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January was such a long month that it already brought us five fresh European unicorns: from Belgium to Ukraine, several tech startups raised funding at valuations…
A few years ago, Selina Tobaccowala’s daughter started leaving post-it notes around the house, telling everyone to “turn off the lights” and such. Tobaccowala had just…
Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale AI with on-device deal doubling valuation to $400 million
As demand grows for enterprise privacy AI that can operate without sending sensitive data to the cloud, SpotDraft raised $8 million from Qualcomm Ventures in a…
Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling and cathode manufacturing startup scales a new energy storage business to power artificial…
Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama
Many in the industry believe that the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…
From the outside, Upwind Security appears to have had a smooth ride so far. Just four years later, the cloud security startup is now worth $1.5…
AI tagging startup Handshake has acquired data tagging startup Cleanlab, the companies tell TechCrunch. Handshake started in 2013 as a platform for recruiting college graduates and…
AI security startup Outtake raises $40 million from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman and other big names
Outtake, which builds a cybersecurity platform to help businesses detect, investigate and eliminate identity fraud, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round. While that…
People around the world now spend hours a day on their smartphones. On average, daily smartphone use exceeds three hours, and for many adults, total screen…
By Rotation, one of the UK’s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, announced a partnership with ride-sharing app Uber on Wednesday. From now until May 31st,…