Distracted driving is a leading cause of car accidents and increased car insurance premiums, which are expected to increase in 2025. For commercial fleets, navigating that is an expensive challenge. But for California-based startup Netradyne, it’s a tailwind. Netradyne offers fleet owners, including big names like Amazonwith AI-enabled dash cameras that collect vehicle data and […]
As the world continues to work out how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it appears that not all AI-created videos are generating controversy. synthesisA London startup that creates products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, says it is a big hit with businesses, with around 60,000 of them (1 million users) using
Synthesia Secures $180M at $2.1B Valuation for Its B2B AI Video Platform– BC Read More »
Updated December 25 at 12:21 pm Pacific: Added details of xAI’s valuation and Kingdom Holdings’ contribution. xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has increase $6 billion in a Series C financing round. The company announced this week in which Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in new cash to fuel AI ambitions– BC Read More »
A startup from Türkiye that has created a successful casual mobile game in which you have to find cats. Where’s Wally?-drawings of increasingly complex style has now found something else: 18 million dollars in financing. agave gamesthe creator of Find the Cat, will use Series A to build his team and work on future titles,
Agave, the startup behind Find the Cat, raises $18 million– BC Read More »
With the rise of misinformation, especially given the explosion of AI, companies are just as vulnerable to its effects as individuals. Refute is a London-based startup that detects and responds to misinformation on behalf of these commercial entities. It has now raised a £2.3 million ($2.9 million) pre-seed round led by UK investors. play fair
As AI-powered misinformation explodes, here comes the startup counterattack– BC Read More »
Last time we covered the electric vehicle charging pad Ampeco in 2023, when it raised a $13 million Series A round. Today it has raised $26 million in Series B financing led by Revaia, a growth equity investment fund. That brings its total funding to $42 million. Many EV charging systems are all-in-one solutions, which
Investor Wesley Chan has shown a knack for making very early investments in multi-billion dollar unicorns such as Plaid, Gusto, Flexport and, most recently, Canva. Chan comes from an unconventional background: he grew up in an immigrant family and received only average grades in high school. But he got a job washing test tubes in
Wesley Chan talks about what he’s looking for while shopping for potential unicorns– BC Read More »
As petrochemical plants and other emitters look to reduce emissions, they are finding that absorbing and storing all the carbon dioxide they produce isn’t cheap. First they have to capture it, a process that consumes a lot of energy and requires specialized equipment. Then they have to transport and store it, which can be complicated
Turnover Labs helps chemical plants reuse waste CO2– BC Read More »
Traditional retailers have a pressing problem. Fast-moving companies like Shein and Temu are taking advantage of purpose-built end-to-end supply chains. Meanwhile, traditional retailers are still stuck on legacy platforms, juggling large amounts of data sets and struggling to respond to an extremely fast-paced market. A London-based startup believes it has the solution to this problem.
Hedosophia Leads $7M Seed Round for Retail Supply Chain AI Startup Ameba– Brit Commerce Read More »
Physics Wallahan Indian edtech startup, has raised $210 million in fresh funding amid a tough funding environment for edtech companies in the country following the collapse of Byju’s, once the largest player in the sector. Physics Wallah said on Friday that the Series B round was led by hedge fund Hornbill Capital, a joint venture
