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Restaurant tech startup Owner.com, which offers AI website building, marketing, and other tools raised $120M co-led by Meritech and Headline at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-13 Startup AI

German defense tech startup Helsing unveils an autonomous underwater drone fleet, the SG-1 Fathom, powered by its AI system Lura to detect and classify sounds (t.co)
2025-5-13 Germany Startup AI Drone

Dealroom.co: content licensing and data marketplace startups like Pip Labs and ProRata have raised $215M since 2022 to help artists sell content for AI training (t.co)
2025-5-13 Startup AI

Google Launches New Initiative To Back Startups Building AI (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-13 Google Startup AI

E-commerce logistics startup Cart.com says it raised $50M, is now valued at $1.6B, is on track to cross $500M in revenue this year, and plans more acquisitions (www.axios.com)
2025-5-13 Startup Logistics

Israeli quantum computing startup Classiq raised a $110M Series C led by Entree Capital, taking its total funding to $173M since its 2020 founding (www.reuters.com)
2025-5-12 Israel Startup Quantum

A look at “AI-native” startups, which integrate AI into their workflows and team structures, allowing them to operate with fewer employees and consolidate tasks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-12 Startup AI

This Gurugram-based startup offers legal support on subscription (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-11 Startup

Lloyd's of London insurers launch a product to cover companies for losses caused by AI chatbot errors; the policies are developed by YC-backed startup Armilla (t.co)
2025-5-11 Startup AI chatbot London

Theranos Fraudster's Partner Launches His Own Blood-Testing Startup (science.slashdot.org)
2025-5-11 Startup

The Trump administration's plan to cut the budget of the NSF, considered key to US tech leadership, by ~57% to $3.9B is alarming the startup and VC sector (fortune.com)
2025-5-10 Trump Startup Budget

ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10 Startup

Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can't Afford (nexo.sh)
2025-5-9 Microservice Tax Startup

SEC filing: Sterling Anderson, CPO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Aurora, is resigning effective June 1, and will leave the board on August 31 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Startup

Sales automation startup Clay lets staff with 1+ year of tenure sell shares in a tender led by Sequoia at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Startup

A look at Silence Speaks, a British startup that has built an AI-powered sign language avatar capable of accurately translating text to British Sign Language (www.wired.com)
2025-5-8 U.K. Startup AI

OpenAI Reaches Agreement To Buy Startup Windsurf For $3 Billion (slashdot.org)
2025-5-6 Startup

European drone startups Quantum Systems raised €160M, sources say at a €1B+ valuation, and Tekever hit a £1B+ valuation, as VCs pour money into European defense (t.co)
2025-5-6 Europe Startup Drone Quantum

Sources: Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, a maker of a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1B (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2025-5-6 Startup

Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-6 Startup AI

Some international startup founders say they are canceling travel plans or reconsidering moving to the US due to Trump administration's immigration crackdown (www.newcomer.co)
2025-5-4 Trump Startup Immigration

Apple partnering with startup Anthropic on AI-powered coding platform: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-3 Startup AI Apple

Uber Inks Robotaxi Deal With Chinese Startup Momenta (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-3 China Uber Startup

Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B (www.theinformation.com)
2025-5-3 Startup

Uber partners with Chinese self-driving startup Momenta to launch robotaxi services outside the US and China, starting with Europe in early 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-3 China Europe Uber Startup

Google begins showing AdSense ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources say Google tested the ads in 2024 with startups, like AI search apps iAsk and Liner (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-2 Google Startup AI chatbot

Nvidia says Anthropic is telling “tall tales” after the startup argued for tighter export controls by saying China is smuggling chips in “prosthetic baby bumps” (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-2 China Startup Nvidia

This Bengaluru-startup's AI recruiter helps blue-collar workers find jobs (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-1 Startup AI

Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-1 Google Startup AI chatbot

Nuvo, a B2B startup that scales trade partnerships by streamlining credit approvals and more, raised a $34M Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 Startup

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