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This startup wants to turn idle car inventory into rental revenue
When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he sees a wasted opportunity. “Millions and millions of used cars are sitting on parking lots, depreciating and losing value,” Dobrianskyi said in a recent interview, adding that…
Get Access is building an exclusive club for startup investing
A new startup wants to give wealthy tech insiders access to some of the hottest private-company deals. Get Access has launched a platform that pools money from individual investors so they can invest together in later-stage startup funding rounds…
Kevin Mandia's new 'agent swarm' security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation
Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant, which sold to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has raised $255.5 million for his latest startup, Armadin, at a valuation of more than $2.5 billion, the company announced on…
Nuclear Startup Funding Is Up, But The Sector's Public Markets Take A Bearish Turn
Funding to nuclear power-focused startups hit an all-time high this year, fueled by expectations of surging energy demand around artificial intelligence. Optimism around IPO prospects, however, has taken a hit recently amid weakening public market…
Why ServiceNow built a startup inside itself to take on AI-native rivals
For two years, ServiceNow's challengers have built businesses around frustrations with its software. Their pitch centers on two complaints: Implementations take too long, and employees increasingly expect help inside tools they already use rather…
Michael Kassan Invests in $80M Startup OptimizeGEO
ADWEEK House: Advertising HQ brings the people shaping advertising, commerce, and media together for four days of unscripted conversations and after-hours connections. Meet us in Midtown, Oct. 5–8. The MediaLink founder has personally…
Exclusive | AI Cyber Startup Armadin Raises $255 Million
Cybersecurity startup Armadin has raised $255.5 million to boost the production of artificial-intelligence agents trained to pinpoint security flaws cybercriminals are most likely to exploit—in part by attacking its customers with swarms of…
Kevin Mandia's AI Cyber Startup Raises Another $255 Million
Hello. Cybersecurity startup Armadin has raised $255.5 million to boost its force of AI agents trained to find security flaws cybercriminals are most likely to exploit—in part by attacking customers with swarms of autonomous hackers. Total…
A Korean American Duke Professor Leads a Highly Promising Public Quantum Computing Startup
In the race to build a quantum computer useful enough to change industries, the loudest names tend to be the companies: IBM, Google, Microsoft, Quantinuum, Rigetti, D-Wave and IonQ. Each company is betting on a particular way of coaxing the…
Live Nation Backing New Creator Economy Startup Creator Nation (Exclusive)
Live Nation is making an aggressive push into the business and management of the creator economy, funding a new firm called Creator Nation that will provide support to creators around content, commerce, brand partnerships and live experiences, with…
Kidinyou, a Thiruvananthapuram-based startup, creates handcrafted wooden board games
Mohammed Azharudheen, Flemin Fernandez, Arif Ali, Riyas Shajahan, and Ashiq Samad became friends at Cordova Public School in Ambalathara, Thiruvananthapuram, in 2002. After class, the group would kick back to enjoy tea and snacks until they had to…
Startup Seeks More Than 450 Nuclear Reactors on Utah Public Land to Power a Data Center Complex
A nuclear startup is proposing to place some 456 small reactors on public land in central Utah to power a massive data center campus, according to documents reviewed by NPR and reported Sept. 30. The plan, which Valar Atomics calls Project Beehive…
Salesforce to acquire AI customer research startup Listen Labs in reported $2B deal - SiliconANGLE
Salesforce Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire artificial intelligence customer research startup Listen Labs Inc., three weeks after reports first surfaced that the two companies were in talks. Business Insider broke the news of the…
Fifth Third Debuts Innovation Banking for Startups and Growth Companies
Fifth Third Innovation Banking, announced in a news release Thursday (Oct. 1), combines the bank's Newline embedded banking platform with the tech and life sciences franchise from Comerica, which merged with Fifth Third earlier this year.
Nebius acquires 10-month old Israeli startup Inferize
AI infrastructure company Nebius (Nasdaq: NBIS) announced today that it has acquired Israeli startup Inferize. Sources tell 'Globes' that the acquisition is for between $100 million and $130 million. This is a particularly swift exit for a company…
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