For a while, AI felt like a cheat code. Mention AI on an earnings call, announce a bigger data center plan, sign a flashy partnership, and the market filled in the rest. Spend meant ambition. Ambition which meant valuation. That world is gone. Over the past few quarters, markets have quietly flipped from “reward any […]
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AI-powered robotics company Apptronik announced Wednesday that it has raised $520 million in an extension of its $415 million Series A raise in February 2025, bringing the total round to over $935 million. Existing backers B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and Peak6 joined new investors including AT&T Ventures and manufacturing giant John Deere participating in the
Big-name investors. Big checks. Big deal flow. That, in the most basic prose, was the general atmosphere for U.S. startup funding in January. Well-known firms topped the ranks of active investors, including a few that were best known as prolific dealmakers during the last market boom. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz ranked
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Winn.ai, which has built an artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The company provides sales reps with a real-time AI assistant that “guides” them during a prospect call while integrating with enterprise CRM and business intelligence systems. It also aims to
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Businesses are using theatrical stunts not for shock alone but to create viral content and drive sales conversations onlineWhen Lunos, an AI startup in New York City, was gearing up for launch, its founder and chief executive, Duncan Barrigan, and his team wanted to make a splash. So they shelled out $3,500 to do the
Runway, an AI research and technology startup, said Tuesday that it has raised $315 million in a Series E round of funding. General Atlantic led the financing, which included participation from Nvidia, Adobe Ventures, AMD Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Co. and Felicis Ventures 1 , among others. The capital was raised at a $5.3 billion
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About three years ago, a check for $1 trillion would theoretically 1 be enough to buy up all of the 100 most-valuable U.S. private, venture-backed startups. Today, it wouldn’t even be enough to buy one, if it was the newly combined SpaceX and xAI, now valuing itself at $1.25 trillion. It would also fall short
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