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April’s Most Active US Investors Included Some Usual Suspects, And Some Unusual Ones
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and...
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Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
Legal tech startup Clio has reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue, demonstrating strong customer adoption in...
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Cerebras Sees Sizzling Demand For IPO Shares
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is going public on the Nasdaq after years of private fundraising and previously...
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Tencent plans to ramp up AI spending as China's chip supply allegedly improves
Tencent plans to significantly increase AI infrastructure spending in the second half of 2026, supported by improved...
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AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO
Red Hat's CEO highlights that enterprises are struggling to balance AI deployment ambitions with decades of accumulated...
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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
Origin Lab raised $8M in funding to create a marketplace where video game companies can sell high-quality licensed data...
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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by...
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Red Hat and Intel spotlight scalable AI inference as enterprises move beyond the GPU gold rush
Red Hat and Intel are highlighting the importance of scalable and cost-efficient AI inference systems as enterprises...
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Exclusive: Physician-Founded Saile Raises $2.2M To Help Doctors Find Side Jobs Using AI
Saile, a physician-founded startup, raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-powered credentialing and...
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Sector Snapshot: Agtech Startups Face A Drier Funding Climate
Venture funding to agriculture-related startups in 2026 is expected to remain flat or slightly decline compared to...
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AI startup Recursive emerges from stealth with $650 million to build self-improving AI
AI startup Recursive has emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding, focusing on recursive self-improvement as a...
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Celonis buys decision-intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to provide operational context for enterprise AI
Celonis has acquired decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to enhance its process mining platform with real-time...
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Nebius snaps up Clarifai’s compute orchestration tech and talent to enhance AI inference
Nebius Group has acquired the core engineering team, patents, and inference/compute orchestration technology from AI...
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CME Group and Silicon Data to launch AI compute futures market
Silicon Data, an AI compute infrastructure market intelligence startup, will partner with CME Group to launch a new...
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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M
Kevin Hartz's venture firm A* closed its third fund with $450M, taking a generalist approach to backing startups. The...
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Startup That Aims to Widen Access to Compute Draws $1.3B
An AI startup focused on democratizing access to computing power has secured $1.3 billion in funding. The company's...
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Nscale Gets $790M in Financing for Norway AI Buildout
Nscale, a neocloud startup, has secured $790M in financing to support its AI infrastructure expansion in Norway. The...
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Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released its first AI model designed to improve voice interaction by processing...
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Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
Dessn, a new startup, has raised $6M in funding to develop AI-powered design tools that integrate directly with...
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