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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

AI legal analysis startup Supio, which focuses on personal injury law across 114+ case types, raised $60M led by Sapphire, taking its total funding to $91M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 Startup AI

Identity verification startup Persona, which has 3,000+ clients, raised a $200M Series D led by Ribbit at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $417M (www.forbes.com)
2025-4-30 Startup

Giving V8 a Heads-Up: Faster JavaScript Startup with Explicit Compile Hints (v8.dev)
2025-4-30 JavaScript Startup V8

As quantum computing race heats up, 5 startups to watch beyond Big Tech (indianexpress.com)
2025-4-29 Startup Quantum

Music creation startup Splice buys London-based orchestral sound studio Spitfire Audio, a source says for ~$50M; sources say Splice has $100M+ in annual revenue (t.co)
2025-4-28 Startup London

German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in England (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-28 Germany Startup Robot

Cheap 'Transforming' Electric Truck Announced by Jeff Bezos-Backed Startup (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-4-27 Startup Jeff Bezos

Sources: Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind Manus, has discussed setting up a new HQ outside China, and separating its domestic and global businesses (www.theinformation.com)
2025-4-26 China Startup

Sources: Chinese AI startup Manus raised $75M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, and plans to expand to markets including the US, Japan, and the Middle East (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-26 China Japan Startup AI

Docs: Scale AI had revenue of $870M in 2024, missing its $1B target, and plans a $150M share sale that values the startup at around $25B, up 80% from a year ago (www.theinformation.com)
2025-4-26 Startup AI

Sources: Tencent Music is in advanced talks to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya in a $2.4B deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-26 China Startup Tencent

CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Fintech Startup

Sources: Adam Neumann's real estate startup Flow raised more than $100M from investors including a16z in a round that more than doubles its valuation to ~$2.5B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-25 Startup

Infinite Reality, a metaverse startup that claims it is valued at $15.5B, faces questions about the legitimacy of its funding, investor identities, and more (www.forbes.com)
2025-4-25 Startup

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