March 29, 2025

Fundraising

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Anthropic-backed, AI code review platform Graphite raises cash

Anthropic-backed, AI code review platform Graphite raises cash : AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI.

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Al Gore, Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS

Al Gore, Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS : When it comes to climate-related investments, the lion’s share has gone to companies working in energy and transportation. Most investors overlook actual lions — that is, nature-based solutions like biodiversity tend to get short shrift in the investment world. Just $35 billion was

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Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American made batteries

Coreshell  : The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the entire battery supply chain behind them. Those incentives, plus decades of industrial policy focused on controlled critical mineral supply chains, has left American and European automakers flat-footed. Take graphite, for example. Every lithium-ion

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TurinTech reveals $20M in backing to fix problems in ‘vibe coding’

TurinTech. So-called “vibe coding” with LLM-driven tools like Cursor Composer — a term coined by renowned computer scientist Andrej Karpathy — describes a hands-off approach to writing code using GenAI models, and it has really taken off recently. According to Y Combinator, one-quarter of the startups in its latest batch relies on AI to generate

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GrubMarket raises $50M at a $3.5B+ valuation to build AI

U.S. President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in growth forecasts being cut amid an uncertain public mood — all of which will inevitably impact the technology sector. On Tuesday, however, food e-commerce startup GrubMarket seemed impervious to these macroeconomic concerns: it announced a new equity round of $50 million at a post-money

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Nvidia AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

Nvidia AI empire: No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over two years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. And its stock price soared.  During that period, the world’s leading

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Geothermal unicorn Fervo Energy may IPO as early as next year

Geothermal startup Fervo Energy is reportedly eyeing an initial public offering in the next two years. Driving the consideration is the growing concern over power demand growth from data centers, which could double by 2029. “There’s clearly a huge hunger in the public markets right now to figure out, how are we going to solve

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Bria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed data

AI-powered image generators, which are at the center of a number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies, are frequently trained on massive amounts of data from public websites. Most of these companies argue that fair use doctrine shields their data scraping and training practices. But many copyright holders disagree.  That’s why some startups and firms developing image

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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. That’s according to Colin Zima, the CEO of Omni, a business intelligence (BI) platform that aims to help organizations simplify how they

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TechCrunch All Stage unveils a powerhouse agenda for founders

TechCrunch All Stage (formerly Early Stage) returns to Boston on July 15, and the agenda for our tentpole East Coast founder event is almost complete. We’re excited to share this sneak peek at some of the fantastic speakers and sessions we have on tap.  For builders who are just starting on their founder journey, our

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