Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows. While AI giant OpenAI is by far the busiest of these buyers, well-funded startups in legal tech, customer service and software development have also made multiple acquisitions…
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Finches, a Bavaria-based startup developing AI for agricultural procurement, has raised €2 million in a pre-Seed funding round to accelerate product development and expand its sales operations. The round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with Vanagon Ventures joining as co-lead. Bayern Kapital joined as a new investor, while existing backer UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators […]
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Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today, but the exits needed to return that money to investors have not kept pace. Much of the $515.8 billion invested in […]
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Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Y Combinator and several others. Nous is now valued at $1.5 billion. The company […]
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Nvidia-backed open source startup makes splashy entrance. AI hits U.S. K-8 education.
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Rivercell, a Paris-based BioTech and AI company building proprietary cell-response data infrastructure and a world model that predicts how human cells respond to treatment, has launched today out of stealth with a €22 million ($25 million) Seed round. The round was led by HV, with participation from HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture. The investment […]
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As AI IPOs bring greater scrutiny, argues guest author Maor Farid, founder and CEO of Leo AI, investors will increasingly prioritize customer spending growth, sustainable margins and deployment efficiency over rapid revenue growth alone.
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In total, investors poured $92 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian startups in the third quarter, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 35% decline from the prior quarter but up 50% from year-ago levels.
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The short answer is – it depends on what your local language is. Picture a European startup that has spent years building something genuinely innovative. A FinTech platform that helps mid-sized companies manage cross-border payments with happy customers at home and across a couple of neighbouring markets. The ambition, now, is the UK or the […]
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The U.S. startup holds an advantage in the open-weight market due to its funding and technology relationship with Nvidia.
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Open-weight models keep multiplying, and the AI coding harness around them is becoming just as important to get right. Developers and enterprises are trading off cost against capability. The harness helps translate a model’s capabilities into useful work. Cline Bot Inc. is betting that keeping that layer open will let more people build with AI. […]
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Exactly how many support and related issues can AI Agents really, truly resolve today? It’s a good test of just exactly where the latest models and agents are. Now $100M ARR AI CX for ecommerce leader Gorgias (where SaaStr Fund led the seed) has now published a public benchmark that tests 13 vendors on 212...
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Shlomi C. Ron, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Decision Advantage AI, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We …
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Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far this year, it still exceeded every other quarter since Q2 2022. We take a look at where the funding went.
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Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…
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