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Spanish Startup Xoople Lands $130M to Build Satellites for AI
Spanish startup Xoople has secured $130M in funding to develop satellites for AI applications. The company aims to...
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The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets
Family offices are increasingly bypassing traditional venture capital firms to invest directly in AI startups, shifting...
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Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder from OpenAI
Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus has hired Kyle Kosic, a co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI who recently worked at OpenAI....
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Credit Card Backed By Mineral Rights, Flying Ferries, And A Foundation AI Model For Plants
The article highlights five interesting startup funding deals from the past month, including companies working on...
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AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost
Rocket, an AI startup, has launched a platform that generates strategy and competitive intelligence reports similar to...
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OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund
Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund founded by OpenAI alumni, is raising $100 million for its inaugural fund and has...
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Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI
Spain-based Xoople raised $130 million in Series B funding to develop Earth mapping technology for AI applications. The...
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Telehealth startup Medvi generated billions in revenue with AI-powered fake advertising
Medvi, a two-person telehealth startup, generated $1.8 billion in revenue using AI-powered marketing, though the...
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Grammarly’s sloppelganger saga
Grammarly has rebranded to Superhuman, an AI company, marking a significant pivot from its well-known browser extension...
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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
Moonbounce, founded by a Facebook insider, has raised $12 million for its AI control engine that translates content...
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Neocloud Pioneer CoreWeave All In on Inference
CoreWeave, a GPU-as-a-service vendor, is evolving its business focus to concentrate on AI inference services. The...
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Exclusive: Miravoice, Builder Of An AI ‘Interviewer’ To Conduct Phone Surveys, Raises $6.3M
Miravoice, a startup developing AI voice agents to conduct long-form phone surveys, has secured $6.3 million in seed...
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Exclusive: Anvil Robotics Raises $5.5M to Build ‘Legos for Robots’ Platform For Physical AI Teams
Anvil Robotics, an eight-month-old startup building a modular platform for robotics development, has raised $5.5...
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Sector Snapshot: Venture Funding To Foundational AI Startups In Q1 Was Double All Of 2025
Foundational AI startups raised $178 billion across 24 deals in Q1, double the $88.9 billion raised in all of 2025 and...
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The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse
Delve, a Y Combinator startup with an already troubled reputation, faces new allegations of violating open source...
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Startup funding shatters all records in Q1
Startup funding reached record levels in Q1, driven primarily by four mega-deals involving OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and...
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Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To $300B
Q1 2026 saw record-breaking venture funding with $300 billion invested across 6,000 startups globally, driven by...
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Nvidia Invests $2B In Custom Chip Vendor Marvell Technology
Nvidia invests $2 billion in Marvell Technology in a strategic partnership to integrate Marvell's XPU chips with...
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The Largest Recent Seed Rounds Are All For AI Companies
The largest seed funding rounds in the past six months have predominantly gone to AI companies, particularly those...
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