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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
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XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
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Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming
Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.
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Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows
The AI era has completely broken enterprise buying patterns, and startups haven't yet figured out how to navigate.
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Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
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Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit
The grid has been straining under the weight of new AI data centers, and that has utilities courting fusion startups.
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Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers
Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.
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Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
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Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’
Watch as Pangram co-founder and CEO Max Spero joins the Equity podcast to dig into the promise of AI detection tools and where to draw the line between AI assisted and AI generated.
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We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO
Pangram CEO Max Spero joins Equity to explain the fight to detect AI-generated content, from Substack newsletters and online fraud to the future of human writing.
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Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.
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Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
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Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen
The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.
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AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use
AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.
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Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families
Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.
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This startup is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient
Newlight has raised a $9 million seed round and completed an 8,500-nautical-mile test run from Singapore to Ghana.
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India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation
"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."
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Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma
Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.
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Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year
Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.
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