Tag: funding
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Flapping Airplanes has raised $1 billion nine months after a $180 million seed, and its main claim is its own
The year-old lab says its approach needs far less data and compute, and TechCrunch could not verify it.
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Bedrock Robotics is said to be raising $600 million at $3.5 billion, double its February price
The autonomous digger maker is reportedly pitching data-centre construction, and the terms come from a report, not the company.
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A one-year-old missile startup raised $25 million after a dozen test launches on its first $5 million
Furientis says its interceptors cost a fraction of the $3 million incumbents, and has not said what fraction.
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Safeworld raised $12 million to test whether AI robots will hurt people, by simulating the people
Nobody can prove with mathematics that a learning robot is safe, so the startup runs thousands of virtual accidents instead.
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Spiko raised $90 million to sell tokenised cash funds, and says it is already bigger than BlackRock at it
The French-founded issuer’s $2.7 billion leads a category that is still tiny beside the deposits it wants to move.
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RobCo is worth $1 billion nine months after it was worth $500 million, and its headline robot is not on sale yet
The deal that set the price was largely employees selling shares, and the product behind the pitch launches in March.
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OpenAI wants $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, instead of going public this year
Its price has nearly doubled in six months, and the reason it gives for not listing is that the technology is too risky.
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A startup putting cameras on 650 ships just raised $140 million, and the war in Iran helped
Quartermaster is selling a view of the sea that ships’ own transponders do not reliably give anyone.
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Profound raised $180 million to help brands get quoted by ChatGPT, not just ranked by Google
The round values a two-year-old company at $1.8 billion, seven months after its last one, on the bet that answer engines are the new…
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A startup that films people doing chores is nearing a $500 million valuation
Sequoia is said to be close to leading the round, but three months after its last raise Mecka AI still will not say how…