Itβs Tuesday, December 16, 2025, and weβre back with todayβs top startup and tech funding news spanning enterprise AI, stablecoin payments, clean energy, cybersecurity, biotech, and generative developer infrastructure. From seed rounds to late-stage billion-dollar raises, todayβs deals highlight sustained [β¦]
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Alphabetβs autonomous driving unit Waymo is in talks with investors on a funding round that could value the company at around $100 billion, according to multiple reports published Tuesday. People familiar with the discussions say the raise could reach into [β¦]
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Vital Lyfe, a tech startup founded by former SpaceX engineers, has raised $24 million to bring portable, infrastructure-free water production closer to everyday use. The financing includes more than $18 million in seed funding, with the remainder structured as committed [β¦]
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Mexican fintech Plata has secured a $500 million financing facility arranged by Nomura Securities International, marking the largest private credit transaction to date for a fintech company in Mexico, Reuters reported. The deal comes as Plata prepares to launch full [β¦]
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Fintech giant PayPal has applied for regulatory approval to launch PayPal Bank, expanding small business lending and interest-bearing savings as it pushes deeper into financial services. PayPalβs Banking Ambitions Grow as Company Applies to Launch PayPal Bank PayPal is taking [β¦]
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Itβs Monday, December 15, 2025, and weβre back with the dayβs top startup and tech funding news across geothermal power, quantum computing, enterprise automation, generative AI, fintech, and voice technology. From Seed to Series F, todayβs funding rounds highlight firm [β¦]
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Oobit, a crypto payments startup that enables day-to-day stablecoin spending at more than 100 million merchants worldwide, has announced a partnership with Plasma to supercharge its global payments network.Β The Tether-backed fintech startup is integrating Plasmaβs vertically-integrated stablecoin infrastructure to [β¦]
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Navier, a San Francisco-based AI startup, is stepping out of stealth with $5.6 million in seed funding and a bold claim about how engineering work gets done. The round includes backing from GV (Google Ventures), HCVC, and Y Combinator, signaling [β¦]
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Technology News Today β Your Daily Briefing on the AI, Big Tech, and Startup Shifts Reshaping Markets Itβs Monday, December 15, 2025, and weβre back with a focused look at the forces reshaping the global tech landscape β from AI [β¦]
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iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robotic vacuum, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, marking a sharp turn for one of consumer roboticsβ most recognizable brands. The filing clears the way for the company to go private under [β¦]
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Software company ServiceNow is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal that could reach $7 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. If completed, the transaction would stand as ServiceNowβs largest acquisition to date. [β¦]
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Technology News Today β Your Daily Briefing on the AI, Big Tech, and Startup Shifts Reshaping Markets Itβs Friday, December 12, 2025, and weβre back with a focused look at the forces reshaping the global tech landscape β from AI [β¦]
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Esusu, a black-owned fintech startup focused on expanding credit access for renters, has secured $50 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $1.2 billion.Β The round was led by Westbound Equity Partners, with participation from the Geraldine R. Dodge [β¦]
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Disney is placing a major bet on generative video, committing $1 billion to OpenAI in a deal that allows the startup to use characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar inside its Sora AI video generator, Disney announced Thursday. The [β¦]
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Imagine a fast-moving market that changes in seconds, and your data feed is lagging. By the time you become aware, prices have moved, and orders are stale, leaving you to try to salvage your trade or business. But with real-time [β¦]
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Itβs Thursday, December 11, 2025, and weβre back with the dayβs top startup and tech funding news across AI hardware, geothermal power, enterprise automation, biotech, crypto infrastructure, and developer tooling. From Seed to Series E, todayβs funding rounds underscore strong [β¦]
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Harness has secured $200 million in new funding led by Goldman Sachs, pushing the AI software development startup to a $5.5 billion valuation. The raise is part of a larger $240 million Series E package that includes a planned $40 [β¦]
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OpenAI on Thursday introduced GPT-5.2, calling it its most capable model yet for day-to-day professional work. The release comes only weeks after GPT-5.1, marking the companyβs fastest model-to-model shift to date as competition in AI development intensifies. GPT-5.2 brings upgrades [β¦]
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Streetwear has been crossing into digital culture for years, but few figures have shaped that intersection as deeply as Edison Chen. Now heβs stepping into on-chain gaming with SCOR, merging his design instincts with a platform built on sports fandom [β¦]
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Itβs Wednesday, December 10, 2025, and weβre back with the dayβs top startup and tech funding news across quantum hardware, cybersecurity infrastructure, frontier biotech, underwater robotics, parametric insurance, and circular retail logistics. From seed rounds to Series B1, todayβs funding [β¦]
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Baseten is deepening its AI specialization with the acquisition of Parsed, a startup focused on reinforcement learning and post-training work for large language models, the company announced Wednesday. The deal aims to bring production data, fine-tuning, and inference under one [β¦]
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