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Why Joining The Right Startup Is So Important: A Guide For Graduates
Vikram Joshi, Founder and CTO at pulsd —a company in the business of democratizing fun in New York City. The allure of the startup world is attractive for recent graduates. The idea of rapid career acceleration, equity and a dynamic…
Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
A years-long lawsuit between the college-focused social app Fizz and rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices has taken an interesting turn. In a new filing, Fizz is accusing investor Jerry Lu, who is with venture capital firm Maveron, of…
SpaceX and AI startup wealth fuels demand for private jets
Aviation lawyer Amanda Applegate skipped her annual vacation last month as a surge of wealth from AI startups and SpaceX sent a wave of tech investors shopping for private jets, burying her in paperwork for aircraft-purchase agreements. The…
Ex-Banker With 'Boring' AI Startup Pleads Guilty in Insider Case
Arya Bolurfrushan left Wall Street in 2008 to go to Harvard Business School. A decade after graduating the university, where he published a paper on private equity in the Middle East, he founded his own startup, AppliedAI, based in Abu Dhabi. He…
Startup testing nuclear battery technology in orbit
WASHINGTON — A Florida startup has launched what it says is the first commercial demonstration of a nuclear-powered satellite technology, testing a power source that could allow future spacecraft and autonomous sensors to operate for years…
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals that may have flown under the radar. Check out our previous entry here. Our inboxes overflowed with interesting deals in the past month, but we managed to sift through…
Israeli startup to build world's first 'Iron Dome for drone swarms'
Skapion, an Israel defense tech company developing a Native Counter Swarm system for the next generation of unmanned aerial threats, announced Thursday that it raised $36 million during its Seed round. The round was co-led by UP.Partners and Khosla…
Apple talking to a startup that could cram GPT-class AI into your iPhone
Apple's on-device ambitions just got more interesting. The company has reportedly been talking to a startup that claims to run a massive, server-grade language model on the iPhone 17 Pro — no cloud required. If it holds up, it would be a big…
Cloud Star DoiT On Buying Startups, AI 'Tokenomics' Shift And AWS BVR Competency
DoiT has acquired five companies over the past 18 months as the channel star dives deep into AI cost management innovation and drives billions in AWS sales as it achieves AWS' new Business Value Realization (BVR) Competency. The Santa Clara…
Autonomous ship startup Kraken raises $175M at $1B valuation
Kraken Technology Group Ltd., a British defense startup that makes autonomous ships, has raised $175 million in funding. Private equity firm DTCP led the Series B deal. It was joined by the UK government's British Business Bank, the NATO Innovation…
AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation
Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal has drawn $400 million worth of interest from…
Market data platform startup Databento closes $97M round after drawing $300M in investor demand
Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ran past $300 million, according to the company…
Tencent in talks to become AI startup Manus' largest shareholder, sources say
Chinese gaming and internet company Tencent is in talks to become Manus' largest shareholder as investors seek alternatives after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the AI startup…
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) Partners With IMSA Labs To Launch AI Startup Program Powered By Live Motorsport Data
Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) has been named the Founding Partner of IMSA Labs, a new innovation platform created by the International Motor Sports Association to connect startups with live racing environments. The centerpiece of the partnership…
Web data scraping infrastructure startup Oxylabs reels in $130M in its first ever funding round
Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped company has ever sought outside funding, and…
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