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Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’

Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’

Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India’s next AI breakouts

Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths; plus Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites

X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D

This startup wants to build a fusion reactor — on a boat; plus, Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing

Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years; also, Phictly’s new app brings people together over their favorite books and TV shows

The European startup market is ready for the limelight

Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round ; plus, this startup can track objects within 3 cm

After SEC investigation, Curastory founder resigns, hires replacement

Cavela lands $6.6M to help brands beat pre-tariff manufacturing costs; plus Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation

Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easier

Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into bookable itineraries

Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt as consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT

Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework; plus Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan

Is Jeff Bezos returning to the trenches with a new AI startup? Also, Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar

How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit; plus Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you

How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start

6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind

Knicks player Miles McBride launches Mmotion, a location-sharing friendship app, also, Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off

How startups can lure good talent fairly without big tech bank accounts

How one founder plans to save cities from flooding with terraforming robots; plus Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund

Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of stealth; plus, Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’

This startup’s metal stacks could help solve AI’s massive heat problem

Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion

Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners and which are still wide open; also, Locket’s social app is picking up steam with Gen Alpha

a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff

Pine Labs aims to take Indian fintech global even as it cuts valuation for IPO

Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue; plus, Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta

YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot; also, Cluely’s Roy Lee on the ragebait strategy for startup marketing

Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion; plus, IntrCity SmartBus lands $30M to deepen its grip on India’s intercity travel market

The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in ChatGPT and other AI apps, plus India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months

Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping, plus, Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistant

AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs; also, Mem0 raises $24M to build the memory layer for AI apps

Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible

Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest

Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen

Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood

Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race

Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs

a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager

Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world