Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Department of Defense engineers in 2017, five years before the public launch of ChatGPT, was prescient. The startup’s technology helps companies distinguish legitimate human users from increasingly hidden bot traffic to help
The market for AI-generated speech models is huge. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more expressive, while companies looking to automate customer service and sales operations need them to be more manageable. Palo Alto-based Fish Audio wants to address all of those use cases with its library of more than 15,000 natural
Defense technology company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may increase its valuation to between $40 billion and about $100 billion, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. The company, which raised $5 billion in May at a valuation of $61 billion (roughly double the $30.5 billion valuation it garnered in
Corgi, an insurance technology, data room software and coffee shop startup, is reportedly raising another round that closely follows its latest raise and would double its valuation, sources told Forbes. The round is said to be a second extension of its Series B round and is already closed. Corgi announced its latest round, the $106
As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends to full-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online connection: social networks without algorithms, without ads, and without public content. Yope’s app, now backed by a $12.3 million round led by Northzone,
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board of directors following the investment. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall and others participated in the round. Perhaps most notably, Uber also joined the funding round, reconnecting Kalanick with the company he founded,
