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How To Reach Out To Angel Investors And Secure Investment For Your Startup
How to reach out to angel investors and secure investment for your startup You found the perfect angel investor. They've backed companies in your space. They understand your market. They even tweeted about the exact problem you're solving. Now…
Music Industry Moves: Whitney Houston Estate Partners With AI Startup Moises for Concert Experience
The estate of Whitney E. Houston, in tandem with Primary Wave Music and Park Avenue Artists, has plans to return the late singer to the stage. Notably, the estate has equipped AI stem separation technology via music creation platform Moises to…
D-ID acquires Berlin-based video startup Simpleshow
Video generation and editing platform D-ID said Tuesday that it has acquired Berlin-based B2B video creation platform Simpleshow. The companies didn't disclose financial terms of the deal. Simpleshow's product will operate under D-ID's umbrella…
What Startup CEOs Should Do After Raising Funds To Grow Their Company
Alla Adam, Investor | 3X Founder | Negotiator | Mentor | Pilot | Author at Adam Impact Institute. Robin was pacing in her Austin office, squeezing the cute plush mascot of her startup. The room was quiet. Outside, Texas summer was doing its…
CodeRabbit raises $60M, valuing the 2-year-old AI code review startup at $550M
Harjot Gill was running FlexNinja, an observability startup he co-founded several years after selling his first startup Netsil to Nutanix in 2018, when he noticed a curious trend. “We had a team of remote engineers who were starting to adopt…
This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans
While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. San Francisco-based MicroFactory built a general-purpose, tabletop manufacturing…
How I Stopped A Platform Ransom Against My Startup
Earlier this year, on a morning in January, I walked into a founder's nightmare. My company, Eat Cook Joy, which builds AI-powered tools for private chefs, was two weeks away from its public launch. For two and a half years, I had been preparing…
A startup looking to boost the creator 'middle class' just raised $4.7M. Read its pitch deck.
Clayton Jacobs, the CEO of influencer marketing company CreatorDB, thinks there can be a 'healthy middle class' of content creators. Jacobs told Business Insider that he usually recommends CreatorDB's clients go with a 'pool of medium-sized…
A new Israeli cybersecurity startup just emerged from stealth and is already valued at $400 million.
Venture investors are pouring money into Israeli cybersecurity startups. The latest is Vega, a company coming out of stealth mode that has landed $65 million in funding to take on some of the biggest incumbents in security. The funding round, led…
Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. Sue Chinese AI Startup MiniMax
Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp. 's Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. are suing Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax, accusing the company of pirating the studios' intellectual property. Founded in 2021, Shanghai-based…
Startup Using AI to Bring Whitney Houston Back on Tour 13 Years After Her Death
The estate of famed singer Whitney Houston is reviving her legendary vocals with AI for an upcoming orchestral tour, 13 years after her tragic death. The event, called 'The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration,' used 'stem separation…
Sports gaming startup Underdog bolsters C-suite days after event contracts launch
(Reuters) -Sports gaming company Underdog said on Tuesday it has hired new finance and marketing chiefs, bolstering its leadership days after it rolled out event contracts for wagering on sporting leagues. The company, which offers fantasy sports…
Robotics startup Figure valued at $39 billion in latest funding round
(Reuters) - AI robotics company Figure said on Tuesday it had received over $1 billion in committed capital in its latest funding round that valued the firm at $39 billion post money. The series C round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, and also…
Korean startups expand overseas remittance services for foreign residents
Startups in Korea are moving quickly to expand overseas remittance services targeting the country's growing population of long-term foreign residents. According to Justice Ministry data, 2.65 million foreigners were living in Korea as of the end of…
Fifty Years Requests for Startups - LessWrong
5050 is a program that helps great scientists, researchers, and engineers become great founders. It's helped launch 78 companies, and now we're turning our attention to one of the most important challenges of our time: building a safe and aligned…
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