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Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed to Let AI Swarms Hunt for Cooler Chips
The YC-backed startup is deploying AI agents to screen thousands of potential semiconductor materials daily, aiming to p...
Feia and Momsanity Expand Access to Women's Health from Bulgaria to Europe
Feia, a Bulgarian pregnancy tracking app, has grown into a multi-module women's health platform with international reach...
A Slovak Founder, a California Dinner, and a $1.2M Bet on Invisible Health Data
Sebastian Kot, 20, secured $1.2 million from Long Journey Ventures after European funds rejected him repeatedly. His sta...
Ditto’s AI matchmaker ditches the swipe – and Gen Z is texting in for Wednesday dates
College-focused dating app Ditto uses conversational AI to match users on personality, not photos, then books a real dat...
Benioff-Backed June Raises $20M to Automate Enterprise AI Deployment
Former Salesforce executives launch June with $20M from Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to automate the messy work of enter...
Nvidia's $5B Safe Superintelligence Bet Leads Week's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds
A reported $5 billion Nvidia investment in Safe Superintelligence headlined a week that saw roughly $8.2 billion raised ...
Zepto Delays IPO After Public Investors Value It at Half Its $7 Billion Peak
Zepto is pausing its listing plans and raising private funds at about $4.5 billion after public investors valued the qui...
Global Venture Funding Fell 35% in 2022; Late-Stage Deals Plunged 64% in Q4
Venture investment worldwide slid to $445 billion last year, a 35% drop from 2021’s record, with the steepest declines i...
North American Startup Funding Jumps 43% in First Half of the Year, Defying Market Jitters
Venture investors deployed $145 billion into US and Canadian startups in H1 2026, the strongest first half in three year...
Billion-Dollar VC Rounds Now Gobble Up 73% of All US Startup Funding
Soaring AI capital needs are supercharging a trend: mega-rounds of $1 billion or more accounted for almost three-quarter...
Infinity Lands $15M to Chip Away at Nvidia’s CUDA Moat with Universal AI Inference Software
The startup, backed by Touring Capital and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic, is building a self-optimizing inferenc...