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techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation
AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation
TechCrunch

AI law startup Norm on Tuesday said it has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the almost three-year-old startup at $1.2 billion. Norm has built an AI-native law firm, called Norm Law, that uses the…

techcrunch.com - Sean O'Kane - This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car
This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car
TechCrunch

Selling a car is a pain. You can take the easy route and use services like Carvana, but you may wind up with thousands of dollars less than your car is worth. Or, you could hope for more by going to a dealership, but the dealer's offer can vary…

fastcompany.com - Adele Peters - This startup spent 2 years redesigning the toothpaste tube into a toothpaste pump
This startup spent 2 years redesigning the toothpaste tube into a toothpaste pump
Fast Company

The toothpaste tube is the type of badly designed everyday object that tends to go unnoticed: It's messy, the crumpled tubes look bad on a countertop, and tens of billions of the single-use plastic packages end up in landfills each year. But it's…

bloomberg.com - Guinevere Grant - AI Legal Startup Norm Valued at $1.2 Billion in Funding Round
AI Legal Startup Norm Valued at $1.2 Billion in Funding Round
Bloomberg

Norm Ai has raised $120 million from investors in a new funding round to help automate legal services and rethink how the industry bills for its work. The financing, set to be announced Tuesday, values the startup at $1.2 billion. Khosla Ventures…

crunchbase.com - Joanna Glasner - North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI
North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI
Crunchbase

North American venture investment hit all-time highs in the first half of 2026, driven by late-stage megarounds for AI industry leaders, Crunchbase data shows. If that introductory sentence sounds familiar, that's because it's the same storyline we…

fortune.com - Lily Mae Lazarus - The $1.2 billion startup that wants to become Amazon Prime for savings
The $1.2 billion startup that wants to become Amazon Prime for savings
Fortune

In 2022, Hussein Fazal flew 200 of his employees to Las Vegas to cash a $200 check at a payday loan shop. He then asked them to buy a week of groceries for a family on what was left so they could understand their customers' experience. His company…

bloomberg.com - Eyk Henning - Google and RWE Back German Nuclear Startup Proxima Fusion at €2.4 Billion Valuation
Google and RWE Back German Nuclear Startup Proxima Fusion at €2.4 Billion Valuation
Bloomberg

German startup Proxima Fusion has raised €411 million ($469 million) from a range of investors, including national energy firm RWE AG and Alphabet Inc.'s Google, to develop a nuclear fusion plant it hopes will be operational in the 2030s.

cnbc.com - Kai Nicol-Schwarz - Google backs nuclear fusion startup targeting Europe's first commercial power plant
Google backs nuclear fusion startup targeting Europe's first commercial power plant
CNBC

Google backed Proxima Fusion in a €411 million, or $468 million, funding round. Proxima is targeting Europe's first commercial fusion power plant. The company aims to have a fusion demonstrator running in the early 2030s. Google has backed…

koreatimes.co.kr - Lee Hyo-jin - Woori Financial Group unveils $4.5 bil. investment roadmap to support startups
Woori Financial Group unveils $4.5 bil. investment roadmap to support startups
The Korea Times

Woori Financial Group on Tuesday unveiled a roadmap to invest 7 trillion won ($4.5 billion) in innovative companies, detailing a financing system that supports startups from seed funding through initial public offerings (IPOs) as part of its…

coindesk.com - Jesse Hamilton - U.S. SEC to propose crypto rule as soon as this month to ease startups, fundraising
U.S. SEC to propose crypto rule as soon as this month to ease startups, fundraising
CoinDesk

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is set to tackle a new crypto rule proposal as soon as this month that would shield crypto businesses from securities regulatory demands in significant ways, according to an updated agenda flagged on…

reviewjournal.com - Todd Dewey - Las Vegas-based medical device startup finds 'holy grail'
Las Vegas-based medical device startup finds 'holy grail'
Las Vegas Review-Journal

A medical device startup with a lab in Las Vegas has developed a previously elusive method of blood pressure monitoring. Vena Vitals, which launched out of the University of California, Irvine, and is incubating at Roseman Bioventures, makes a…

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - Encryption management startup Keyfactor raises $1B+ in funding
Encryption management startup Keyfactor raises $1B+ in funding
SiliconANGLE

Keyfactor Inc., a provider of software tools that help enterprises encrypt their data, has raised more than $1 billion from investment firm Summit Partners. The company announced the deal on Monday. Keyfactor's other institutional backers, which…

fortune.com - Catherina Gioino - Meet the former Goldman Sachs exec who became the America's Cup Partnership's first CEO and is running the 175-year-old trophy like a startup
Meet the former Goldman Sachs exec who became the America's Cup Partnership's first CEO and is running the 175-year-old trophy like a startup
Fortune

On July 4th weekend, the America's Cup—sailing's oldest trophy, first won by a New York yacht in 1851—returned to the Hudson River for the first time in nearly two centuries. The Italian Navy's historic 1931 tall ship, the Amerigo…

makeuseof.com - Afam Onyimadu - I turned off Windows Fast Startup and my boot time barely changed - but 3 persistent bugs disappeared
I turned off Windows Fast Startup and my boot time barely changed - but 3 persistent bugs disappeared
MakeUseOf

Windows' Fast Startup is one of the best examples of a disruptive setting. It's enabled by default and was the cause of my Linux partition not mounting, my dock randomly disconnecting, and an update getting stuck in a loop. Disabling it had no real…

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - Barracuda Networks acquires access management startup Evo Security
Barracuda Networks acquires access management startup Evo Security
SiliconANGLE

Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that it has acquired Evo Security Inc., a startup with a platform for managing employee access to business applications. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Campbell, California-based Barracuda is a…

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