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Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-20 Startup Netflix

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (fortune.com)
2025-12-20 Startup

Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-19 Startup

Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18 Startup

In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices” (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18 Startup

Meta partners with Singapore-based startup K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, and plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 (t.co)
2025-12-18 Startup Singapore

AI chip startup Mythic, which develops “analog processing units” to perform AI computations within memory, raised $125M led by DCVC; its CEO is a Nvidia veteran (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 Startup AI Nvidia

Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B of shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Germany Startup

Sources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-17 Startup New York

X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the “Twitter” trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 Startup Twitter

Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Startup

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-16 Startup AI

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-15 Startup AI

How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-15 Startup Sweden

Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-14 Energy Startup AI

Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-13 Intel Startup AI

Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-12 Startup AI

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Israel Startup Spotify

Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 India Startup

Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup, has petitioned the USPTO to acquire the “abandoned” Twitter trademark and launch its own social network (arstechnica.com)
2025-12-11 Startup Twitter Virginia

How US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-11 China Startup

DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-10 Startup Robot

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (venturebeat.com)
2025-12-10 China Startup AI

Italy-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-9 Italy Startup Robot Venture Capital AMD

Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (www.ft.com)
2025-12-8 Startup Singapore

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-8 Startup AI

Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-6 Startup AI Seattle

The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-6 Startup AI

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (www.wired.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

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