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Snap this morning confirmed that it has acquired NextMind for an undisclosed sum. The Paris-based startup is best known for its self-titled controller, which utilizes brain signals to move images on a PC interface. After announcing a $399 dev kit at CES, the company began shipping in Q2 2020. We took it for a spin […]... →

RapidAPI, the startup that has built a platform that helps businesses find and integrate third-party APIs, as well as manage their own usage of their own internal APIs, has picked up another big round of funding of $150 million — underscoring both its growth and that of the so-called API economy, where digital services that […]... →

Scratchpad began life as an easy way to add information to Salesforce by acting as a layer that sits on top of the popular CRM application, but the startup’s founders knew it needed to be more than sales utility, and today it announced a new capability that makes Scratchpad a central workspace for sales people […]... →

Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise, has raised $115 million in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1.3 billion just weeks after emerging from stealth with $100 million in initial funding. The astonishingly fast raise was led by previous lead investor Insight Partners, and comes just weeks […]... →

Февраль 2022 года запомнится российскому венчуру не сделками, однако до того, как статус российских предпринимателей изменился, стартапы с русскими корнями активно получали инвестиции как от местных, так и зарубежных инвесторов.  Больше всего внимания привлекли сделки в сегментах FinTech, Food и Games. Всего мы насчитали более 30 сделок. Наибольшую сумму инвестиций в $114 млн получила финтех-компания Vivid Money, меньше всего в нашем списке — $200 тысяч — привлек музыкальный стартап Amadei.  В ближайшее вре... →

DeepMind — это исследовательская лаборатория искусственного интеллекта, которую Google приобрела за $500 млн в 2014 году. За последнее десятилетие она собрала ведущих специалистов в области ИИ. Выходцев из DeepMind можно сравнить с «мафией PayPal» — бывшими сотрудниками, которые стали венчурными капиталистами и основателями всемирно известных компаний. Более десятка сотрудников покинули ее, чтобы запустить собственные проекты — от НКО и энергетики до криптовалют. Рассказываем о них подробнее.... →

Dongnae, a South Korea-based startup that helps tenants find premium apartment rentals, has closed $16.4 million (20 billion KRW) in equity and $4.1 million (5 billion KRW) in debt. The Series A funding brings its total funding raised to approximately $34 million (40 billion KRW).  Investors include NFX, Daol Investment, Hana-Magna, Hana Financial, MetaProp, Fursys, […]... →

As the use of aircraft like drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and uncrewed aerial vehicles take off, Japanese startup Terra Drone wants to make sure trafficking the skies doesn’t get overlooked. “Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra […]... →

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Unstoppable Domains, a popular blockchain naming system provider, is putting together a funding round at a valuation of $1 billion, three people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup is in talks with a number of new and existing investors including Draper Associates, Coinbase Ventures, Protocol Labs and Naval Ravikant to raise about $60 […]... →

Yuga Labs, maker of the multimillion monkey NFTs that plenty of people love to hate, just raised a $450 million round from Andreessen Horowitz at a $4 billion valuation, the company announced Tuesday. The NFT firm behind Bored Apes Yacht Club has not previously raised funding though the startup has long been courting attention from […]... →

Once investors started shaving value from high-flying stocks, it changed the game for early-stage valuations, says Navin Chaddha, managing partner at Mayfield.... →

Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. Glass is a startup looking to fundamentally change how the camera works, using a much bigger sensor and an optical trick from the […]... →

Firefly Aerospace’s rollercoaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent filing with the FCC suggests. Aerospace private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) announced last month that it had reached an agreement to acquire a “significant stake” in Firefly after […]... →

Chinese startup Rokid has been through a few stages of transformation over its eight years of existence, and it’s recently raised some new funding to stay afloat. The Temasek-backed company started out as a smart speaker maker when the vertical was all the rage in China in mid-2015s, but it has in recent years put […]... →

Harness, the developer-focused startup from Jyoti Bansal, has been working hard to build a more complete modern tooling platform for developers while taking a distinct shift into open source more recently. That started with the acquisition of Drone.io in 2020. Today, the company took another open source step with the acquisition of ChaosNative, best known […]... →

Hex has been moving briskly along its startup evolutionary path with its data science collaboration platform growing at a rapid pace, so much so the company attracted the attention of fundraising mega-firm Andreessen Horowitz and a pair of key industry strategic investors, Snowflake and Databricks. Company CEO and co-founder Barry McCardel said that it’s because […]... →

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B, fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 billion. Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late. Still, […]... →

A lot of the startups you tend to hear about in the world of fintech are building solutions for consumers and businesses. Today, a startup that’s taking its aim at build tech to serve the biggest financial services users of them all — the big banks themselves and how they move money — is announcing […]... →

Команда GenerationS опубликовала список корпораций, которые готовы продолжить работу со стартапами в текущих условиях. В него вошли компании из России, занятые в различных отраслях.... →