Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth

AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by ICONIQ after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending,…

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Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Jane Street has installed Etched’s first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.

Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India

Perplexity’s India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York

The scanning and bloodwork health startup founded by Spotify’s founder will officially launch in New York in about a month.

Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans

The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the US changed dramatically.

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