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From teenage hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing
Shay Shwartz knows a lot about email phishing attacks. As a teenager, he made money as a hacker, but after he got caught at 16, he…
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12 billion in three startups, and investors still want more
Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur known for his electrical company Rivian…
There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
The seemingly insatiable demand for AI computing has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There’s one key problem: there aren’t enough rockets to put data…
Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105 million in cash, raised only $8 million, founder says
Shadow, a 2020 Y Combinator alum founded by college dropout Kennan Frost and acquired by competitor Recharge, the the companies announced on Thursday. Both Skio and…
Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and it just raised $60 million to test
More advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence. Now can AI return the favor? Cognichip is building a deep learning model to work…
Sequen raised $16 million to bring TikTok-style personalization technology to any consumer company
On Etsy, Zoë Weil helped achieve a billion dollar increase in gross merchandise volume in a single year by improving online marketplace AI ranking systems. With…
Kevin Mandia, who founded cybersecurity startup Mandiant in 2004 and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has launched a new cybersecurity startup with…
The co-founders of startup Recursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO, are so well-known in the AI community that…
University of Texas spinout Apptronika maker of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, announced Wednesday that it has reopened its Series A to raise a…
These Gen Zers just raised $11.75 million to put Africa’s defense back in the hands of Africans
After five years of building an edtech company, Nathan Nwachuku, 22, realized that Africa was at a crossroads. The continent is undergoing rapid industrialization, he told…