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Elastic reportedly acquires site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI
Elastic NV has reportedly acquired Deductive AI Inc., a startup with a platform that helps enterprises fix errors in their technology infrastructure. TechCrunch on Thursday cited a source as saying that the deal is worth up to $85 million. That's reportedly more than double the valuation Deductive r
Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding
Seattle-based startup Gradial today revealed it has raised $65 million in a new round of funding to accelerate the development of its agentic artificial intelligence operating system for marketing. Today's Series C round was first reported by Axios and led by Insight Partners, bringing the startup's
Architect Labs nabs $24M to speed up chip design projects with AI
Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc. launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. Kindred Ventures led the seed round. It was joined by Perplexity AI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aravind Srinivas, Transformer co-inventor Lukasz Kaiser, former OpenAI Group PBC ex
Prem seeks $100M Series A as export bans boost sovereign AI demand
Swiss artificial intelligence startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, Bloomberg reported today. The round is expected to close in the third quarter. Prem sells software for running AI models on a company's own infrastructure, not a cloud p
Game-clip AI startup General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at $2B valuation
General Intuition PBC is in talks to raise about $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, TechCrunch reported today, citing people familiar with the talks. The New York-based startup uses video game footage to train artificial intelligence agents to navigate physical space. The price tag
Dream raises $260M for its sovereign AI and cybersecurity tools
Dream Security Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity software for governments, today announced that it has raised $260 million in funding. Bicycle Capital and Group 11 jointly led the investment. They were joined by several other institutional backers including Bain Capital
Context is becoming the missing layer in enterprise AI
The enterprise AI market is entering a new phase. For the past several years, the focus has been on larger models, faster inference and broader deployment of generative AI capabilities. Yet despite growing investment, many organizations continue to struggle with governance, accuracy, operational sca
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no team
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the "inference gold rush" marches on.
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same
AT&T Ventures' Head Vikram Taneja On The New Rules of Seed-Stage Defensibility
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Vikram Taneja, head of AT&T Ventures, shares why he believes that while AI has drastically lowered the barrier to building
The Professor of Outputmaxxing - Anjney Midha, AMP
We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!
Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
Crypto Clipper spreads over USB and communicates over Tor.
Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.