Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software program engineer named Devin, has raised greater than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the corporate introduced on Wednesday. That’s a serious leap from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation when it closed a $400 million funding round simply eight months in the past in September. The…
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. He landed famed public investor Cathie Wood and her ARK Invest Venture Fund as a lead in a startup fundraising round. Lucra announced last month that it raised a $20 million Series B, led by the…
One news headline this week had a whiff of déjà vu about it. Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced that it was going public, hoping to garner investor support to build subterranean reactors to power AI data centers. Wait, didn’t I already write that story? I could have sworn that I did. Oh right, I did….
Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched his first startup, building machine learning models for sports betting. “I’ve always been drawn to solving difficult data problems,” he told TechCrunch. He went on to consulting, where he helped companies with their AI integration…
Parker, a well-funded startup providing company bank cards and banking companies for e-commerce companies, has filed for chapter and is extensively reported to have shut down. The startup was a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2019 cohort, and its Sequence A was led by Valar Ventures. Parker got here out of stealth in 2023, touting…
