Startups & Funding · Other Companies

Tokenmaxxing Is Actually Good
Startups & Funding

Tokenmaxxing Is Actually Good

Tokenmaxxing highlights how enterprises are inefficiently spending their AI budgets on rebuilding existing solutions...

AI Business
Welcome To The ‘Show Me’ Era: Sapphire Ventures’ Anders Ranum On What Separates Winning AI Startups From The Rest
Startups & Funding

Welcome To The ‘Show Me’ Era: Sapphire Ventures’ Anders Ranum On What Separates Winning AI Startups From The Rest

Sapphire Ventures partner Anders Ranum discusses how institutional capital is evaluating AI startups amid the valuation...

Crunchbase News
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead
Startups & Funding

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead

AI infrastructure and cybersecurity companies dominated venture funding this week, with five of the top 10 funding...

Crunchbase News
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
Startups & Funding

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the largest foreign IPO in US history, capitalizing on the AI chip boom. The company...

TechCrunch AI
Tencent moves to buy majority stake in Manus after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion deal
Startups & Funding

Tencent moves to buy majority stake in Manus after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion deal

Tencent is in talks to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation after Beijing...

The Decoder
Prompt: AI's Next Challenge Is Making Better Use of Compute
Startups & Funding

Prompt: AI's Next Challenge Is Making Better Use of Compute

Enterprise leaders are finding that while securing AI computing infrastructure has become more accessible, effectively...

AI Business
Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?
Startups & Funding

Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

Sunrun, a solar and home energy storage company, is launching a pilot program to place AI compute nodes in customer...

The Verge AI
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork
Startups & Funding

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork

The article highlights five notable startup deals from the past month, including companies developing AI models for...

Crunchbase News
Canva targets enterprise creativity with trusted AI creative workflows
Startups & Funding

Canva targets enterprise creativity with trusted AI creative workflows

Canva is developing enterprise-focused AI creative workflows that emphasize security, compliance, and collaborative...

SiliconANGLE
Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents
Startups & Funding

Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents

Mercor.io has acquired Deeptune, a startup that builds simulated software environments for training AI agents. The...

SiliconANGLE
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
Startups & Funding

An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

Lyzr, an AI agents startup for enterprises, successfully raised $100 million in funding while using its own AI agent to...

TechCrunch Startups
AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation
Startups & Funding

AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation

Lyzr Inc., an AI agent startup, is raising approximately $100 million at a $500 million valuation. The funding round...

SiliconANGLE
DDN targets GPU efficiency with AI data infrastructure as the make-or-break layer
Startups & Funding

DDN targets GPU efficiency with AI data infrastructure as the make-or-break layer

DDN emphasizes that AI data infrastructure is critical to maximizing GPU investments in AI factory development. The...

SiliconANGLE
TheCUBE Research finds Oracle’s AI database move could unlock bigger multicloud returns
Startups & Funding

TheCUBE Research finds Oracle’s AI database move could unlock bigger multicloud returns

TheCUBE Research analysis shows that Oracle's Autonomous AI Database on Multicloud can deliver significant...

SiliconANGLE
Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
Startups & Funding

Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits

Three major AI companies—Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX—are expected to generate more combined value through upcoming...

TechCrunch AI
Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
Startups & Funding

Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie

Character.AI is expanding beyond its chatbot platform to launch c.ai Series, short-form animated videos created with...

The Verge AI
Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
Startups & Funding

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Ollama, an open source AI developer tool backed by Benchmark, has raised $65M in funding and grown to nearly 9M users....

TechCrunch Startups
Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
Startups & Funding

Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Nandan Nilekani has stepped down from his general partner role at Fundamentum as the venture capital firm launches its...

TechCrunch Startups
Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Startups & Funding

Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are investing in AI and health tech startups as part of their diversified investment...

Wired AI