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Runway Raises $315 Mn from NVIDIA, AMD Ventures at $5.3 Bn Valuation
Runway said the new funding will be used to advance model development, address technical limitations and expand hiring across engineering and go-to-market teams.
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JumpCloud Launches Venture Arm to Back Next-Gen IT and Security Startups
JumpCloud Ventures has already made its first investment in Tofu, a startup focused on preventing identity fraud in hiring.
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Databricks Secures Over $7 Bn in New Funding as Revenue Growth Accelerates
Databricks said the fresh capital will help accelerate development of Lakebase, its serverless Postgres database,
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SambaNova in Talks to Raise Over $350 Mn as AI Chip Demand Surges
The valuation for the round has not been disclosed.
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Cerebras Raises Another $1 Bn, Hits $23 Bn Valuation as AI Chip Race Intensifies
The raise follows reports that Cerebras signed a more than $10 billion agreement to supply OpenAI with AI hardware.
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ElevenLabs Lands $500 Mn at $11 Bn Valuation as Voice AI Boom Accelerates
The London-based company plans to build new models and expand across global markets.
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Positron AI Becomes Unicorn With $230 Mn Raise to Power the Next Wave of Energy-Efficient AI Inference
The company said the funding will be used to expand its engineering and operations teams, scale manufacturing, and bring its inference-focused hardware and software stack to a broader set of enterprise customers.
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Waymo Nears $16 Bn Funding Round, Valuation Seen at $110 Bn
More than three-quarters of the new capital is expected to come from Alphabet, Waymo’s parent company.
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Spector.ai Raises $6.7 Mn to Scale Industrial AI Platform and Expand Global Enterprise Deployments
The funds will be used to accelerate product innovation, and expand enterprise deployments globally.
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Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Bn in Upsized Series E to Scale Compute and AI Products
The company said the capital will be used primarily to expand compute capacity and support research aligned with its mission of “understanding the universe.”
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Bengaluru Startup Arrowhead Raises $3 Mn Seed Round to Scale its Voice AI Models
The startup focuses on replacing large human sales teams with AI-driven voice agents capable of conducting long and complex conversations.
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Coimbatore AI Startup Aivar Raises $4.6 Mn to Expand in India, US and Middle East and Scale AI Accelerators
Founded in 2024, Aivar positions itself as a technology services partner focused on enterprise AI adoption.