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. The round was led by Westbound Equity Partners, with participation from the Geraldine R. Dodge […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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It’s Thursday, December 11, 2025, and we’re back with the day’s top startup and tech funding news across AI hardware, geothermal power, enterprise automation, biotech, crypto infrastructure, and developer tooling. From Seed to Series E, today’s funding rounds underscore strong […]

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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 […]

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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 company’s fastest model-to-model shift to date as competition in AI development intensifies. GPT-5.2 brings upgrades […]

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BitMEX has rolled out a major refresh of its mobile app, introducing a cleaner design and a new interaction model to help traders respond faster on the go. The update delivers a more focused interface, faster order flows, and gesture-based […]

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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 he’s stepping into on-chain gaming with SCOR, merging his design instincts with a platform built on sports fandom […]

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It’s Wednesday, December 10, 2025, and we’re back with the day’s 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, today’s funding […]

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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 […]

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Skydo has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round as India pushes toward a $2 trillion export target and exporters remain stuck with slow, expensive cross-border payments. The Bengaluru-based fintech startup‘s latest round was led by Susquehanna Asia […]

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BrainChip, the Australian chip company behind one of the earliest commercial neuromorphic AI processors, has raised $25 million to advance its technology toward production and real-world deployment. The funding will support continued work on its Akida chips, on-device generative AI […]

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