Ex-Googler’s Yoodli triples valuation to $300M+ with AI built to assist, not replace, people
Yoodli, an AI-powered communication training startup, has reached a valuation of more than $300 million — more than triple its…
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X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D
Nuclear startup X-energy raised $700 million in a Series D found, the company told TechCrunch. The new fundraise comes less…
Agentio secures $40 million from Forerunner as it scales its creator marketplace beyond YouTube
Views on sponsored videos on YouTube have risen 28% year-on-year, and the number of sponsored videos has grown by 54%…
Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework
Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization….
Lovable says it’s nearing 8 million users as the year-old AI coding startup eyes more corporate employees
Lovable, the Stockholm-based AI coding platform, is closing in on 8 million users, CEO Anton Osika told this editor during…
Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text
With so much money flooding into AI startups, it’s a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea…
Ventures Platform, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors, has raised another $64 million
Lagos-based Ventures Platform, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors, has raised $64 million so far for its second fund,…
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta
Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as…
YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot
Adam, one of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 million seed round…
India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months on its quick house-help bet
India’s appetite for instant convenience — once confined to food and grocery delivery — is expanding into house help. That…
Flipkart’s Super.money teams up with Kotak811 to make India’s free UPI payments pay
India’s free digital payments revolution has upended how money moves — but not how fintechs make it. Now, Flipkart’s fintech…
How Prankster Oobah Butler Convinced Venture Capitalists to Give Him Over $1 Million
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyNot long into his new documentary, Oobah Butler tells the cofounder of his newly…
Shuttle raises $6 million to fix vibe-coding’s deployment problem
The promise of vibe coding was that full-scale applications could be spun up from just an idea, powered by systems…
Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai already raised at $4B+ valuation
Fal.ai, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new round valuing the…
European AI rising star Nexos.ai raises €30M to unlock enterprise AI adoption
For most enterprise companies, AI is either a promise that has yet to deliver or a security risk. The effort…
YC alum Cercli, an AI-powered Rippling for MENA, raises oversubscribed $12M Series A
In a region long defined by fragmented enterprise systems, outdated compliance tools, and HR software that rarely talks to finance,…
Apple and Formula 1 ink five-year US streaming deal, bringing all races to Apple TV
Apple announced on Friday that it has secured exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to Formula 1. The new five-year agreement between…
India’s Kuku snags $85M as mobile content wars intensify
Kuku, an Indian storytelling platform backed by Google, has raised $85 million in fresh funding as it aims to scale…
Prezent raises $30 million to acquire AI services firms — starting with founder’s other company
Prezent, a startup that offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, said today that it has raised $30 million in…