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Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-7-17 Israel Startup AI

Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17 Europe Startup AI Sweden

Big Tech acquihiring AI startups, like Meta's Scale AI deal, gives VCs only modest returns compared to traditional exits and may entrench Big Tech's dominance (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17 Startup AI

Saudi startup Lucidya, which develops customer experience software, raised a $30M Series B led by Impact46, marking the largest AI funding round in the kingdom (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17 Startup AI

Israeli subterranean mapping startup Exodigo raised a $96M Series B led by Zeev Ventures and Greenfield Partners, taking its total funding to $214M (siliconangle.com)
2025-7-16 Israel Startup

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO, targeting a $4B+ valuation and aiming to raise $510M+, set to float by 2025's end (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-16 China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-16 China Startup AI

Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12 billion in early-stage funding (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-16 Startup AI

Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup that launched only in February, raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, and AMD also invested (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-16 Startup AI Nvidia Cisco AMD

PitchBook: US startup funding surged 75.6% YoY in H1 2025 to $162.8B, the strongest since H1 2021, driven by AI and on track for the second-best year ever (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-15 Startup AI

How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China, patriotism, and the pursuit of profit (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-15 China Startup

OpenAI loses Windsurf as Google swoops the AI startup's CEO, team, and tech for $2.4B (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-12 Google Startup AI

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-7-12 India IPO Startup

Meta has completed a deal to acquire AI voice technology startup PlayAI, and the “entire PlayAI team” is set to join Meta next week, per an internal memo (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-12 Startup AI

The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, which means that Windsurf is free to explore other options (fortune.com)
2025-7-12 Startup

Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China (www.theinformation.com)
2025-7-12 China Startup

Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-source model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-12 China Startup AI

Sources: Alibaba-backed Chinese AI startup Zhipu plans to raise ~$300M in an IPO in Hong Kong, after previously considering listing in mainland China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-11 China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba Startup AI

Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-11 Startup AI Mathematics

Foundation EGI, an “engineering general intelligence” startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks, raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital (siliconangle.com)
2025-7-11 Startup Intelligence

OpenAI closes its nearly $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products after a trademark lawsuit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada, saying Delaware's Court of Chancery “can at times appear biased against technology startup founders” (a16z.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

OpenAI officially closes its ~$6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products, after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

ServiceUp, a vehicle repair process automation startup, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to nearly $70M (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-7-9 Startup

The Startup-Filled Coder 'Village' at the Heart of China's AI Frenzy (slashdot.org)
2025-7-7 China Startup AI

An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data shows that in 2025 so far at least 36 tech startups hit a $1B+ valuation, including seven in June and six in May (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-7 Startup

Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, has become a hub for Chinese AI startups, with the suburb Liangzhu emerging as a hotspot for coders in their 20s and 30s (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-7 China Alibaba Startup AI

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (www.cnbc.com)
2025-7-6 Tax Startup

Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-6 Startup

PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded (www.axios.com)
2025-7-5 Startup AI

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