Thema Raises $6.2M To Map Market Expansion For Private Equity

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Thema has raised $6.2 million to tackle gaps in how private equity firms assess portfolio risk and shape expansion strategies amid shifting software valuations. The total includes $4.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Stride.vc, with partic…

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Sambanova introduces new AI accelerator, partners with Intel to deploy Xeon CPUs for inferencing and agentic workloads — Sambanova claims SN50 chip is three times more efficient than Nvidia B200

tomshardware - SambaNova says its SN50 AI accelerator platform is about five times faster and three times more efficient than Nvidia's B200. In addition, the company signs a pact with Intel to offer Xeon-based AI systems to enterprises and governments.

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Allica Bank Raises $155M in Series D Funding

FinSMEs / finsmes - Allica Bank, a London, UK-based digital bank for small and medium businesses (SMBs), raises $155M in Series D funding, at $1.2 Billion valuation. Backers included Ventura Capital, GLG, Sona AM and existing investors TCV and Blue Owl. The company intends t…

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MatX Raises $500 Million To Develop AI Chips Competing With Nvidia

Clinton / ventureburn - MatX Accelerates AI Chip Innovation AI chip startup MatX has raised over $500 million to develop hardware that can compete directly with Nvidia. The company was founded in 2022 byThe post MatX Raises $500 Million To Develop AI Chips Competing With Nvidia …

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AI accounting startup Basis raises $100M at $1.15B valuation from Accel, GV to automate Big Four drudgery

Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Artificial intelligence is no longer just a back-office tool in finance. It is now directly affecting how accounting…

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Nimble raises $47M to scale agentic web search platform for enterprise AI

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Nimble announced today that it has raised $47 million in new funding to accelerate development of its agentic web search platform, expand its multi-agent research capabilities and scale up its governed real-time web data infrastructure for enterprise arti…

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Stripe Reaches Record Valuation as Global Volume Hits $1.9 Trillion

PYMNTS / pymnts - Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer designed to provide liquidity to current and former employees, the programmable financial services company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 24) update. The figure is up from the $106.7 billion valuation the compa…

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Dutch AI inference chipmaker Axelera AI raises $250M

John Reynolds / tech - A Dutch chipmaker which designs and manufactures chips for AI inference use has raised more than $250m, with backing from new investor BlackRock.Innovation Industries, the European VC fund, is the lea...

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Hong Kong's RedotPay said to plan blockbuster $1 billion IPO in New York: Bloomberg

Omkar Godbole / coindesk - The stablecoin payments company has hired JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies, according to Bloomberg.

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Xflow Raises $16.6M from PayPal, General Catalyst and others

Ekemini / ventureburn - Xflow, an Indian startup focused on cross-border payments, just raised $16.6 million in Series A funding. General Catalyst led the round, and PayPal Ventures joined in, along with Lightspeed, Stripe,The post Xflow Raises $16.6M from PayPal, General Cataly…

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SambaNova steps up its challenge to Nvidia with new chip, $350M funding and a powerful ally in Intel

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Chipmaker SambaNova Systems Inc. unveiled its most advanced artificial intelligence processor today as it closed on a bumper $350 million late-stage round of funding from Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and others. Alongside the funding, SambaNova …

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Frankenburg Technologies Raises €30M in Series A Funding

FinSMEs / finsmes - Frankenburg Technologies, a Tallinn, Estonia-based company which specializes in missile systems designed for mass production and rapid regeneration, raised €30M in Series a funding. The round was led by Plural and followed by SmartCap. The raise brought t…

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OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push

BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has formed a multi-year "Frontier Alliance" with four consulting heavyweights to accelerate enterprise adoption of its no-code AI agent platform, OpenAI Frontier. TechCrunch reports: The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and …

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Former Apple Employees Just Released A Weather App Replacement That Doesn't Suck

bgr - The former Apple developers who created Dark Sky have just released a new weather app, and it's already winning over fans of the original app.

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Hypercore Secures $13.5M to Launch AI Admin Agent

Ekemini / ventureburn - Hypercore has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to build software infrastructure for private credit funds. The funding will expand the reach of the company’s AI Admin Agent softwareThe post Hypercore Secures $13.5M to Launch AI Admin Agent appeared…

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Based Raises $11.5M To Expand Crypto SuperApp Globally

Clinton / ventureburn - Based Expands Its Web3 Consumer SuperApp Based, a Web3 consumer SuperApp, has raised $11.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Pantera Capital with participation from CoinbaseThe post Based Raises $11.5M To Expand Crypto SuperApp Globally ap…

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IQM is going public at a $1.8B valuation. Could this be Europe’s first quantum IPO?

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Classical computers struggle to handle complex simulations in drug discovery, materials science, and optimisation because quantum physics demands…

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Syndicate One Raises €22M Second Fund To Support Belgian Tech Founders

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Syndicate One has announced the first close of its second fund at €22 million. The fund was oversubscribed within eight weeks of its initial pitch highlighting strong investor confidence in Belgium’s growing tech ecosystem. This follows the firm’s €6.5 mi…

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InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting

Marina Temkin / techcrunch - The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties of prepping financial statements.

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