IT総合 Benchmark invests $19M in New Lantern, a smarter way for radiologists to use AI
Shiva Suri gained a unique perspective into how radiologists work when he quarantined and shared a home office with his ...
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IT総合 IT総合 OpenAI investor Josh Kushner praises Musk, despite Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit
Elon Musk may be suing OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning the company’s original mission as a nonprofit or...
IT総合 Healthcare VC firm Initiate has a new $45M and has already founded five startups internally
Jessica Owens and Iana Dimkova, co-founders of Initiate Ventures, are launching their new healthcare/ life sciences-focu...
IT総合 Tech leaders recommend colleagues for Trump’s cabinet
Some tech investors and executives have been trying to influence the incoming Trump administration to appoint Silicon Va...
IT総合 Amazon scraps secret fertility-tracking project
Amazon has shut down a four-year-old secret program working on a fertility monitoring device and accompanying smartphone...
IT総合 Stepful raises $31.5M to address healthcare staffing shortage with AI-powered training
Carl Madi spent a chunk of the last decade working for Uber and Handy, an online marketplace for cleaners. “I spen...
IT総合 Quantune joins quest for the holy grail of non-invasive glucose monitoring
Berlin-based Quantune is trying to shrink laser spectrometers so that you can wear one on your wrist, and it just raised...
IT総合 VCs on how to ‘survive and thrive’ after a down round
Founders hope that their startups continually raise larger funding rounds at escalating valuations. But unexpected chall...
IT総合 Benchmark, Index, others are in a wild unsolicited bidding war over Anysphere, maker of Cursor
There isn’t a shortage of AI-powered coding assistance startups. They include Augment, Codeium, Magic, and Poolsid...
IT総合 UnifyApp’s AI-powered app integration platform grabs $20M from ICONIQ Growth
These days, it seems like every company either wants to or is already offering an AI product or service. For startups bu...
IT総合 Coatue is raising $1B for AI bets
Coatue Management, a hedge fund that invested heavily in tech startups during the pandemic-infused boom, is raising $1 b...
IT総合 Coatue is raising $1B for AI bets
Coatue Management, a hedge fund that invested heavily in tech startups during the pandemic-infused boom, is raising $1 b...
IT総合 Anduril is considering Arizona, Ohio, or Texas for its massive manufacturing facility, source says
Anduril, the defense tech company co-founded by Palmer Luckey, is considering building its first major manufacturing pla...
IT総合 Kalshi secures tens of millions in loans from VCs, eyes $50M+ round amid election betting boom, source says
Investors are rushing to throw millions at a hot startup called Kalshi as loans or even as unusual we’ll-figure-it-out l...
IT総合 Salva Health wants to lower breast cancer mortality with its affordable screening device
Six years ago, while researching for a college entrepreneurship competition, Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling ga...
IT総合 Despite risks, Vinod Khosla is optimistic about AI
Vinod Khosla has no doubts that humanity’s future with AI is bright. The Sun Microsystems co-founder turned promin...
IT総合 YC startup Pharos lands a $5M seed led by Felicis to bring AI to hospital quality reporting
Medical and administrative staff are increasingly overwhelmed with piles of paperwork they have to fill out every day. D...
IT総合 Zoom partners with Suki to offer AI-powered medical note-taking
Zoom is partnering with Suki, an AI medical note-taking app, to let doctors use an AI scribe that will take notes of the...
IT総合 Benchmark is raising $170M for its latest partners-only fund
While fund sizes of many venture capital firms have ballooned into billions of dollars over the last decade, Benchmark P...
IT総合 General Catalyst reportedly to back Saudi Arabian startup
Despite Saudi Arabia’s record of human rights abuses, some investors are warming up to investing in the country’s startu...
IT総合 After selling Drift, ex-HubSpot exec launches AI for customer success managers
Elias Torres has achieved a lot for somebody who immigrated to the US from Nicaragua at 17 without knowing any English. ...
IT総合 Our favorite startups from Pear VC’s invitational demo day
Pear VC, a prominent seed-focused venture firm, invites about 20 startups per semi-annual sessions to its coveted PearX ...
IT総合 Former Product Hunt CEO Josh Buckley is looking to raise a fourth $250M fund
Josh Buckley, the former CEO of Product Hunt, is aiming to raise a fourth $250 million fund for his venture capital firm...
IT総合 Khosla Ventures just backed OpenAI with $405M more, but not necessarily with its own capital
Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. Based on the filing alone, Khosla’...
IT総合 Numeric grabs $28M Series A to automate accounting using AI
Just five months after it raised a $10 million seed round, Numeric has raised a $28 million Series A led by Menlo Ventur...
IT総合 Unify, an OpenAI Converge accelerator grad, lands $12M for ‘warm outbound’ messages
Unify, an AI-powered startup that uses data to reach prospective buyers, has raised a $12 million Series A led by existi...
IT総合 General Catalyst is working on a ‘continuation’ fund worth up to $1B, sources say
General Catalyst, one of Silicon Valley’s largest capital firms, is gearing up to launch what’s known as a “contin...
IT総合 Investors are scrambling to get into ElevenLabs, which may soon be valued at $3 billion
ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors abou...
IT総合 Venture firm CRV returns $275 million citing overvaluation of mature startups
CRV, a more than 50-year-old venture firm, is returning to investors $275 million from its $500 million Select fund, whi...
IT総合 11x.ai, a developer of AI sales reps, has raised $50M Series B led by A16Z, sources say
11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, ...