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Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M

May 2, 2025 • 3 mins
Supio, a startup that uses AI to automate data collection and analysis for legal teams, has raised $60 million in a funding round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely

May 2, 2025 • 2 mins
AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can be used to “cheat on everything” from job interviews to exams. But some startups are claiming they can catch Cluely’s users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups

May 1, 2025 • 2 mins
Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere

May 1, 2025 • 5 mins
When it comes to creating images of the earth from above, satellites, drones and planes are the air and spacecraft that tend to come to mind. But a startup called Near Space Labs is taking a very different approach to high-resolution photos from up high. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps

April 30, 2025 • 4 mins
The startup's enzymes modify a cow’s microbiome using enzymes, slashing methane while boosting the nutrients available to the cow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off

April 30, 2025 • 7 mins
In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries

April 29, 2025 • 3 mins
RepAir recently raised a $15 million extension to its Series A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla

April 29, 2025 • 7 mins
A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn’t even painted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Datadog acquires AI-powered observability startup Metaplane

April 28, 2025 • 4 mins
Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Metaplane, an AI-powered data observability startup, for an undisclosed amount. In a press release, Datadog said that the deal “accelerates” its expansion into data observability, building on the launch of related products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup

April 28, 2025 • 4 mins
As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about to unlock capabilities…in the application layer in the software stack.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries

April 25, 2025 • 5 mins
Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is, to redevelop critical industry infrastructure, and to bring back businesses, which had moved or outsourced some or all of their industrial operations to cheaper countries further away. But that is easier said than done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93M

April 25, 2025 • 3 mins
AI-generated code is no doubt changing how software is built, but it’s also introducing new security challenges. More than 50% of organizations encounter security issues with AI-produced code sometimes or frequently, according to a late 2023 survey by developer security platform Synk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets

April 24, 2025 • 6 mins
A new venture firm aims to prove that the most successful startup ideas don’t have to be born or scaled in Silicon Valley. Fluent Ventures, a global early-stage fund, is backing founders replicating proven business models from Western markets in fintech, digital health, and commerce across emerging markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise

April 24, 2025 • 3 mins
In 2020, when open source database Supabase was founded, its New Zealand-based CEO, Paul Copplestone, couldn’t have imagined it would be sitting in the sweet spot for 2025’s biggest trend: vibe coding.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI

April 23, 2025 • 6 mins
Chatbots and other kinds of AI agents — and the companies that build them — may feel like a dime a dozen these days. But the truth is that, for both businesses and consumers, some may be infinitely more useful (and perhaps less dystopian) than others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear

April 23, 2025 • 5 mins
A startup called Superpower is publicly launching what it calls the world’s first super-app that is designed to help people better understand and take care of their health. For $499, the startup offers biannual lab testing that analyzes over 100 blood biomarkers across 21 categories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere

April 22, 2025 • 6 mins
Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire. Such is the case with Mechanize, a startup whose founder – and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more

April 22, 2025 • 5 mins
OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI’s older models. Hallucinations have proven to be one of the biggest and most difficult problems to solve in AI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Deck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AI

April 21, 2025 • 7 mins
Deck, a startup that claims to be building “the Plaid for the rest of the internet,” has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round — about nine months after closing its seed financing, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. The new raise, led by Infinity Ventures, brings Montreal-based Deck’s total raised Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands

April 21, 2025 • 3 mins
Capsule is upgrading its AI-powered video editing assistant for marketing, sales, and media teams following the close of a $12 million round of Series A funding, the company announced on Wednesday. The upgraded editor will include new features like AI suggestions and support for real-time collaboration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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