Expedition Growth Capital $375 Million Fund III

Clinton / ventureburn - Expedition Closes Its Third Fund at the Hard Cap Expedition Growth Capital has completed the raise of Fund III. The fund reached $375 million. It closed at the hard cap.The post Expedition Growth Capital $375 Million Fund III appeared first on Ventureburn.

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YouTube Takes on Spotify With Its New Recap Feature

Ty Pendlebury / cnet - YouTube fans can now view a summary of their watching habits from the past year.

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Apple Music Replay 2025 is here to highlight your unimpeachable music taste

Kris Holt / engadget - Music streaming services are starting to unleash their year-in-review features for 2025, and Apple Music’s version is out now. Apple Music Replay is here to lay bare your listening stats for the year — at least so far, because these tools go live with a w…

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Audio language model startup Gradium raises $70M to create more realistic voice AI systems

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Audio artificial intelligence startup Gradium is launching today after closing on an impressive $70 million seed funding round, just three months after it was founded. The startup is backed by investors that include FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, which le…

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Retail operations automation startup Duvo raises $15M

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Automation startup Duvo says it’s ready to provide retail and e-commerce teams with an artificial intelligence agent workforce that handles their day-to-day operations after raising $15 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by Index Ventures and …

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Meta's Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week

cnbc - The RTO policy only applies to Instagram and not to Meta's other family of apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp.

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Shopify is down, disrupting Cyber Monday shopping

Kris Holt / engadget - Here’s hoping the retailers offering tasty Cyber Monday deals that caught your eye aren’t having trouble with Shopify. The ecommerce platform is experiencing some issues. According to a support page, some merchants were having trouble logging into the Sho…

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MKBHD’s wallpaper app Panels is shutting down

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - "We knew it was niche... and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Marques Brownlee said.

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2025 was filled with rage bait. Why Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year makes total sense

Grace Snelling / fastcompany - Oxford Dictionary just revealed its official word of 2025. It’s “rage bait.”According to an official announcement post, Oxford Dictionary’s team of lexicographers choose a shortlist of potential words each year by analyzing data and trends to “identify ne…

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OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential.

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New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Runway has released Gen-4.5, a new AI video model that has claimed the top spot on independent benchmarks, outperforming Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro.The post New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2 appeared fi…

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Ahead Of 2026 Launch, Marble Imaging Secures €5.3M for High-Resolution Earth Observation

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Bremen-based Marble Imaging has announced the closing of its oversubscribed €5.3 million Seed round, ahead of its first satellite launch scheduled for Q4 2026. The funding will support scaling operations and accelerating product and technology development…

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Nvidia takes USD2b stake in chip software maker Synopsys

Paige McNamee / capitalbrief - Nvidia said on Monday that it has purchasedUSD2 billion ($3.05 billion) of Synopsys’ common stock as part of a strategic engineeringand design partnership.

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Payments Firm Sokin Valued at $300 Million After New Funding

PYMNTS / pymnts - Business payments company Sokin has raised $50 million in a new funding round. The Series B round brings Sokin’s valuation to $300 million, and will help accelerate the company’s expansion, bolster its financial infrastructure and enhance its product capa…

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