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Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
If successful, Fika Jobs could help employers assess communication skills and cultural fit early…
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Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes…
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round
Launched in 2019, Baseten is a startup benefiting from what The Next Wave hailed…
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
All of these companies see gaming and robotics training as near-term commercial use cases,…
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names
Odyssey, founded in 2023, now offers a handful of world models for a variety…
Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking
Stanford graduates Jenny Duan and Abhinav Agarwal want to solve two hard problems: create…
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
But Jackson said there's a looming shortage of compatible turbines. Many projects today are…
Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave announced Tuesday a Series E round that values the…
This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the…
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
With the fresh investment, Sarvam said it would fund research into its next-generation AI…
Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation
Still, Mistral has only raised about $4 billion to date, per PitchBook, a fraction…
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer
The IPO market is back, and it's not the same companies leading the charge.…
Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to
In India, consumers receive a lot of calls every day, ranging from spam and…
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
Mehmood's answer to all of that is the founding team's depth. Mehmood and Branagan…
