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How an ex-DeepMind researcher raised a $300 million seed valuation before launching a product
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing that visual AI was the frontier on which he wanted to stake his claim. It took a whirlwind fundraising that…
Why Greylock limited its new fund to $1.5 billion when it says it could have raised more
While many top venture firms continue to raise massively larger funds, Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most prestigious venture firms, is purposefully bucking…
Humanoids aren’t quite ready to replace factory workers, but industry can’t wait. Faced with labor shortages, manufacturers have shown growing interest in startups that promise faster…
This chip startup just raised $135 million on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t computation — it’s memory
Every time you ask a question in ChatGPT, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing, travels to…
Oceans – to state the obvious – are big. This makes it difficult for governments, shipping companies and insurance providers to know exactly what is happening…
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…