When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, theyβll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add AI solutions into their ongoing business processes.Β But there are some exceptions. And one of them appears to be an area known as AI sales development representatives, or AI SDRs. [β¦]
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Real estate venture firm Fifth Wall is raising a new $500 million fund called Fifth Wall React, according to a regulatory filing.
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Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, raised $100 million Series B at a post-money valuation of $2.6 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. The round is being led by returning investor Thrive Capital, the person said.Β This new funding comes just four months after Anysphere raised its $60 million Series [β¦]
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Earlier this year, IVP general partner Tom Loverro proclaimed that the post-pandemic downturn is over, and companies that made it this far should prioritize growth over cost-cutting. Yet, the companies still struggling to raise their next round of financing at a higher valuation or survive altogether could still be in the thousands, according to Brian [β¦]
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Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour confirmed on a podcast interview that his employees asked social media influencers to promote memes about the FBIβs raid on the home of his archrival, the CEO of Polymarket.Β Both companies offer competing events-betting markets, a new kind of betting industry where people wager about the outcomes of events ranging from [β¦]
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These startups have fascinating new technologies, business models, founder stories or are pushing an industry forward in exciting ways.
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Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by todayβs enterprises. βItβs very hard to find good site reliability engineers. Thereβs [β¦]
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Tiger Global famously fueled the pandemic-era venture capital boom, investing heavily in a wide range of startups, setting up bidding wars for even the most unproven startup that led to sky-high valuations. In 2021 alone, the hedge fund backed 315 startups, according to PitchBook data. And much of the VC industry was not happy about [β¦]
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The OpenAI Startup Fund discloses its biggest SPV yet, but is staying quiet on what it's for.
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Many VCs, particularly newer firms, readily admit that 2024 has been a challenging year for raising fresh capital. Dimension Capital, a two-year-old venture outfit, had a different experience when raising its second fund.Β Β βEvery investor from fund one came back very quickly,β said Zavian Dar (pictured center), one of the firmβs three founders and managing [β¦]
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Although heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, a significant portion of people who experience heart attacks are unaware that they have the underlying condition. Cleerly, a cardiovascular imaging startup, hopes to fix this. By analyzing CT scans of the heart, the companyβs AI software aims to identify early-stage coronary [β¦]
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/dev/agents, a new company by the developers of Android, believes a new operating system is needed to fully realize the potential of AI agents.
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Vikram Bhaskaran was leading creator partnerships at Pinterest when his father started showing early symptoms of ALS, a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disease. βIt turned my world upside down,β Bhaskaran said. He worked during the day, and spent his evenings Googling the illness and treatment options and in Facebook groups. But Bhaskaran discovered that finding clear, [β¦]
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Michael Gilroy, a former head of fintech investments at Coatue, and Gokul Rajaram, a longtime tech executive and prolific angel investor, are forming a yet-to-be-named venture firm and plan to begin fundraising toward a $400 million to $500 million debut fund early next year, Bloomberg reported. The firm will invest in U.S.-based early-stage fintech and [β¦]
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MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, less than a year after raising its $25 million seed round.Β Spark Capital led the investment, valuing the company at a pre-money valuation in the mid-$200 million range and a post-money valuation in [β¦]
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Shiva Suri gained a unique perspective into how radiologists work when he quarantined and shared a home office with his mom, a well-regarded radiologist. βI watched her work day in and day out, and she was wasting about seven to eight hours on boring workflow tasks,β Suri said. βOnly 5% of her time, she had [β¦]
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