Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins is in talks to lead the round, which could bring in up to...
Heidi raised $340 million in new funding to expand the capabilities of its AI Care Partner for clinicians and to support its growth, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) press release. The new funding includes a $100 million Series C funding round led...
Former xAI and Google staffer Tina Oberoi is in talks to raise $50 million in seed funding for a startup called Moir that is focused on combating deepfakes by enabling individuals to prove their identity online, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 21), citing an unnamed source....
Paymob, an Egypt-based FinTech company, raised $35 million in pre-Series C funding, the company said in a Monday (Sept. 21) post on LinkedIn. Paymob said in the post that it will invest the new funding in “wider payment coverage across our [Middle East and North...
July 30, 2026
Most consumer apps run on the same logic. An algorithm scans what already exists and serves the user the closest match. Kaon AI CEO and Co-Founder Jay Dang said the model has a ceiling built into it. In a conversation with PYMNTS, Dang said Kaon skips algorithmic recommendation altogether. Rather than surface the best existing […]
February 04, 2026
Adding crypto into the finance stack has traditionally had the flair of a younger business. On Tuesday (Feb. 3), the startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) codified that impression, announcing that...
November 10, 2025
Kamran Ansari has lived through nearly every major turn in FinTech, from the first digital wallets and mobile payments to the rise (and recalibration) of billion-dollar disruptors. With nearly 100...
October 08, 2025
The FinTech initial public offering (IPO) market has roared back to life in 2025 after several quiet years. However, it’s not the same speculative surge that defined the last cycle....
September 24, 2026
One of the researchers behind AlphaGo is seeking tens of millions of dollars from a small initial group of backers for a new startup called Metis Reasoning, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 24). AlphaGo is the Google DeepMind program that beat a world champion at the board game Go in 2016 by learning from millions of […]
September 22, 2026
Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter....
September 22, 2026
Heidi raised $340 million in new funding to expand the capabilities of its AI Care Partner for clinicians and to support its growth, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept....
September 21, 2026
Former xAI and Google staffer Tina Oberoi is in talks to raise $50 million in seed funding for a startup called Moir that is focused on combating deepfakes by enabling...
