Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation | TechCrunch
Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion. …
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AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation 4 months after launch | TechCrunch
Town, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup developing AI assistants, nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series…
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia | TechCrunch
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots,…
Another personal AI assistant has launched — Meet Tab, which emerged from stealth with a $300M valuation | TechCrunch
A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth at…
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, Anthropic announced an expansion of its Claude for Startups program, offering subsidized access to its AI models and…
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation | TechCrunch
Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 million Series B round at…
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation | TechCrunch
These days, it’s rare to hear of a startup founded in 2019, or one not focused on AI agents, raising…
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters | TechCrunch
Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and in a curious twist, the new executive hails from an AI…
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI…
Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York | TechCrunch
Neko Health’s promised U.S. expansion arrives on September 24, when the health-scanning startup opens its first American office. It will…
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg. OpenRouter helps customers select different…
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta | TechCrunch
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion…
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI | TechCrunch
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she would step down from her role, citing health issues.…
Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup | TechCrunch
In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by…
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise | TechCrunch
There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old, Jersey City, New Jersey, startup that helps…
AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation | TechCrunch
AI law startup Norm on Tuesday said it has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round led by…
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero | TechCrunch
GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a senior thesis project, has been…
After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M | TechCrunch
Groq is looking to raise $650 million in new funding from existing investors, sources tell Axios, as it leans into…