FinTech PointsKash has secured a strategic capital commitment of up to $100 million from Hawk Capital Advisors to support the national rollout of its FinTech, payments, loyalty rewards and digital commerce offerings, PointsKash said in a Wednesday (Aug. 12) press release. PointsKash is developing physical and digital platforms to create a flexible...
Voice artificial intelligence (AI) startup Wispr Flow is now a $2 billion company after raising $280 million. The company’s Series B round, announced Monday (Aug. 17), comes as Wispr Flow is debuting its latest speech model to address changing needs around voice-to-text technology. “For most...
Artificial intelligence (AI) inference company Groq has raised $350 million in new funding. The Series A round will help Groq support customers “seeking usage of medium and larger sized clusters of Nvidia accelerated computing for training and inference,” the company said in a news release...
AI video generation platform Higgsfield is now a $5.4 billion company. The company achieved that valuation as it raised $400 million in a Series B funding round, Higgsfield announced Monday (Aug. 17). The startup says it will use the new funding to expand its time and scale its...
Data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks raised $5 billion in a strategic funding round at a $190 billion valuation, the firm said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) press release. The new valuation is up from the $134 billion at which it was valued in a February funding round and the...
FinTech startup Navi is preparing to launch its initial public offering in India and will seek a valuation of as much as $2 billion, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. Navi aims to raise as much as 30 billion rupees (about $315 million)...
Real estate market intelligence platform ApartmentIQ has raised $25 million in new funding. The company announced the funding from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) Tuesday (Aug. 11) along with the news that its platform has surpassed 8 million units. “The next generation of multifamily intelligence platforms...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agent platform HappyRobot was valued at $1.2 billion post-money in a Series C funding round in which it raised $150 million, the company said in an Aug. 4 press release. The round brought HappyRobot’s total funding to $200 million, according to the release. It was reported in...
Fazeshift has secured an investment from Amex Ventures to help expand its artificial intelligence agent platform beyond accounts receivable and into additional finance operations, Fazeshift said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) press release. The investment from Amex Ventures, which is the corporate venture capital arm...