Startups News

• Rivian spinoff Also begins delivering e-bikes after months of delays
• Index Ventures raises $2B for trio of funds to back startups across stages
• AI startup CEO offers job interviews to candidates who get company tattoo
• VC-backed startups commit more fraud, researchers find
• Ellis AI raises $10M seed to build AI platform for private credit managers
• Amazon's Zoox wins first US approval for paid robotaxis without steering wheels
• Smallest.ai raises $13M for asynchronous voice AI architecture
• Scale AI hires former enterprise-cloud executive Francis deSouza as CEO
• Satellite startup K2 Space raises $500M at $6.8B valuation, backed by Iconiq
• Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation to build AI twins of consumers for market research
• Commonwealth Fusion Systems shows signs of planning an IPO in the next two to three years
• Inforcer raises $50M to help small businesses manage AI and security risks
• A German startup films a private chef cooking to train future humanoid robots
• Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup Rosaic led by former investment partner
• Dili raises $21.7M for AI compliance platform for infrastructure boom
• German startup uses camera-wearing chef to record cooking for robot training
• Perplexity employee launches Polar, an AI-first browser for knowledge workers, raises $5.7M
• Groundcover raises $100M to build observability for the AI era