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Taiko raises $37M to build web3 infrastructure for a censorship-free internet
Amid the speculation and volatility in the casino-like crypto land, there remains a subset of individuals who espouse blockchain’s potential to decentralize various aspects of human activities for […]
Fintech giant Stripe’s valuation spikes to $65B in employee stock-sale deal
Payments infrastructure giant Stripe said today it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and former employees through a tender offer at a $65 billion […]
Search startups DuckDuckGo and Neeva had a tough time competing with Google, court filing shows
A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits about the […]
China’s Moonshot AI zooms to $2.5B valuation, raising $1B for an LLM focused on long context
The race to build the next big large language model is on, and now a contender out of China has reportedly banked a major round of funding to […]
OpenBorder’s e-commerce software helps merchants access consumers around the world
Richard Hong found that while expanding his e-commerce brand of men’s personal care brands, gaining international customers was easy to do. The challenges came when trying to get […]
How Sierra is rethinking customer experience in the age of AI
We’ve been hearing about the notion of customer experience forever, the idea that we could improve customer interactions with brands digitally. So far, the results have been mixed […]
Why Sequoia is funding open source developers via a new equity-free fellowship
Sequoia Capital plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually, as a continuation of a program it debuted last year. The Silicon Valley venture capital […]
Oasis Security leaves stealth with $40M to lock down the wild west of non-human identity management
When people hear the term “identity management” in an enterprise context, they typically think of apps that help users authenticate who they are on a network in order […]