AI agents can write code and answer questions, but they still fall apart on long, messy jobs. A Mountain View startup just raised $40M to build the training grounds that fix that. Bespoke Labs, which builds the environments that train and test AI agents, has raised $40 million, the company announced. The total spans a […]
Most big funding rounds shrink the founders’ slice. Skello’s just grew it. The profitable French HR startup has raised €200m to go shopping across Europe. Paris-based Skello has raised €200m led by Bridgepoint, EU-Startups reports. The unusual part: its founders and managers came out owning more of the company, not less, as Tech Funding News […]
Klarna wants to be a real American bank. The Swedish BNPL giant has applied for a US banking licence, betting a friendlier Washington will let it crack a market that has bruised European rivals. Klarna has applied to US regulators to set up its own bank, tech.eu reports. The Swedish fintech filed with the Utah […]
Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. Chinese giants Meituan and Tencent led the round. It makes the […]
The last wave of AI learned to describe the world. The next needs to learn how the world pushes back. A Cambridge startup thinks the answer hides inside video games. Worldmodeldata has raised £7m (€8m) to turn gameplay into AI training data, Tech Funding News reported. London’s Iona Star Capital led the seed round. Lord […]
Your prescription, printed to order. A Finnish startup wants to turn the back room of your pharmacy into a tiny, automated drug factory, and it just raised $14m to do it in America. CurifyLabs has closed a $14m (€12m) Series A, the company announced. The Helsinki firm makes machines and software that let pharmacies 3D-print […]
Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees your raw data, tech.eu reported. The Spanish company sells to banks, hospitals and governments, the customers […]
Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by Business Insider. The firms are leaner, flatter, and heavily weighted towards senior technical talent. Researchers Rembrand Koning and Hyunjin Kim examined Y Combinator startups from 2020 to 2024 alongside a broader set of […]
The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home robot, Isaac 1, does not walk, has no fingers, and mostly just wants to do your laundry. It also costs a fraction of its humanoid rivals. The Y Combinator-backed startup unveiled […]
Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Common Room, a Seattle startup whose AI reads the buying signals of potential customers, pushing Zoom deeper into enterprise sales software. Zoom announced the acquisition on Thursday. It did not disclose […]
