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17:31 22.07.2024

Cohere raises $500M to beat back generative AI rivals

Cohere, a generative AI startup co-founded by ex-Google researchers, has raised $500 million in new cash from investors including Cisco, AMD and Fujitsu. Bloomberg says that the round, which also had participation from Canadian pension investment manager PSP Investments and Canada’s export credit agency EDC, values Toronto-based Cohere at $5.5 billion. That’s more than double […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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05:40 22.07.2024

Инвестиции в фитнес-клубы выросли на 70%

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22:27 18.07.2024

Why it made sense for an online community college to raise venture capital

When Tade Oyerinde first set out to fundraise for his startup, Campus, a fully-accredited online community college, it was incredibly difficult. VCs have backed for-profit education companies in the past, including Coursera and Udacity, but backing a more traditional two-year college is different. Plus, he was looking for funds a few years ago when higher […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:00 18.07.2024

Fintech startup Coast lands $40M just 4 months after its last $25M raise

Coast, a startup that describes itself as “a financial services platform for the future of transportation,” has raised $40 million in Series B funding — just four months after announcing a $25 million round, the startup has told TechCrunch exclusively. Back-to-back fundraises were common prior to and during the wild investment days of 2021, but […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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12:00 18.07.2024

Artificial Agency raises $16M to use AI to make NPCs feel more realistic in video games

A team of former Google DeepMind researchers are betting that their unique behavior engine for NPCs will make games more fun and dynamic. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:00 17.07.2024

Shaped raises $8M Series A and launches its self-serve recommendations and search service

Whether it’s an online marketplace, store, or social media platform, virtually every site today uses some kind of recommendation service to personalize its offerings. Shaped, which is announcing an $8 million seed funding round today, wants to make it easier for businesses of all sizes to combine the data they already have with large language […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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14:00 17.07.2024

Matera raises $100M from Warburg Pincus to help the US catch up to Brazil in instant payments

To say that Pix, the instant payment system created by the Central Bank of Brazil, has been a resounding success is an understatement. With Pix, money moves directly between core banking systems of different financial institutions. Adoption has been widespread and ubiquitous. The country’s residents have the ability to even pay street vendors using the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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14:00 17.07.2024

Kandji raises another $100M for Apple device management as valuation rises to $850M

At a time when many startups have struggled to raise money and keep their heads above water, Kandji, an Apple device management platform, has been an exception. Founded in 2019, it has raced through its funding rounds like a precocious child, raising over $188 million along the way. Today it added to that total with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 16.07.2024

A company building Wordle for chess raises money from a16z Speedrun, Mark Pincus and Eric Wu

Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early stage games accelerator), founder of Zyanga Mark Pincus, South Park Commons (SPC), Opendoor founder and CEO Eric Wu and Stef Corazza, the Head of Generative AI at Roblox. Sami […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:00 16.07.2024

Exa raises $17M from Lightspeed, Nvidia, Y Combinator to build a Google for AIs

While there’s no shortage of startups aiming to replace Google with AI-powered search, a startup called Exa has a different idea. Search for the AIs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:00 16.07.2024

Female-founded startups have raised $15.5 billion so far this year but that’s not really good news

The reality of the situation is that startups with all women founders will still probably raise 2% of venture capital funding this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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03:00 16.07.2024

Lhoopa raises $80M to spur more affordable housing in the Philippines

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22:01 11.07.2024

Shark Tank-backed Kudos raises another $3M for healthier, cotton-based disposable diapers

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18:15 11.07.2024

Defence AI startup Helsing raises $487M Series C, plans Baltic expansion to combat Russian threat

Defence AI startup Helsing has raised €450 million ($487 million) in a Series C financing round led by General Catalyst. It now plans to expand its presence in European nations bordering Russia. The announcement came as NATO held its annual summit in Washington, DC, where the Russian invasion of Ukraine is high on the agenda. As […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:28 11.07.2024

Medal raises $13M as it builds out a contextual AI assistant for desktop

Medal, a startup that is better known for its video game clipping product, just announced that it has raised $13 million at a valuation of $333 million from several investors, including Horizons Ventures, OMERS Ventures, peak6 and Arcadia Investment Partners. The company also unveiled Highlight, a new cross-platform desktop app that acts as a contextual […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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11:00 11.07.2024

Uzbekistan mobile bank TBC raises $38.2M to expand its financial products

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03:36 11.07.2024

Beeble AI raises $4.75M to launch a virtual production platform for indie filmmakers

Visual effects (VFX) have emerged as essential in filmmaking and have transformed storytelling and creativity in the film industry with its diverse digital techniques. However, the high cost of VFX tools often leaves independent filmmakers and content creators working with modest budgets struggling to compete with larger productions. A new company, Beeble AI, is turning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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09:01 10.07.2024

Deep tech startups with very technical CEOs raise larger rounds, research finds

SaaS founders trying to figure out what it takes to raise their next round can refer to Point Nine’s famous yearly SaaS Funding Napkin. (The term refers to “back of the napkin” plans or calculations.) Now, European hardware deep tech teams have a similar resource from First Momentum, a pre-seed fund investing in technical B2B […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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07:00 10.07.2024

Index Ventures raises $2.3 billion for new venture and growth funds

Index Ventures is announcing $2.3 billion in new funds to finance the next generation of tech startups globally. These new funds are spread across different stages with $800 million dedicated to venture investment and $1.5 billion set aside for growth and late-stage companies. How do these funds compare to the previous ones? In 2021, Index […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:43 08.07.2024

Valuations of startups have quietly rebounded to all-time highs. Some investors say the slump is over.

Generative AI businesses aside, the last couple of years have been relatively difficult for venture-backed companies. Very few startups were able to raise funding at prices that exceeded their previous valuations. Now, approximately two years after the venture slump began in early 2022, some investors, like IVP general partner Tom Loverro, are saying that the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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