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  • Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup

    Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup
    Apr 28 2025
    As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about to unlock capabilities…in the application layer in the software stack.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 m
  • British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries

    British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries
    Apr 25 2025
    Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is, to redevelop critical industry infrastructure, and to bring back businesses, which had moved or outsourced some or all of their industrial operations to cheaper countries further away. But that is easier said than done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 m
  • Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93M

    Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93M
    Apr 25 2025
    AI-generated code is no doubt changing how software is built, but it’s also introducing new security challenges. More than 50% of organizations encounter security issues with AI-produced code sometimes or frequently, according to a late 2023 survey by developer security platform Synk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 m
  • Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets

    Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets
    Apr 24 2025
    A new venture firm aims to prove that the most successful startup ideas don’t have to be born or scaled in Silicon Valley. Fluent Ventures, a global early-stage fund, is backing founders replicating proven business models from Western markets in fintech, digital health, and commerce across emerging markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 m
  • Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise

    Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise
    Apr 24 2025
    In 2020, when open source database Supabase was founded, its New Zealand-based CEO, Paul Copplestone, couldn’t have imagined it would be sitting in the sweet spot for 2025’s biggest trend: vibe coding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 m
  • Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI

    Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI
    Apr 23 2025
    Chatbots and other kinds of AI agents — and the companies that build them — may feel like a dime a dozen these days. But the truth is that, for both businesses and consumers, some may be infinitely more useful (and perhaps less dystopian) than others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 m
  • Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear

    Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear
    Apr 23 2025
    A startup called Superpower is publicly launching what it calls the world’s first super-app that is designed to help people better understand and take care of their health. For $499, the startup offers biannual lab testing that analyzes over 100 blood biomarkers across 21 categories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 m
  • Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere

    Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere
    Apr 22 2025
    Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire. Such is the case with Mechanize, a startup whose founder – and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    7 m
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