New York Times Escalates Battle Against Perplexity With New Lawsuit
Alexandra Bruell / wsj - The New York Times sues startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, expanding its legal fight against generative-AI companies that it says steal and then profit from its content.
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yuv raises $12M to scale sustainable hair colour tech in the UK and US
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - London-based yuv, a beauty technologycompany developing the world’s first smart hair colour lab system for salonsand freelancers, has closed a $12 million Series A funding round. The round wasled by N...
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Spark Cleantech Raises €30M To Power Heavy Industry With Clean Energy
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based deeptech company Spark Cleantech has closed a €30 million Series A round, including €17 million in equity. The round was led by 360 Capital and Taranis, with participation from the Île-de-France Reindustrialisation Fund, Asterion Ventures, and…
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Curvestone AI Raises $4M in Seed Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Curvestone AI, a London, UK-based provider of a workflow automation platform for the financial services, legal and insurance sectors, raised $4m in seed funding. The round was led by MTech Capital, with participation from Boost Capital Partners, D2 Fund, …
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Track Titan Secures $5M For AI-Powered Motorsport Tracking Platform
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Track Titan, an AI-powered motorsport tracking platform, has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, the fund led by Alpine F1 co-owner Roger Ehrenberg. Other investors include Colton Parayko, Trevoh Chalobah, Sequel, …
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Brevo becomes Europe’s latest unicorn after landing €500M to power AI growth
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Businesses’ marketing tools don’t talk to each other. Email sits in one app, CRM in another, SMS and…
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Anthropic reportedly planning one of the biggest IPOs ever as race with OpenAI heats up
Taylor Hatmaker / fastcompany - One of the world’s biggest AI startups might be eyeing a massive IPO.According to a new report in the Financial Times, Anthropic has tapped the Palo Alto-based law firm Wilson Sonsini to help the company go public as soon as early next year. The law firm …
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Donna raises $4.8M to cut admin work and unlock real insights from field sales teams
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Ghent-based Donna, a proactive AI assistantfor field sales teams, has raised $4.8 million in new funding to accelerateinternational expansion and cement its position in field sales enablement. Theroun...
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Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT
cnbc - Anthropic, the AI startup behind the popular Claude chatbot, is reportedly in talks to launch one of the largest initial public offerings ever as 2025.
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Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Mistral unveils its Mistral 3 lineup, including a frontier model and efficient small models designed for offline, customizable enterprise use—aiming to prove small, fine-tuned AI can beat closed-source giants.
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Expedition Growth Capital $375 Million Fund III
Clinton / ventureburn - Expedition Closes Its Third Fund at the Hard Cap Expedition Growth Capital has completed the raise of Fund III. The fund reached $375 million. It closed at the hard cap.The post Expedition Growth Capital $375 Million Fund III appeared first on Ventureburn.
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Audio language model startup Gradium raises $70M to create more realistic voice AI systems
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Audio artificial intelligence startup Gradium is launching today after closing on an impressive $70 million seed funding round, just three months after it was founded. The startup is backed by investors that include FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, which le…
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Retail operations automation startup Duvo raises $15M
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Automation startup Duvo says it’s ready to provide retail and e-commerce teams with an artificial intelligence agent workforce that handles their day-to-day operations after raising $15 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by Index Ventures and …
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Bitstack Raises $15M To Build Europe’s Bitcoin Savings App
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based Bitcoin savings app Bitstack has secured $15 million in a Series A funding round led by 13books Capital, with continued support from existing investors including AG2R LA MONDIALE, Plug and Play Ventures, Serena, Stillmark and Y Combinator. Acc…
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Saporo Raises €7 Million To Tackle Identity-Based Cyber Attacks
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Lausanne cybersecurity startup Saporo, which helps companies see their IT environments the way attackers do, has raised €7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by TIN Capital, with G+D Ventures, CDP Venture Capital (through its Corporate Partner…
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Ahead Of 2026 Launch, Marble Imaging Secures €5.3M for High-Resolution Earth Observation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Bremen-based Marble Imaging has announced the closing of its oversubscribed €5.3 million Seed round, ahead of its first satellite launch scheduled for Q4 2026. The funding will support scaling operations and accelerating product and technology development…
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Payments Firm Sokin Valued at $300 Million After New Funding
PYMNTS / pymnts - Business payments company Sokin has raised $50 million in a new funding round. The Series B round brings Sokin’s valuation to $300 million, and will help accelerate the company’s expansion, bolster its financial infrastructure and enhance its product capa…
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Adcities Raises Over €3M in Seed Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Adcities, a Madrid, Spain-based adtech startup, raised over €3m in seed funding. The round was led by Adara Ventures with participation from PlusPartners and Bynd, and angels including Albert Nieto (co-founder of Seedtag) and Scott Painter (global mobilit…
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Europe’s hottest AI image startup Black Forest Labs bags $300M from a16z, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The AI image generation market grapples with models that falter on complex prompts, produce inconsistent anatomy or text,…
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Gravis Robotics raises $23M to scale autonomous earthmoving tech
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Swiss-based earthmoving autonomy platform Gravis Roboticshas secured $23 million in fresh funding, co-led by IQ Capital and Zacua Ventures, with participation from Pear VC, Imad (CVC of Nesma & Pa...
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