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AI audio startup ElevenLabs launches a tender offer to let staff sell up to $100M in stock at a $6.6B valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in January 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-9 Startup AI

Quantum computing startup Infleqtion agrees to merge with a Michael Klein-led blank-check company, giving it a $1.8B pre-money valuation and $540M in funding (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-8 Startup Quantum

Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, setting an AI copyright floor price (spyglass.org)
2025-9-8 Startup AI

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (t.co)
2025-9-8 Europe Startup

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-8 Alibaba Startup AI Robot Shenzhen

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-9-8 Startup Robot

Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense (t.co)
2025-9-7 Europe Fintech Startup AI

OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup whose tool lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-6 Startup AI Apple

WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-9-5 Startup AI

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; the startup, founded in 2019, develops the Dia browser, now in beta (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-4 Startup Browser Atlassian

Israeli startup Sola, which develops AI-based low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers (www.resiliencemedia.co)
2025-9-4 Israel Startup AI

At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Samsung and startups like Doma are expected to showcase how AI could make smart homes more intuitive (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-4 Google Amazon Samsung Startup AI

Bengaluru-based FirstClub, a grocery delivery startup prioritizing quality over speed, raised a $23M Series A led by Accel and RTP Global at a $120M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 Startup

Bengaluru startup Upliance AI launches next-gen smart cooking device priced at Rs 39,999 (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-4 Startup AI

Finnish quantum computing startup IQM raised a $320M Series B led by Ten Eleven at a $1B+ valuation, and plans a US expansion and to scale its data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-3 Startup Finland Quantum

AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-3 Startup AI

Nvidia acquires Solver, a three-year-old AI coding agent startup formerly known as Laredo Labs, which had raised $8M from Radical Ventures and other investors (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-3 Startup AI Nvidia

OpenAI To Acquire Product Testing Startup Statsig, Appoints CTO of Applications (slashdot.org)
2025-9-3 Startup

An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (fortune.com)
2025-9-1 Interview Startup

Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-1 India Mobile Startup

AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-31 Startup AI Salesforce CRM

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-28 Startup Netherlands

As ‘vibe coding' becomes Silicon Valley's latest catchphrase, Bengaluru startup promises enterprise app development in minutes (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-28 Startup

Sources: cloud startup Vercel is raising hundreds of millions of dollars led by Accel at a valuation of about $9B, up from about $3B in a round last year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-28 Startup

A profile of Egune AI, a startup building LLMs for the Mongolian language, as it navigates geopolitics, a lack of resources, and the nascent local tech scene (restofworld.org)
2025-8-27 Startup AI

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup “copied and stored” their content without permission (t.co)
2025-8-26 Japan Startup AI Tokyo

AI infrastructure provider Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-8-24 Israel Startup AI

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney, to license the startup's “aesthetic technology” for Meta's future models and products (x.com)
2025-8-23 Startup

Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-22 Google Startup

Autonomous driving tech startup Nuro closed its $203M Series E at a $6B valuation, adding $97M from Uber, Nvidia, and others to April's $106M tranche (t.co)
2025-8-21 Uber Startup Nvidia

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