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Venture's Zombie Startup Reckoning: Extend Runway Or Recognize Loss?
Ivan Nikkhoo is the Founder and Managing Partner of Navigate Ventures, a growth fund specializing in AI-Native Enterprise SaaS companies. Venture's 2021 and 2022 vintages left behind a large population of companies that are still operating but no…
Marc Lore's Startup Wonder Confidentially Files for IPO
The New York-based company, founded by billionaire and former Walmart executive Marc Lore, announced its latest funding round in July, a $650 million Series D at a premoney valuation of $9 billion. Lore said in an August interview with The Wall…
Legal AI startup Harvey has held early talks about an IPO
Harvey has been taking early steps toward an initial public offering. The legal artificial intelligence startup, which was recently valued at $15.5 billion, has held talks with lawyers at Latham & Watkins about going public, according to two people…
A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old, San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips, announced a million-dollar challenge for AI models to solve five critical problems in materials science. While frontier AI…
Startups Test the Waters With the 'AI Executive'
Good morning. Some scrappy startups are “employing” AI agents designed to fill senior roles at their companies, Patrick Coffee reports for the WSJ Leadership Institute. The title of vice president of marketing at SaaStr, an events…
Food delivery startup Wonder files for IPO as it explores its next big bite
Food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company after confidentially filing for an initial public offering (IPO). The company announced the filing on Thursday, marking a major milestone following years of…
GPU Shortage Puts India's AI Startups In A Bind
India's AI startups have the money to run their models, but a shortage of GPUs is delaying projects, increasing costs and limiting growth. Indian AI companies are experiencing significant delays in procuring GPUs, with deliveries taking three to…
Can an AI Agent Be Your Next CMO? At Some Small Startups, It Already Is.
Amelia Lerutte starts every workday by checking in with the AI agent that handles her old job. Lerutte is chief AI officer at SaaStr, an events company for software businesses that operates with just three full-time human employees. One of her…
A $10 billion AI startup is finding out how quickly people will hand over their wallets
Nearly 40% of users of Instinct, the viral AI personal assistant, connect their personal credit cards to the service within three weeks of using it, said its founder, Noah Shinn. Shinn shared the figure on Tuesday at Fireworks AI's Forge conference…
Drone delivery startup Zipline valued at $21.5 billion in latest funding round
Nov 5 (Reuters) – Zipline has raised $1.5 billion in its latest funding round, valuing the US drone delivery startup at $21.5 billion post-money — nearly tripling in about 10 months. The funding comes as competition in…
AI-powered insurance startup Kalepa valued at $470 million
(Reuters) — Insurance startup Kalepa said on Thursday it had raised $75 million at a $470 million valuation, as investors bet that AI solutions can speed up the slow, data-heavy work of pricing risk and writing policies. Growth equity firm…
As Big Tech bets on nuclear power, startup Uranium Digital raises $16.5 million to modernize uranium trading
As the AI boom drives demand for energy-hungry data centers, interest in nuclear power is growing—and with it, demand for the uranium that fuels reactors. But while there are large automated markets for most commodities, that's not the case…
From Startup to Stand-Up: A Former Tech Founder Wanted to Pursue Comedy - So He Sold Shares in His Career
It was just like any other pitch to investors: justify the valuation, address the risks and make lots of impressive-looking pie charts and graphs. Except this time, Pete McEntegart wasn't raising money for a tech startup, he was selling shares of…
French counter-drone startup Alta Ares wins third of NATO framework contract
Nov 5 (Reuters) – French startup Alta Ares won 6 out of 16 lots under a NATO framework contract for counter-drone systems, its largest contract to date, the manufacturer of AI-powered air defence systems said on Thursday.
SEBI Forms 18-Member Working Group to Review Startup Listing Rules
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) formed an 18-member working group to reconsider whether its startup listing platform fits research-stage and technology-intensive companies while preserving investor safeguards. Announced Nov. 4…
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