Theia Insights grabs $8M to map the global economy with AI

Cambridge-based deeptech company Theia Insights has raised $8 million in Series A funding, ledby MiddleGame Ventures, with participation from Further Ventures and UnusualVentures. The round brings the…

Klarna veterans launch Galdera with €1.5M for AI financial modeling

Stockholm-based Galdera Labs has launchedwith €1.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-driven platform forfinancial modelling. The round was led by J12 Ventures, with participation fromAntler…

The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app
The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app

The best snow-forecasting app for skiers and snowboarders isn’t from any of the federally funded weather services. Nor from any of the big-name brands. It’s an independent app startup that leverages government data, its own AI models, and decades of alpine-life experience to offer better snow (and soon avalanche) predictions than anything else out there.…

SOUS secures €4M to develop AI growth tools for restaurants

Amsterdam-basedSOUS, an AI-powered growth platform for independent food and beveragebusinesses, has raised €4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Seed +Speed Ventures, with participation fro…

London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure
London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure

Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. The rou…

Granola raises $125M at $1.5BN valuation

Granola, the AI note-taking app, has bagged a $125m funding round, elevating its valuation to $1.5bn, hitting unicorn startus, it announced today. The funding round was led by Index Ventures, with par…

Y Combinator-backed Mandel AI raises $3.9M to automate global supply chains

Mandel AI has raised $3.9 million Seed funding to build coordination for global supply chains. The startup has developed an AI supply chain coordinator that helps manufacturers manage supplier coord…

Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles
Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles

Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The layoffs are the latest in a rolling s…

Gemini on Google TV can now answer your questions, teach concepts, and deliver sports briefs

Google is adding Gemini features to Google TV that let you ask questions, explore topics, and stay updated with sports briefs, all in one place.

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called Axplorer, is a redesign of an existing one called PatternBoost that François Charton, now a research scientist at Axiom, co-developed in 2024…