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Intangible AI, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M 11.03.2025 3:59

Intangible AI, now backed by $4 million in seed funding, offers an AI-powered creative tool that allows users to create 3D world concepts with text prompts to aid creative professionals across a variety of industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CollX raises $10M to grow its card collection marketplace 11.03.2025 4:27

CollX, a company offering an online trading card marketplace, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Austin-based Brand Foundry Ventures and Philadelphia-based 114 Ventures, both of which were previous investors in the company. Other investors such as Next Coast Ventures, FJ Labs, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners also participated . Learn more about your ad choices...

Alpine Eagle secures funding from European backers for counter-drone tech amid rising threats 10.03.2025 5:29

The war in Ukraine has brought drones to the forefront of modern warfare, creating a surge in demand for counter-drone systems. However, legacy solutions to counter drones, such as ground-based defense systems and cyber warfare, often come with a hefty price tag. For German startup Alpine Eagle, these solutions fall short: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Turing raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation 10.03.2025 4:45

As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in that effort is announcing a significant round of funding. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ahead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 million 07.03.2025 4:53

CoreWeave’s initial S-1 document for its upcoming IPO is full of surprises. Backed by Nvidia, CoreWeave runs an AI-specific cloud service from its network of 32 data centers that together have more than 250,000 Nvidia GPUs as of the end of 2024, according to the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste 07.03.2025 10:50

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and software engineers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Moonwatt secures $8.3M to dial up solar’s staying power with sodium-ion storage 06.03.2025 8:36

The drive to decarbonize our economies through electrification and clean energy continues to generate momentum around battery technologies, as storage has a key role to play in enabling the green transition. While renewables are clean sources of energy compared to burning fossil fuels, their power output isn’t always consistent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, lands US Army contract, builds weapons factory 06.03.2025 4:14

Sequoia-backed Mach Industries, the defense tech founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, landed a contract with the U.S. Army and has plans for its first factory, Thornton told TechCrunch. The factory will be 115,000 square feet in Huntington Beach, California, where Mach’s headquarters is located, CEO Thorton said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Flora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionals 05.03.2025 5:02

With just a few words, AI models can be prompted to create a story, an image, or even a short film. But according to Weber Wong, these models are all “made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative.” In other words, they’re not built for actual creative professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security 05.03.2025 5:42

The software supply chain is notoriously porous: a reported 81% of codebases contain high- or critical-risk open source vulnerabilities. A single vulnerability can have a far-reaching impact on the wider software supply chain, as evidenced by the likes of the Log4Shell exploit that saw millions of applications exposed to potential remote code execution hacks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Just Move In raises $8M Series A for its home setup service 04.03.2025 3:44

Fintech has fragmented into increasingly specialized, cucumber-sliced micro-services, ranging from embedded buy-now-pay-later loans to specialized neo banks to yet more payment processing systems. What opportunities remain for innovators in such a fragmented landscape? One U.K. startup, Just Move In, zoomed out and realised that the home had been overlooked by everyone in the industry. Learn more...

Workhelix taps years of research to help enterprises figure out where to apply AI 04.03.2025 5:37

AI has the power to transform how people work, but getting tangible value out of AI isn’t as easy as throwing any AI application at any workflow. It can be hard for enterprises to figure out which AI applications help their business and which are just hype. Workhelix wants to solve that problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model 03.03.2025 3:56

Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery 03.03.2025 3:54

Being somewhat later than Europe in adopting the idea of parcel delivery, much of Asia built its delivery infrastructure around e-commerce, effectively ‘Uberising’ how deliveries worked down to the last mile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bridgetown Research raises $19M to speed up due diligence with AI 28.02.2025 4:28

Birdgetown Research has raised $19 million in a round co-led by Accel and Lightspeed to deploy AI agents for business decisions and M&A deals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training 28.02.2025 5:02

Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen. The problem could even get substantially worse as generative AI increases the scale and personalization of social engineering campaigns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business 27.02.2025 5:12

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Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI 27.02.2025 6:05

“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI in specific contexts… and investors are rushing to fund the most interesting of these. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform 26.02.2025 5:03

For decades, patents have been a bone of contention in the technology world, seen by some as a way to protect intellectual property, but by critics as a blunt weapon against innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say 26.02.2025 3:05

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Arize AI hopes it has first-mover advantage in AI observability 25.02.2025 4:48

The AI observability platform has raised $70 million in Series C funding. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas 25.02.2025 4:15

Solar and wind together now represent nearly a quarter of electricity demand and nearly 10% of all energy consumption in the U.S. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spore.Bio raises $23M to apply machine learning to microbiology testing 24.02.2025 4:19

Recalls in the food and beverage industry due to contamination incidents can have catastrophic effects. Not only do companies have to pay fines and damages, but the impacts on the brand’s reputation can be long-lasting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back 24.02.2025 3:52

For decades, couples going through in vitro fertilization have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on the procedures with no guarantee of success. It’s not only an emotionally draining process, but a financially exhausting one as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hyperlume wants to make chip-to-chip communication faster and more efficient 21.02.2025 4:39

Data centers consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023 and are estimated to use up to 12% by 2028. The majority of the energy data centers suck up is used to help transfer data from chip to chip. A company called Hyperlume is looking to make that process more energy-efficient while also speeding it up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices