Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation
The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.
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AI | Fundraising | Space | Startups
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?
Startups are trying to “ride that SpaceX IPO wave.”
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AI | Fundraising | Startups
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.
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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.
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Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.
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SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
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Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking
Clair Health will track inflammation and bloating markers, energy levels, and cycle phase classification to give insights into cycle irregularities and perimenopause, as well as hormonal fluctuations, and how to navigate those changes.
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AI | Fundraising | Startups | TC
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.
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General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
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AI | Fundraising | Startups
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush” marches on.
