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Mar 17, 2025 • 4min
Omni raises $69M to design tools that help companies better analyze their data
Employees at many companies today are expected to make decisions through careful data analysis, but the tools they need to do it are clunky, slow or — in some cases — don’t exist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 15, 2025 • 4min
Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 14, 2025 • 5min
How La Fourche, an online organic supermarket, is thriving after q-commerce’s busted flush
La Fourche is just seven years old but it has been quite a rollercoaster for the French startup. During this time, the online grocery retailer has gone through a global pandemic, followed by the rise of venture-backed quick-commerce startups that promised grocery deliveries in less than 15 minutes, followed by the implosion of that vertical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 14, 2025 • 4min
Scimplify raises $40M to help manufacturers access specialty chemicals
Scimplify has raised $40 million in a new equity round backed by Accel to expand its presence in the U.S. and enter new markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 13, 2025 • 4min
Startup studio Hexa acquires majority stake in Veevart, a vertical SaaS platform for museums
Hexa is trying something new. Instead of fostering startups from the ground up and incubating them for the first year or so, the Paris-based startup studio is acquiring a majority stake in Veevart, a vertical software-as-a-service company for museums that provides solutions for ticketing, fundraising, CRM and collection management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 13, 2025 • 5min
General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested various parts of its unique approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 12, 2025 • 5min
Radiology AI software provider Gleamer expands into MRI with two small acquisitions
Medical imaging is a broad term that encompasses several distinct technologies. After working on AI-powered tools to enhance X-rays and mammographies, French startup Gleamer now aims to tackle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Instead of starting from scratch, Gleamer has acquired two startups that have already been working on AI-powered MRI analysis: Pixyl and Caerus Medica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 12, 2025 • 4min
Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently
Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 11, 2025 • 4min
Intangible AI, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M
Intangible AI, now backed by $4 million in seed funding, offers an AI-powered creative tool that allows users to create 3D world concepts with text prompts to aid creative professionals across a variety of industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 11, 2025 • 4min
CollX raises $10M to grow its card collection marketplace
CollX, a company offering an online trading card marketplace, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Austin-based Brand Foundry Ventures and Philadelphia-based 114 Ventures, both of which were previous investors in the company. Other investors such as Next Coast Ventures, FJ Labs, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners also participated . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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