OpenAI is reportedly rushing to lockdown investors before chief competitor Anthropic goes public next month. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 19) by Reuters, which describes the effort as “unusually fast fundraising” that could bring OpenAI’s valuation to more than $1.4 trillion. Two sources...
Ramp has reportedly reached a $60 billion valuation with its newest funding round. That’s according to a report Friday (Oct. 9) by Bloomberg News, citing sources familiar with the matter. They said the spend management platform brought in $1.85 billion in the round, and that...
Kastle, an agentic AI platform for consumer lenders, has raised $24 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced last week and led by Insight Partners, will help Kastle expand its engineering, product and go-to-market teams, deepen its platforms’ capabilities and accelerate deployments...
Helcim, a payments company focused on Canadian small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $38 million in new funding. The Calgary startup’s Series C round will help Helcim invest in its platform at a time when many of Canada’s biggest banks are selling or outsourcing their merchant...
September 14, 2023
It’s a challenging economy for consumers — and startups don’t have it any better. Nine out of every 10 startups that raise money end up failing over a 10-year period. Observers believe that venture-backed startups fail at higher numbers than the industry usually cites. Although far more businesses fail than eventually succeed, the process of shutting down a company can often […]
July 26, 2018
A consumer can own multiple credit cards and live in a highly technological society and still want to pay via a method that can come pretty close to resembling cash....
July 11, 2018
In the push to make payments faster, platform and solutions providers are ratcheting up their payments processing infrastructure with new technologies and innovations. But in the rush to get faster,...
October 28, 2026
Autonomous factory company Foundry Robotics is planning an expansion of its manufacturing footprint after raising $100 million. The company said its Series A round, announced Wednesday (Oct. 28), will allow it to build out its facility in Emeryville, California, and to accelerate deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models into real-world manufacturing, and expand its robotics […]
October 20, 2026
OpenAI is reportedly rushing to lockdown investors before chief competitor Anthropic goes public next month. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 19) by Reuters, which describes the effort as...
October 11, 2026
Ramp has reportedly reached a $60 billion valuation with its newest funding round. That’s according to a report Friday (Oct. 9) by Bloomberg News, citing sources familiar with the matter....
September 21, 2026
Kastle, an agentic AI platform for consumer lenders, has raised $24 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced last week and led by Insight Partners, will help...