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Germany’s Instagrid, which uses software to supercharge portable batteries, raises $95M

Energy supply is one of the bigger issues impacting how technology will evolve over time — a challenge that might ...
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Plural, the VC led by founders, pulls together a new $432M fund to back European startups

European VC Plural has carved out a reputation for itself as one of the few VC’s in the region started and led by ...
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Vertice raises $25M for AI-based tools to help companies tackle software spend

When you say the phrase “expense management” in a business context, people might think of software like Conc...
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Xyte stirs up $30M to enable any hardware maker to build subscription products

The hardware industry is under pressure these days: slower spending cycles from consumers and businesses, market saturat...
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Prometeo raises $13M from PayPal, Samsung and more to bring open banking to Latin America

Open banking — where traditional banks can share data, and build new services, by way of APIs that bring their age...
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D-Orbit raises $110M to reach new heights in space logistics services

Logistics has become the cornerstone of how so much works on earth — we may order things online, but ultimately we...
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Finn raises $109M on a $658M valuation, taking its car subscription platform up another gear

Finn, a startup based out of Munich that operates a platform for new car subscriptions — an alternative to buying ...
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Sources: PhotoRoom, the AI photo editing app, is raising $50M-$60M at a $500M-$600M valuation

Apps that let users take, manipulate and share images have been some of the biggest hits in the world of mobile over the...
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As Twitter/X rivals explode, news aggregator SmartNews struggles to retain users

News aggregator app SmartNews had a tough 2023, beginning with widespread layoffs in January and wrapping up with a lead...
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Podimo raises €44M to turn up the volume on its Netflix-style podcasting platform

We are fast approaching half a billion people listening to podcasts, and today one of the independent players hoping to ...
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Meltwater, the media monitoring startup, gets a $65M investment from Verdane

Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and b...
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Google Nest Renew and OhmConnect merge into “Renew Home” with a $100M boost from Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners

Another development today in Google’s long-term strategy to streamline some of its less-core business operations. ...
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Guardz collects $18M to expand its AI-based security platform for SMBs

Thanks to advances in AI, small and medium businesses have become a significant target in the world of cybercrime, accou...
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Durable cements $14M to build bots and other AI tools for small businesses in service industries

Builders, bakers and body conditioners might not be the first trades that come to mind when you think about how AI is tr...
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PwC is acquiring Surfaceink, the hardware designer that was once a close partner of Apple’s

A lesser-known but significant player in the Silicon Valley tech world is getting acquired today — a move that und...
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SumUp taps €285M more in growth funding to weather the fintech storm

SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the ...
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UK’s CMA is looking at whether Microsoft and OpenAI tie-up is a ‘relevant merger’

The whirlwind management drama at OpenAI last month ended with co-founder Sam Altman reinstated within a week of his sur...
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European neobroker Scalable Capital raises $65M on a flat $1.4B valuation

Scalable Capital, a Munich startup that aims to make investing in financial markets accessible to a wider range of consu...
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Mine digs up $30M for its no-code approach to vetting data privacy

Israeli startup Mine made a name for itself a few years ago with a tool designed for consumers to quickly run an audit o...
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Foretellix raises $85M to build and test scenarios for self-driving systems

On their way to building fully-autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs t...
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SoftBank Corp takes 51% of Cubic Telecom for $513M to drive into the connected car world

As automakers and technology companies continue to build ever-more sophisticated digital platforms into cars and other v...
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NomuPay, formed out of Wirecard’s ashes, acquires Total Processing for tooling and customer service

NomuPay — the payments startup that was formed out of some of the healthier pieces of the dramatically failed fint...
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Squint peers at $13M led by Sequoia for AR aimed at B2B to interact with physical objects

Apple’s and Google’s move into smart augmented reality several years ago, creating ways for people to use th...
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Dataminr, the $4B big data startup, is laying off 20% of staff today, or 150 people, as it preps to double down on AI

It’s a tough day for Dataminr, the New York-based big data unicorn last valued at $4.1 billion. TechCrunch has lea...
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European startup funding halved to $42B in 2023, says Atomico

The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events &#8212...
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PhysicsX emerges from stealth with $32M for AI to power engineering simulations

A lot of the buzz these days in artificial intelligence is around generative AI and how AI is being used to accelerate s...
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Black Friday online buying hits a record $9.8B in the US, $70.9B globally

A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales...
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Adobe: Thanksgiving US online sales nudge up to $5.6B; Salesforce: $31.7B spent globally

Thanksgiving Thursday, when stores in the U.S. are closed and many are spending time off work, has become the de facto s...
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Emmett Shear, the ex-Twitch CEO tasked with stabilizing OpenAI, has some spicy social history

Emmett Shear, the interim CEO of OpenAI, may be out of a job by the end of the hour, day or week given how fast and unex...
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DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes

Back in January, Google made some waves — soundwaves, that is — when it quietly released some research on AI...
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