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23-Year-Old Founder's AI Assistant Instinct Valued at $2.5 Billion, Raised $350 Million in Six Months

AI startup Instinct, founded a year ago and led by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, raised a $250M Series B, bringing total funding to $350M at a $2.5B valuation, co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark. Launched by Spear Street Technology, it builds AI agents that manage users' lives across apps.....

4 days ago16.6K

Robot Startup Generalist Completes New Round of Financing, Valued at $3 Billion

Robotics startup Generalist raised nearly $200M in new funding led by 8VC, valuing it at $3B. This extends its $400M Series B led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation in June, bringing total Series B to $600M. Founded in 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers Pete Florence, Andy Zeng and ex-Boston Dynamics engineer Andrew Barry.....

5 days ago12.2K

India's Airbound Launches Rocket-shaped Drone: Weight Less Than Load, Competing with Trucks for Freight Costs

Indian drone startup Airbound raised $37M Series A, total nearly $50M, less than a year after seed. It aims to cut drone cargo costs to trucking levels. Its tail-sitter VTOL drones weigh less than payload: current TRT ~1.5 kg carries 1 kg; next-gen 3 kg, max payload 5 kg.....

6 days ago12.9K

Lady Gaga's Boyfriend Quietly Plans: Training AI with Living Skin. How Is This Biotech Startup Revolutionizing Beauty R&D?

The biotech startup Outer Biosciences, co-founded by Lady Gaga's partner Michael Polansky, is tackling the challenge of maintaining human living tissues outside the body for long periods and integrating them deeply with artificial intelligence, aiming to revolutionize beauty and medical research and development, breaking through the bottleneck of traditional biochemical innovations struggling to match the pace of software iteration.

6 days ago13.8K

Hugging Face Seeks to Sell, Valuation May Reach $13 Billion

Hugging Face is exploring a sale at $13B+, per Business Insider. The NYC AI startup hosts open-source models and datasets, working with banks to gauge buyer interest. Its 2023 round valued it at $4.5B, led by Salesforce, Google, Nvidia.....

08-2413.3K

Harvard Business School Introduces AI Virtual Mentor, 699 USD Startup Training Program Launched

HBS Foundry introduces AI avatar mentors for personalized feedback. The 8-week, $699 program includes weekly live classes; mock pitches and board meetings are AI-guided. Avatars by HeyGen; a NYT reporter used Flybridge Capital founder Jeff Bussgang's AI avatar for a startup pitch.....

08-2411.2K