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In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcoming, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more (www.axios.com)
1 day ago Trump Elon Musk

IAB: full-time US digital creator jobs grew from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5M in 2024; the internet-supported economy accounts for 18% of US GDP, up from 2% in 2008 (www.axios.com)
2 days ago GDP

Salsa, which provides APIs and UI components that let vertical SaaS platforms offer payroll as a feature to their customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Altos (www.axios.com)
5 days ago SaaS

NYC-based Healthee, whose AI assistant Zoe lets its clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $50M Series B led by Key1 Capital (www.axios.com)
5 days ago AI Insurance

Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more (www.axios.com)
7 days ago Tax

Bethesda, Maryland-based AuthMind, which offers observability-based identity protection services to enterprises, raised a $19.3M seed led by Cheyenne Ventures (www.axios.com)
9 days ago

Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M (www.axios.com)
12 days ago Energy

API-based background check provider Checkr acquires income and employment verification startup Truework, which had raised $125M+ and was last valued at ~$480M (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Startup

The DOJ and 17 US states that brought the antitrust case seek to force Google to sell off its “network” ad business, which is ~12% of Alphabet's total revenue (www.axios.com)
15 days ago Google Alphabet

AI safety and security startup Virtue AI raised $30M in seed and Series A funding and says its customers include several frontier labs, Uber, and Glean (www.axios.com)
17 days ago Uber Startup AI

Meta adds Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick, who worked as deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term, to its board (www.axios.com)
21 days ago Trump

Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Optilogic, a supply chain software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by NewRoad Capital and launches a tariff optimization tool (www.axios.com)
21 days ago

Sources: the board of directors of clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle let its CEO remain after fraud allegations and took months to warn investors (www.axios.com)
25 days ago Startup

President Trump posts that the US will impose additional tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9, unless China withdraws its 34% retaliatory tariffs (www.axios.com)
25 days ago Trump China

Sources: CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization platform that had raised $530M+, is almost broke and is accusing its founder of financial misconduct (www.axios.com)
2025-4-1

Brooklyn-based Underdog, a fantasy sports and sports betting app, raised $70M in a first Series C tranche at a $1.23B valuation from Spark Capital (www.axios.com)
2025-3-29

NY-based Silna, which provides healthcare revenue cycle management software, emerges from stealth with a $22M Series A co-led by Accel and Bain and a $5M seed (www.axios.com)
2025-3-26

StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023 (www.axios.com)
2025-3-22 IPO

Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week (www.axios.com)
2025-3-22 Yahoo

Philadelphia-based Proscia, which provides pathology digitization software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners and others, taking its total funding to $130M (www.axios.com)
2025-3-20

Taboola strikes a deal with Microsoft to sell display ads for MSN.com, Outlook, Games, Office products, and more, as it expands beyond native advertising (www.axios.com)
2025-3-19 Microsoft

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lumafield, which manufactures industrial CT scanners with cloud-based analysis software, raised a $75M Series C led by IVP (www.axios.com)
2025-3-15

Klarna reports 2024 revenue up 24% YoY to $2.81B, a net profit of $21M, compared with a net loss of $244M a year ago, and 93M active consumers (www.axios.com)
2025-3-15

GSR, one of several VC firms rebuked in 2024 over China investments, splits its China business from its US business, which is renamed as Informed Ventures (www.axios.com)
2025-3-14 China

President Trump nominates Sean Plankey, the director of cyber policy at the White House during the first Trump administration, to run CISA (www.axios.com)
2025-3-12 Trump

NYC-based Firsthand, whose tools let marketers and publishers engage consumers through AI agents on their own sites or other sites, raised a $26M Series A (www.axios.com)
2025-3-9 AI

US State Department officials say they launched an effort to use AI to review social media accounts of foreign students to revoke visas of “pro-Hamas” students (www.axios.com)
2025-3-7 AI

Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations (www.axios.com)
2025-3-7 Trump

NYC-based Odeko, which sells smart operations software to independent coffee shops and cafes, raised a $126M Series E, including $96M in equity and $30M in debt (www.axios.com)
2025-3-5 Equity

At a press conference with Trump, TSMC CEO CC Wei says the company plans to invest $100B+ in the US over four years, in addition to its current $65B investment (www.axios.com)
2025-3-4 Trump

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