With $3.5M in fresh funding, a Bay Area startup is building photorealistic synthetic data pipelines in hours, not months, for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Hungarian-founded startup tackling one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks: data scarcity in defense, aerospace, […]

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It’s May 22, 2025, and we’re back with your daily funding rundown, where the capital’s flowing, who’s cutting the checks, and which startups are stepping into the spotlight. From federated AI and longevity biotech to concrete decarbonization and crypto identity, […]

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Seven years after selling their online pharmacy startup PillPack to Amazon for around $1 billion, TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen are back with a new idea—this time, they’re going after the broader healthcare experience. The two just launched General Medicine, […]

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Google’s I/O may have grabbed headlines, but OpenAI just got an io of its own — the stealthy AI device startup co-founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI announced Wednesday that it’s acquiring Ive’s AI hardware venture in a […]

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On May 20, 2025, Google introduced Veo 3 at its I/O event, showcasing a major leap in AI-generated videos. Built to create hyper-realistic footage with synchronized audio, Veo 3 quickly became the talk of the internet, not for its technical […]

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It’s May 21, 2025, and we’re back with your daily funding rundown—where the money’s going, who’s writing the checks, and which startups are making moves. From fintech and AI to sustainability and biotech, today’s batch covers a lot of ground. […]

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Back in late 2023, reports began circulating that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had teamed up with legendary Apple designer Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on a stealth AI hardware project. Now, five months later, we’re finally getting a clearer […]

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Shopify just made it a lot easier for merchants to set up an online store. The e-commerce giant on Wednesday introduced a new feature called AI Store Builder, which lets users generate a fully designed e-commerce site just by entering a […]

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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced Monday that it’s buying “substantially all” of 23andMe’s assets for $256 million. The deal comes just weeks after the once buzzy DNA testing startup, once valued near $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to Regeneron, […]

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Airwallex, the Melbourne-born fintech that built its name on cross-border payments, has raised $300 million in a Series F round, pushing its valuation to $6.2 billion. The round includes $150 million in secondary share sales and features some heavy hitters: […]

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It’s Tuesday, May 20, 2025, and the funding firehose is wide open. We’re back with your daily rundown of the boldest bets and biggest checks fueling the future of tech. Today’s lineup features a wave of innovation across fintech, AI, […]

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On May 6, OpenAI acquired AI coding startup WindSurf for $3 billion, its biggest deal yet. Less than two weeks later, Microsoft quietly open-sourced AI-native features in Visual Studio Code, making the core AI editor freely accessible and allowing forks […]

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TrustCloud, a security assurance platform that leans heavily on AI to make life easier for enterprise security teams, just raised $15 million in strategic funding. The round was led by ServiceNow Ventures, with backing from Cisco Investments, Presidio Ventures, OpenView […]

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Elon Musk said Tuesday he’s committed to leading electric-vehicle maker Tesla for at least the next five years. He made the comment during an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum in Abu Dhabi.  “Yes, no doubt about that at all,” […]

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CATL shares jumped 16% in their first day of trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange after the Chinese EV battery giant raised $4.6 billion in what’s now the biggest listing of 2025. The stock closed at HK$306.20, up from […]

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It’s Monday, May 19, 2025. Hope you had a great weekend. We’re back with your daily rundown of the biggest startup funding moves in tech. Today’s deals span everything from cancer-fighting biotech and AI-powered drug discovery to high-speed network infrastructure […]

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The team behind Visual Studio Code shared a major update: VS Code is officially becoming an open-source AI editor. Microsoft is making the GitHub Copilot Chat extension open source and bringing AI features directly into the core editor, all under […]

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Huawei has just launched its first laptops running its own HarmonyOS, marking its biggest move yet to break free from Western tech stacks and chip restrictions. The MateBook Pro and foldable MateBook Fold Ultimate Design, revealed Monday in Chengdu, are […]

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Nvidia on Monday announced a wave of updates at Computex 2025, headlined by the launch of “NVLink Fusion,” new silicon that opens its AI ecosystem to non-NVIDIA chips. The move signals a strategic shift as the company looks to strengthen […]

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Less than a month after reporting a record $1.4 billion profit for 2024, British fintech unicorn Revolut is doubling down on European expansion. The company announced on Monday plans to invest €1 billion ($1.1 billion) in France over the next […]

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