Dutch startup Whispp raised 750,000 euros (about $820,000) in a seed round to launch its artificial intelligence-powered real-time assistive voice technology and calling app. Designed for people whose speech has been diminished by stuttering, throat cancer, vocal cord paralysis or Lou Gehrig’s disease, Whispp’s solutions...
Maalexi has raised $3 million in a Pre-Series A funding round to continue building its cross-border trade platform for small agribusinesses. The platform connects buyers with sellers worldwide to reinforce the food supply chain and promote food security in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and...
Venture firm Thrive Capital is reportedly preparing to raise at least $3 billion amid a downturn in tech funding. The planned fundraising, the subject of a Sunday (Jan. 7) report by the Financial Times (FT), would make Thrive — a major investor in OpenAI — one of few large growth...
Specialized graphics processing unit cloud provider CoreWeave will invest in social artificial intelligence platform Chai. This will bring the total capital invested in Chai to over $10 million and will place the company at a $450 million valuation, Chai said in a Thursday (Jan. 4)...
Early-stage venture capital (VC) firm Exponent Founders Capital has launched and disclosed that it has raised $125 million to date. That total includes a new $75 million Fund II vehicle that will be used to invest in inception and early-stage companies in the fields of...
Bumper, a FinTech that lets customers fund car repairs in installments, raised $48 million. The London-based company announced the Series B round in a Thursday (Jan. 4) press release, saying it would use the funding to expand throughout Europe, targeting car dealers and repair shops...
Robin AI raised $26 million amid the legal profession’s continued embrace of artificial intelligence. The London and New York-based company announced the Series B funding on its LinkedIn page Wednesday (Jan. 3), noting the round was led by Temasek with participation from Quantum Light, Plural...
Israel’s conflict with Hamas hasn’t scared off investors. Israeli tech companies raised $1.5 billion during the fourth quarter, Reuters reported Thursday (Dec. 28), citing data from the Israel Venture Capital Research Center and LeumiTech. While that number is down 15% from the third quarter, 75...
Electric vehicle (EV) charging companies reportedly don’t have much juice with investors these days. As The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Dec. 26), companies like ChargePoint, Blink Charging and EVgo have all seen their share prices drop this year, with Blink and EVgo both projecting annual losses. According to the report, charging...