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9 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2025

AIMPWAMarch 8, 2025

Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch. Three companies raised more than one “mega-round” last year, and seven companies raised rounds at $1 billion or larger. How...

Google removes ‘underrepresented’ language from its grant website

AIMPWAMarch 8, 2025

Just weeks after Google said it would review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Google for Startups Founders Fund web page is peppered with changes. Most notably Google is now using past tense to describe all of its fund programs for underrepresented founders. This is a change that took place after December, according to the...

Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms

AIMPWAMarch 8, 2025

Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in talks with venture capitalists to raise capital at a valuation of nearly $10 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round, if it transpires, would come about three months after Anysphere completed its previous fundraise of $100 million at a...

SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to

AIMPWAMarch 8, 2025

TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already made its entrance. And why not? A quick scan of the massive...

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Discord is discussing an IPO

AIMPWAMarch 7, 2025

Discord – the chat app with over 200 million users – is in early stage talks to IPO, the New York Times reports. Discord’s discussions with investment bankers are still exploratory and plans could change, per the NYT’s sources. Discord understands there is a lot of interest about its future plans, but does not comment...

The California AI bill is back…and it lost its teeth

AIMPWAMarch 7, 2025

California’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024 might be dead, but its author isn’t backing down. State Senator Scott Weiner is back with SB 53, a new AI bill that strips away the most debated parts of last year’s failed legislation while keeping key whistleblower protections and a public cloud computing initiative called CalCompute....

Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation

AIMPWAMarch 7, 2025

As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in that effort is announcing a significant round of funding. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects — including assisting...

Intangible, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M

AIMPWAMarch 7, 2025

Intangible, now backed by $4 million in seed funding, offers an AI-powered creative tool that allows users to create 3D world concepts with text prompts to aid creative professionals across a variety of industries. The company’s mission is to make the creative process accessible to everyone, including professionals such as filmmakers, game designers, event planners,...

Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7

AIMPWAMarch 7, 2025

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which...

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

AIMPWAMarch 7, 2025

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent...

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Bench is charging people for services they already paid for, some customers say

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

After Employer.com acquired bankrupt accounting startup Bench in a fire-sale late last year, CEO Jesse Tinsley pledged on LinkedIn and elsewhere to honor past customer payments. “We’re honoring all prepaid Bench services even though we will not have the revenue from that directly ourselves,” Tinsley said in an interview with founder and investor Julian Weisser....

Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

We’ve all experienced that moment of frustration when the GPS glitches and you miss an exit on the highway. The team at Tern AI, which is building a low-cost GPS alternative, says that’s because the current technology is limited by its reliance on satellite positioning. Tern AI says it has figured out how to locate...

Fintech Klarna files for IPO at a weak point for public debuts

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

The fintech company thinks it can offer investors more than just its buy-now-pay-later products. Source link

Profitable Klarna files for a potentially blockbuster IPO

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

Swedish fintech Klarna took the next step in its highly anticipated U.S. IPO on Friday when it made its F-1 prospectus public. We are sifting through the document now. Klarna hopes to raise at least $1 billion dollars at a $15 billion valuation with this IPO, Bloomberg reported last week. The public documents don’t yet...

Dr. Oz dodges questions on Medicaid cuts during Senate confirmation hearing

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

President Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services faced questions from the Senate Finance Committee on Friday. Source link

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The California AI bill is back…and it lost its teeth

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