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Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 day ago Startup

Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US are a “fairy tale,” and China's open-source tech is “probably stressing” US CEOs (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago China Startup AI

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
1 day ago Startup Robot Intelligence Paris

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Google Microsoft Startup AI Nvidia

Israeli startup Claroty, which makes security tech for hospitals, manufacturing, and industrial systems, raised a $150M Series F, sources say at a $3B valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
2 days ago Israel Startup Manufacturing

South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago Korea Startup AI

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Startup Equity

Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle (www.theblock.co)
2 days ago Startup Ethereum Decentralize

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Intel Startup AI

Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; the startup has a 150-person office in Kyiv (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Startup Ukraine

Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (en.globes.co.il)
3 days ago Israel Startup

Chinese AI startup Zhipu says it is limiting GLM Coding Plan access after strong demand, taking only 20% of its current daily new subscriptions from January 23 (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago China Startup AI

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Startup Drone

Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its valuation; Nvidia invested $150M (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400+ tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $355M valuation (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago Startup AI

Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago Startup

French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago France Startup

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (inc42.com)
4 days ago Startup Robot

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (news.crunchbase.com)
8 days ago Fintech Startup

Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup

AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension from Accel and others at a $1.3B+ valuation, and reports a $200M annualized revenue run rate (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Startup

Belgian startup Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised $60M led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Startup Belgium

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe (fortune.com)
10 days ago Fintech Startup

Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

CrowdStrike acquires Israel-based browser security startup Seraphic, a source says for around $400M; Seraphic has raised around $37M in total (www.calcalistech.com)
10 days ago Israel Startup Browser

A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Startup

A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (www.piratewires.com)
11 days ago Tax Startup California

Finnish Startup IXI Plans New Autofocusing Eyeglasses (tech.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Startup Finland

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