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Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI
Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating […]
Webull leaps into Mexico with acquisition of stock trading app Flink
Popular stock trading app Webull has acquired Mexican investment platform Flink, giving it an entry into the Mexico market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Although […]
Pika Labs, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M
The generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet. Case in point, Pika Labs, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos from captions and still […]
TC Startup Battlefield master class with Lightspeed Ventures: Use generative AI to supercharge efficiency
Generative AI is the hot topic in tech right now, but how can you as a startup founder take full advantage of it? Every year, TechCrunch highlights the […]
Lightspeed finalizing leading $80M-plus funding in Pocket FM
Audio series platform Pocket FM has topped $160 million in annual recurring revenue and is inching closer to raising over $80 million in a new funding round, three […]
CPG manufacturing platform Keychain raises $18 million
Manufacturing platform Keychain announced an $18 million Seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners this morning. Keychain seeks to use artificial intelligence to help brands find manufacturing partners. […]
Lightspeed Faction launches $285M early-stage crypto fund
As the crypto market continues to slog through a fundraising winter, Lightspeed Faction, a blockchain-focused venture capital firm, is betting big on the space. The firm has launched […]
Enable, a platform for managing B2B rebates, is now worth $1B
There’s a new unicorn in town, and its name is Enable. A rebate management platform, Enable today announced that it raised $120 million in a Series D funding […]
Confirmed: Palo Alto has acquired Talon Cyber Security, sources say for $625M
Palo Alto Networks has just confirmed one more major piece of security startup M&A out of Israel: it has acquired Talon Cyber Security, a specialist in building enterprise […]