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Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 week ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/9/2026

NYC startups Covariance and TradeZing secured funding on 3/9/2026, with Covariance raising $11M for machine learning and TradeZing raising $800K for AI-powered social investing.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 week ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/5/2026

NYC startups secured significant funding on 3/5/2026, with Sage raising $65M Series C for senior care platforms, Antioch raising $8.4M for robotics simulation, and Traversal raising $5M for AI-powered incident management.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
8 hours ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/18/2026

NYC startups secured significant funding on 3/18/2026, with BusRight raising $30M for school bus operations, Sea12 Technologies raising $25M for workflow automation, and Sequen raising $16M for AI-powered personalization.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 day ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/17/2026

NYC startups secured multiple funding rounds on 3/17/2026, with Conduit Health leading at $17M Series A, followed by PEX Card's $9.7M and Besty AI's $3.75M funding.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
6 days ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/12/2026

NYC startups secured significant funding on 3/12/2026, with Grafana Labs raising $250M, Xscape Photonics $37M, and Translucent $27M across observability, semiconductors, and healthtech sectors.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 week ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/11/2026

NYC startups secured significant funding on 3/11/2026, with VAST Data leading at $500M, followed by Moxie and PactFi at $25M each in Series C and Series A rounds respectively.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 week ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/9/2026

NYC startups Covariance and TradeZing secured funding on 3/9/2026, with Covariance raising $11M for machine learning and TradeZing raising $800K for AI-powered social investing.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 week ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/5/2026

NYC startups secured significant funding on 3/5/2026, with Sage raising $65M Series C for senior care platforms, Antioch raising $8.4M for robotics simulation, and Traversal raising $5M for AI-powered incident management.
Information security
fromFortune
20 hours ago

Exclusive: RunSybil, a startup using AI to automate penetration testing, raises $40M in VC funding in round led by Khosla Ventures | Fortune

RunSybil secured $40 million in funding to deploy AI agents that autonomously conduct continuous penetration testing on live software systems to identify security vulnerabilities.
Women in technology
fromTechCrunch
1 day ago

AI's 'boys' club' could widen the wealth gap for women, says Rana el Kaliouby | TechCrunch

AI industry lacks diversity with male-dominated leadership and funding, creating economic disadvantages for women entrepreneurs and widening gender wealth gaps.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 days ago

Legalweek 2026: The AI Bubble Literally Pops - Above the Law

Legal AI startups Harvey and Legora command massive valuations despite competition from major AI players like Anthropic and OpenAI, raising questions about sustainability and potential acquisition strategies.
fromFast Company
5 days ago

AGI isn't the 'Holy Grail' for women in AI. It's gender-purpose AI, and it's already here

There is a new wave of women who refuse to wait for the AI industry to become "fair" and "equal." They are building their own companies, on their own terms, with a more authentic and purpose-driven design mentality. It's not general-purpose AI; it's gender-purpose AI.
Venture
#ai-startups
Venture
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year - here they are | TechCrunch

Multiple startups achieved unicorn status in 2026, with AI semiconductors, autonomous systems, healthcare, crypto, and energy storage companies reaching $1 billion valuations.
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Startup companies

More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 - here they are | TechCrunch

AI-driven startups dominate recent unicorn births while notable satellite and blockchain companies also achieved billion-dollar valuations.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year - here they are | TechCrunch

Multiple startups achieved unicorn status in 2026, with AI semiconductors, autonomous systems, healthcare, crypto, and energy storage companies reaching $1 billion valuations.
Venture
fromTNW | Startups-Technology
1 week ago

Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation

Legora, a Stockholm-based AI legal platform, reached a $5.55 billion valuation in under two years, raising $550 million in Series D funding and expanding rapidly across global markets with 800 customers.
Venture
fromTNW | Startups-Technology
1 week ago

DealFlowAgent raises $750,000 to automate small business M&A

DealFlowAgent, an AI-native investment bank for small business M&A, raised $750,000 from prominent venture backers to address information gaps in business sales by combining human advisers with AI agents that track buyer preferences and streamline deal processes.
Venture
fromPrivacy International
1 week ago

Dual-use tech: the Skydio example

Skydio transitioned from consumer drones to defense-focused manufacturing, securing major US military contracts and achieving $2.2 billion valuation by 2024.
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

A married founder duo's company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups | TechCrunch

We're not building software for customers. 14.ai is an AI-native customer service agency. We combine software and services in one package. For customers, operating software is hard, especially for customer service. We take over their entire operation, and we use our own purpose-built stack for customer service.
Miscellaneous
European startups
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks ago

European startups raised 12.4 billion in Q2 2025 as investor confidence quietly rebounds - Silicon Canals

European startups raised €12.4 billion in Q2 2025, the strongest quarterly performance since late 2022, driven by investor shift from defensive caution to calibrated conviction and reactivation of growth-stage capital.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Dwelly, an AI startup snapping up U.K. real estate agencies, gets $93 million to fuel expansion | Fortune

We have crossed 10,000 properties under management, placing Dwelly among the UK's top 15 largest letting agencies in less than 2 years - an unseen speed of growth for letting agencies. The company currently manages more than £200 million in gross rent and aims to reach 50,000 properties under management by the end of this year, which would make it a top-five agency in the U.K.
London startup
Relationships
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

The golden age of dating apps is over. Now finding a match can cost $20 a month.

Dating apps have shifted from free platforms to heavily paywalled services since the pandemic, reducing match quality while increasing costs that users pay despite diminishing returns.
Artificial intelligence
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons

Venture capital funding links Pentagon-directed autonomous weapons development to investors profiting from Israeli actions in Gaza, exemplified by Shield AI's X-BAT program.
fromTheregister
3 months ago

Radiant bags $300M-plus to commercialize its microreactors

The company expects to break ground on an SMR manufacturing plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee next year. "This funding enables us to build our factory and keep to our DOME schedule, where we will achieve a self-sustained chain reaction on a reactor designed by, built by, fueled by, and operated by Radiant alongside our partners at the Idaho National Lab," Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer said in a canned statement.
Venture
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
5 months ago

Don't fear the AI bubble, it's about to unlock an $8 trillion opportunity, Goldman Sachs says | Fortune

Wall Street analysts view the AI investment boom as sustainable due to expected productivity gains and continued capital spending on data centers and chips.
Healthcare
fromTechCrunch
6 months ago

Exclusive: Assort Health nabs $50M at $750M valuation from Lightspeed to automate patient phone calls, sources say

Assort Health raised about $50 million at a $750 million valuation to scale AI voice agents that automate patient communication for specialty healthcare practices.
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