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Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered browser to take on Google and Microsoft

Nickie Louise Posted On July 9, 2025

The AI search startup on Wednesday unveiled Comet, a new browser that leans into voice, text, and app integrations to reimagine how people interact with the web. The launch comes just two weeks following reports that Apple was in talks to […]

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Linda Yaccarino steps down as X CEO amid Grok AI controversy

Nickie Louise Posted On July 9, 2025

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X, Elon Musk’s social media company, after two years in the role. Musk brought her on in May 2023, shortly after acquiring Twitter (now X). Her departure comes one day after Grok—the […]

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Insomnia Labs launches CreatorFi with $12M to offer stablecoin credit to digital creators

Nickie Louise Posted On July 9, 2025

Insomnia Labs is betting big on the creator economy—and it’s putting blockchain to work to fix one of the industry’s most broken problems: access to credit. The company just launched CreatorFi, a new platform that lets digital creators borrow against […]

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MaintainX raises $150M at $2.5B valuation to bring AI-powered equipment maintenance to the industrial frontline

Nickie Louise Posted On July 9, 2025

MaintainX, an equipment maintenance startup helping industrial teams keep their equipment running with fewer breakdowns and more brains, just raised $150 million in fresh funding. The new round brings the company’s valuation to $2.5 billion and signals strong investor confidence […]

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Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – July 8, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On July 8, 2025

It’s Tuesday, July 8, 2025, and we’re back with your daily tech funding snapshot—a quick pulse on where the money’s flowing and which startups are gaining serious traction across sectors and borders. Today’s lineup is anything but narrow. From AI-powered […]

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Centivax raises $45M in funding to launch first-ever universal flu vaccine to human trials

Nickie Louise Posted On July 8, 2025

Centivax is betting big on ending the flu as we know it. The biotech startup just closed a $45 million Series A round to bring what it says could be the first universal flu vaccine into human trials. The raise […]

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SiPearl raises €130M to build AI chips for EU’s Jupiter Supercomputer

Nickie Louise Posted On July 8, 2025

Europe’s push for tech independence just got a serious boost. SiPearl, a French startup building high-performance chips for supercomputing and AI, has raised €130 million ($152 million) from a group of investors including Taiwan’s Cathay Venture, according to a report […]

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ReserveOne to go public in $1B SPAC deal backed by Kraken, Tether’s co-founder, and former U.S. Commerce Secretary

Nickie Louise Posted On July 8, 2025

The SPAC IPO space is heating up as a new crypto holding company heads to Wall Street with a heavyweight team—and a billion-dollar plan to match. ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency asset manager backed by industry heavyweights and political insiders, announced Tuesday […]

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Trump’s Truth Social files for crypto ETF with SEC in surprise move

Nickie Louise Posted On July 8, 2025

In a move that few saw coming, Truth Social, the social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group, is officially stepping into the crypto arena. The company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – July 7, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On July 7, 2025

It’s Monday, July 7, 2025. I hope your weekend was both restful and recharging. We’re back with your daily snapshot of startup and tech funding activity — and today’s deals reflect a global push to rewire key industries with next-gen […]

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Jack Dorsey launches Bitchat: A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works without internet

Nickie Louise Posted On July 7, 2025

Jack Dorsey is back. This time, he didn’t drop a manifesto — he spent his weekend building something most tech founders wouldn’t touch without a dozen VC calls first: a peer-to-peer messaging app called Bitchat that runs entirely over Bluetooth […]

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Synfini raises $8.9M in funding to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery

Nickie Louise Posted On July 7, 2025

Drug discovery is slow, expensive, and often gets bogged down in manual chemistry work that hasn’t changed much in decades. Synfini thinks there’s a better way—and now it has an extra $8.9 million to prove it. The California-based startup transforming […]

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CoreWeave to acquire crypto miner Core Scientific for $9 billion in all-stock deal to fuel AI growth

Nickie Louise Posted On July 7, 2025

CoreWeave is acquiring Core Scientific in an all-stock deal valued at $9 billion, the Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure company announced on Monday. The move will give CoreWeave access to massive energy resources built during the crypto boom—resources now in high demand […]

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From Cleaning Toilets to Becoming the CEO of a Trillion-Dollar Company: An Immigrant’s Tech Triumph

Nickie Louise Posted On July 4, 2025

Happy Independence Day. On July 4, 2025, America marks 249 years since breaking away from British rule—a fight for freedom that reshaped history. But the real legacy of that freedom is what it makes possible today. Like a kid scrubbing […]

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Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – July 3, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On July 3, 2025

It’s Thursday, July 3, 2025, and we’re back with your daily tech funding snapshot of where venture capital is flowing and which startups are shaping the next wave of global tech innovation. Happy 4th of July to our U.S. readers! […]

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Blackbird’s elevate.io raises £2M to disrupt legacy video editing software

Nickie Louise Posted On July 3, 2025

Blackbird just topped up its war chest with a fresh £2 million raise to scale elevate.io — its browser-based collaborative video editor that’s aiming to shake up how creators work. The raise, which was fully subscribed, will help elevate.io move […]

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Thoma Bravo to acquire Olo in $2B all-cash deal, taking restaurant software firm private

Nickie Louise Posted On July 3, 2025

Thoma Bravo is taking restaurant software provider Olo off the public market. The private equity firm has agreed to acquire Olo in an all-cash deal valued at roughly $2 billion, the company said Thursday. Olo’s shares jumped over 13% in early […]

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AI voice startup ElevenLabs eyes IPO and global expansion after hitting $3.3B valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On July 3, 2025

ElevenLabs is thinking big. Just six months after tripling its valuation to $3.3 billion following a $180 million raise, the London-based AI voice startup revealed Thursday that it’s planning an initial public offering (IPO) within five years as it pushes […]

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Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – July 2, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On July 2, 2025

It’s Wednesday, July 2, 2025, and we’re back with your daily snapshot of where capital is flowing and which startups are commanding attention in the global tech landscape. Today’s edition arrives a little late, but it’s packed with heavyweight deals […]

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Robinhood’s tokenized shares not backed by OpenAI, warns ChatGPT creator

Nickie Louise Posted On July 2, 2025

Robinhood’s attempt to tokenize shares of buzzy private companies just hit a wall. OpenAI is distancing itself from the trading app after it began offering what it called “OpenAI tokens” to users in Europe, without any involvement or consent from […]

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