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18:00 14.01.2025

Boardy AI raises $8M seed round months after closing pre-seed

Months after announcing a $3 million pre-seed, the AI networking startup Boardy is back with an $8 million seed announcement led by Creandum. The company connects users with other people when they call an AI agent who chats with them for a bit and then connects them with others it thinks they ought to know. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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13:26 14.01.2025

Bioptimus raises $41M to develop a ‘GPT for biology’

A fledgling French AI startup has raised $41 million to develop a foundational AI model for biology. Just as OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm for a super-smart generative AI tool capable of natural language conversation in text form, Bioptimus is taking that basic concept but training its model specifically for downstream biological […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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20:00 13.01.2025

Raspberry AI raises $24M from a16z to accelerate fashion design

The world of fashion is moving at a faster pace each year. Most retailers introduce new styles each season, and fast-fashion companies like Shein, H&M and Zara update their collections continuously. To keep pace with the rapid demand for new styles, brands and manufacturers have been turning to tech to accelerate their design process. Raspberry […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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19:56 13.01.2025

A 24-year-old who exited his first company to Coinbase, raises $3M for his next venture

At 24 years old, Pryce Yebesi already has one exit: selling his crypto invoicing company Utopia Labs to Coinbase for an undisclosed amount. Some founders don’t just have one company in them. On Monday, Yebesi announced the launch of his new company, OpenLedger, which embeds automated accounting software into products enterprises and small businesses already […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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03:01 13.01.2025

UK in-home healthcare provider Cera raises $150M to expand its AI platform

Around the world, public healthcare systems have struggled to reset post-pandemic, and in particular, the increasingly aged populations in Western countries are putting pressure on services, not least in the UK where ‘NHS in crisis’ is a regular headline in the media. As a result, private companies, many powered with technology, see a gap in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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21:00 10.01.2025

Overhaul raises another $55M to help companies like Dyson and Microsoft fight supply chain theft

Businesses dependent on the physical supply chain — the network of facilities and transportation systems used to move materials from one location to another — chain face a number of challenges, from staff shortages to increasing customer expectations. The pressures aren’t easing up. According to a survey from Prologis, a real estate investment trust, two-thirds […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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03:49 10.01.2025

Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing AI agents

Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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02:41 10.01.2025

Defense startup Epirus in talks to raise over $150M, potentially cutting valuation

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14:44 09.01.2025

Xocean raises $119M to capture ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels

Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), has raised €115 million ($119 million) as it looks to expand coverage to additional sectors. Founded in 2017, Xocean has built a fleet of remotely-controlled USVs that can remain offshore for long periods of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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13:00 09.01.2025

Defiant is a new European VC firm that uses data and products to make better investments

Defiant is a new early stage VC firm focused on B2B SaaS and fintech coming out of stealth today. Joseph Pizzolato (pictured right) and Cam Rail (pictured left), the duo at the helm of the firm who met when they were six years old, have already secured $30 million and plan to raise as much […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:00 08.01.2025

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raises $265M, pinning valuation at nearly $5B

Whatnot, the platform that allows users to sell items such as trading cards, comics, and sneakers through live videos, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $265 million in a Series E funding round, a significant investment for a livestream shopping platform. This round puts Whatnot’s valuation at $4.97 billion. The investment marks an important […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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09:36 08.01.2025

Nomupay raises $37M on a $200M valuation to build payment rails in underserved markets across Asia

Wirecard, a German fintech that raised hundreds of millions of dollars only to collapse in 2020 in a sea of scandal and insolvency, still makes headlines today as lawsuits continue against different entities and people once connected to the business. Meanwhile, a Dublin-based startup called Nomupay that was formed in 2023 out of some of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:57 07.01.2025

Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed

OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, would bring Anthropic’s total raised to $15.7 billion, going by Crunchbase’s data. It would also […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:11 07.01.2025

Serve Robotics raises additional $80M as it scales sidewalk delivery robots

Nvidia and Uber-backed Serve Robotics has raised $80 million in a direct offering of 4.2 million shares of common stock. This is on top of the $86 million in gross proceeds Serve raised collectively December 2024 through a combination of a previously filed at-the-market facility and exercise of warrants. The sidewalk delivery robot company, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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20:00 06.01.2025

RoboForce raises $10 million to create a robot workforce

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04:00 06.01.2025

Birdfy sees your smart bird feeder and raises you a smart birdbath

Smart bird feeders are very 2020. Smart birdbaths are clearly where it’s at. This week at CES 2025, Birdify is showcasing the Bath Pro, taking a cue from products like the Bird Buddy and applying them to a big saucer of water with a solar-powered fountain in the middle. Two versions of the product will […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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03:30 06.01.2025

Accel could raise billions for India, but it’s sticking to $650 million

Accel has maintained its India fund size at $650 million for its eighth vehicle, even as other venture firms in the region are racing to raise increasingly larger pools of capital. The firm had ample opportunity to raise “multi-billion dollars,” said Shekhar Kirani, partner at Accel, in an interview with TechCrunch. But unlike peers who […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:11 03.01.2025

Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen

Electra has raised $76.3 million to clean up the dirty ironmaking industry, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has developed a novel method of using electricity to coax pure iron out of low-grade ores, opening the door to cleaner steel. The new funding round, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing, seeks to raise a total […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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01:42 03.01.2025

Peter Thiel-backed venture debt firm Tacora raises $268.7M for new fund

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13:30 30.12.2024

Calo raises $25 million to expand its ready-to-eat meal service beyond the Middle East

A business built around increasingly customized ready-to-eat meals has netted Middle Eastern startup Calo a sizeable funding injection as it looks to expand both what it can offer its time-strapped customers and where it delivers its growing range of just-heat-to-eat dishes. The meal delivery market in the Middle East will hit $11.2 billion by 2030, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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