creating startups, and $2B in other businesses (t.co)
2024-10-24 Startup

Secondhand fashion site Vinted raised €340M led by TPG at a €5B valuation, as the profitable startup plans to expand beyond clothes into electronics and more (t.co)
2024-10-24 Startup

Document: Guangzhou, China-based self-driving startup WeRide files for a Nasdaq IPO, planning to raise up to $119.4M (www.reuters.com)
2024-10-24 China IPO Startup

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