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Fox Completes Acquisition of Roku
Fox Corporation announced Friday that it has completed its acquisition of Roku, Inc., formally bringing the streaming platform under Fox ownership. The…
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Wonder, the Food Delivery Startup Behind Grubhub, Files for IPO
Wonder Group, Inc., the food delivery company founded by serial entrepreneur Marc Lore, said Thursday it has confidentially submitted a draft registration…
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Amazon Taps Uber Eats as Its Prime Restaurant Delivery Partner, Ending the Grubhub Deal
Amazon has made Uber Eats the official restaurant delivery partner for U.S. Prime members, the companies announced Thursday, ending Amazon’s four-year commercial…
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Zipline Raises $1.5 Billion at a $21.5 Billion Valuation as Walmart Expands Its Drone Delivery Bet
Drone delivery company Zipline has raised $1.5 billion in new funding at a $21.5 billion post-money valuation, the company announced Thursday, alongside…
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RadianX Raises $5 Million to Put Perovskite Solar in Devices That Never Need Charging
RadianX, a startup building perovskite solar cells designed to power electronics indoors, has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by SOSV…
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Nooks Secures $500 Million From General Catalyst Without Selling a Stake
Most funding announcements are equity: investors buy a piece of the company. Nooks, the AI sales automation startup, just raised half a…
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Fal Raises $1.3 Billion at $16 Billion Valuation as Demand for AI Inference Outruns Its Compute
The company that runs the models behind a growing share of the internet’s AI-generated images and video just doubled its price in…
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Druski Signs Netflix Deal as ‘Collect & Praise’ Sets December 1 Premiere
Druski is taking his characters to Netflix. The comedian, born Drew Desbordes, has signed a development and licensing deal with the streamer,…
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X Launches Invite-Only Video Kickstart Bonus to Pay Creators for Short-Form Posts
X is the latest platform to put direct money behind short video. The company has announced a “Video Kickstart Bonus,” an invite-only…
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Trajectory Raises $45 Million From Sequoia to Let Domain Experts Retrain AI Models
The most expensive sentence in enterprise AI right now is “we need engineers for that.” Trajectory, a startup founded about a year…
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Instagram Is Reportedly Offering YouTubers Up to $500,000 to Post Long-Form Video
Instagram is offering select YouTube creators between $50,000 and $500,000 to post their long-form videos on Features, its new 90-minute format, according…
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Northwood Space Raises $375 Million at a $2 Billion Valuation to Connect Satellites to Earth
Northwood Space, the Torrance startup building a shared ground network for satellites, said Monday it has closed a $375 million Series C…
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Sebastian Thrun Raises $130 Million for Dulo, His Bet on AI That Designs Hardware
Sebastian Thrun, the computer scientist behind Google’s self-driving car program and the founder of Udacity, is back with a new company and…
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DoorDash to Acquire Instacart for $17 Billion, Uniting Two Delivery Pioneers
The two companies that defined American delivery are becoming one. DoorDash announced on October 29 that it has signed a definitive agreement…
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FuriosaAI Said No to Meta’s $800M. Now It’s Worth $2.9 Billion
Nineteen months after walking away from Mark Zuckerberg’s checkbook, FuriosaAI has its vindication priced. The Seoul-based AI chip startup announced a $620…
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Collective Raises $100M to Give One-Person Businesses a Finance Department
The solopreneur economy just got a nine-figure back-office bet. Collective, the San Francisco startup that runs bookkeeping, payroll and taxes for one-person…
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Bedrock Robotics Raises $600M to Put Driverless Excavators on America’s Job Sites
The labor shortage in US construction has a new answer, and it drives itself. Bedrock Robotics, the San Francisco startup founded by…
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Eka Robotics Raises $150M to Give Robots a Sense of Touch
Robots can see. What most of them cannot do is feel, and that is why a machine that folds your laundry still…
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Xona Raises $250M to Build a Commercial GPS the Autonomous Economy Can Trust
GPS runs the modern economy and was never designed for the machines now using it. Xona Space Systems wants to fix that,…
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Ex-OpenAI Product Chief Kevin Weil Launches Warp Sciences With $215M to Roboticize Drug Chemistry
Kevin Weil’s next act after OpenAI is not another app. It is a factory full of robots doing chemistry. Warp Sciences, the…