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Back to news homeGenerative AI startup AI21 Labs lands $155M at a $1.4B valuation
AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round led by Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, […]
Bitcoin startups remain undercapitalized as funding drought drags on
The crypto industry has not had a great run over the past year. Along with increasing regulatory scrutiny and skeptical investors, capital deployment has pulled back significantly from the highs […]
Customer engagement platform Beamer raises $20M
Beamer, a no-code platform to build tools for measuring and monitoring product engagement, last week announced that it received a $20 million investment from Camber Partners, Beamer’s first outside round […]
BNPL vendor Splitit moves to go private in exchange for fresh funds
As the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market continues on its slow decline, one of the major players, Splitit, is embarking on an effort to reorganize and pivot. Splitit today […]
Symmetry raises $18M to bolster organizations’ data security programs
As organizations embrace cloud services — and are forced to confront changing regulations and data use standards — their ability to maintain control of data security frequently becomes strained. If […]
The fintech funding slump, by the numbers
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. When it came to fintech news, we saw a pretty sluggish first half of 2023, and that […]
Making sense of the latest climate tech funding trend stories
Last year, when venture capital’s fiery streak cooled, climate tech held strong with tens of billions in deals despite geopolitical instability, hiked-up interest rates and crypto chaos. Still, the state […]
Sapphire Ventures plans to invest over $1B in enterprise AI startups
VC firm Sapphire Ventures says that it plans to invest more than $1 billion in AI-related enterprise startups, demonstrating the strong appetite among investors for cutting-edge AI tech. Reuters reports […]
Quandri raises $8.5M Series A to bring process automation to insurance brokers and agencies
Robotic process automation (RPA) has been a buzzword for a while now, but most of these tools that try to help businesses automate their workflows tend to be generalists. Quandri, […]