Another European fintech has joined the unicorn ranks. Berlin-based Moss has raised €30m in a Series C round that values the spend-management company at more than €1bn. The round was led by Portage. The specialist fintech investor headlined the raise, …
Nik Storonsky wants a bigger slice of Revolut, and he has picked an ambitious price. The cofounder and chief executive is in talks over a new share award, the Financial Times reported. It would grow his stake if the fintech reaches a $500 billion valua…
Yann LeCun has found a VC fund that will actually launch. The Meta former chief AI scientist is joining 224 Ventures, a new firm that announced Wednesday with more than $100 million in assets under management. His co-partner is Oriol Vinyals, who until…
Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel…
Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le,…
Moove has quietly become one of the more valuable names in autonomous mobility. The company has raised $250m in a Series C round that values it at $2.1bn, a marker of how far it has travelled from its origins. The backing is heavyweight. The round was …
Jeff Bezos has filed to sell 15 million shares of Amazon common stock, a stake worth roughly four billion dollars based on the company’s closing price on Monday. The filing, a Form 144 submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosed that…
Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. The round was led by Plural and HV, with participa…
Two former Nubank executives have raised $85m to build an AI wealth adviser in Brazil. Their backers call it the largest seed round in Latin American history. The startup, Decade, came out of stealth on Tuesday with money from Greenoaks, Benchmark and …
Obsidian Security has become the latest cybersecurity company to be repriced upward by artificial intelligence. The SaaS-security firm has raised a fresh funding of $85 Million Series D at a $1.1bn valuation as demand for tools that secure AI surges. T…