4 h. ago Anthropic, which opened a Seattle office last year, now valued at $61.5B after raising $3.5B

Anthropic, which opened a Seattle office last year, now valued at $61.5B after raising $3.5B  GeekWire

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5 d. ago Commercetools, a pioneer in ‘headless commerce’, lays off dozens of staff

Commercetools — a “headless commerce” platform that provides APIs to companies building online storefronts — saw a major boost in its business just a few years ago, raising money at whopping $1.9 billion valuation as the world went shopping online in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and businesses rushed to improve their e-commerce operations. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago Elon Musk's X Seeks $44 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round

Elon Musk's X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, is in talks with investors to raise funds at a valuation of $44 billion — matching Elon Musk's 2022 acquisition price. The post Elon Musk’s X Seeks $44 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Augury raises $75M at $1B+ valuation for its AI that detects malfunctions in factory machines

As companies like Nvidia and SoftBank focus on industrial robotics as key areas for future R&D, a startup has raised funding today for another facet of how AI is being used on the factory room floor. Augury, which develops AI-based hardware to identify when machines need repairs and what is wrong with them, has raised […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B

Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — a higher valuation than reported just weeks ago. Bloomberg reports that VC firm Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and pledging to invest half a billion […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI

Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform that lets sales, marketing, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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