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Exclusive: This $100 million startup wants to give companies AI employees
At the San Francisco-based startup Anything AI, there's a robust team that seems like any fast-growing startup's organizational chart. There's Emma, who investigates reported bugs across logs, databases, and code, then drafts the reply; Otis, who…
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
Elon Musk's SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition as it works to catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI race, Bloomberg reported Wedesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Cognition CEO Scott Wu disputed the…
Makers Fund raises $250m in fourth round to support interactive entertainment startups
Venture capital firm Makers Fund has secured $250 million to invest in startups advancing games and interactive entertainment. This brings its total assets under management to $1.5 billion. Founded in 2016, Makers Fund raised $180 million in its…
Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn't a…
With Tourism Stalled, Hawaii Chases the Startup Wave
KAILUA, Hawaii —The seaside streets bear the unmistakable look of a Hawaiian beach town, an oasis of palm trees, swimsuits and surfboards. Yet tucked behind a café where baristas make $11 lattes, young workers write code, design…
How one startup is recovering copper from old mines that were left for dead in the 1980s
In central Arizona, about 90 miles east of Phoenix, an old open-pit copper mine sits full of water. The mine closed in the 1980s, left to accumulate rain and groundwater. These “pit lakes,” as they're called, are monitored so that…
From Humanities To AI: How Ali Hussain Built Fintech Tabs Into A $400M Startup
Ali Hussain spent much of his childhood in his family's St. Paul, Minnesota, convenience store, where he packed cigarette cartons and watched his father run a business seven days a week, 365 days a year. Hussain was the son of a first-generation…
Hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises $1 billion
WASHINGTON — Castelion, a defense-tech startup seeking to mass produce lower-cost hypersonic weapons, has raised more than $1 billion in new financing as it moves to expand missile production and develop a broader portfolio of offensive and…
Exclusive | Carlyle Joins $1 Billion Investment Round in Missile Startup Castelion
Missile-making startup Castelion closed a more than $1 billion funding round co-led by private-equity giant Group, reflecting blue-chip firms' growing interest in a booming corner of the defense industry. California-based Castelion said it would…
Discord gave this startup a direct line to Gen Z. Then it built around what it heard.
Before Yeet had a finished dating app, it had a Discord server. The dating startup launched its “Founder Club” before the product was fully defined and invited young users to talk about what annoyed them most about online dating. The…
Kochi-based startup launches 103 new Malayalam fonts
In 2016, a group of youngsters from Bigdates.ai, a Kochi -based startup, founded an application called Malayalam Text & Image Editor, an efficient tool to make meme-designing in Malayalam easier. Content creators and other users could log in to the…
£200,000 prize up for grabs in record Scottish startup competition
The award has been made possible through a £1 million investment from Royal Bank of Scotland, which will support the Scottish EDGE programme over the next three years. The new funding is designed to help ambitious entrepreneurs develop their…
Coinbase's Base Is Betting Big on AI Agents With $100K Startup Accelerator
The team behind Base, Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network, is narrowing its startup accelerator to 10 teams for its latest cohort, with each selected company receiving a $100,000 investment upfront, Coinbase announced on Wednesday. Applications for…
Application reliability startup Temporal reportedly in talks for $500M funding round - SiliconANGLE
Temporal Technologies Inc., a fast-growing developer tooling provider, is reportedly in talks to raise about $500 million from investors. Bloomberg on Tuesday cited sources as saying that the round could value the company at more than $12 billion.
Sanja Fidler's world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding - SiliconANGLE
Veeda AI, a startup led by a team of former Nvidia Corp. researcher and renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has taken its bow on the main stage after raising $90 million in a seed funding round today. The round, which was first reported by…
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