Neko Health, the health assessment and body scanning startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 million Series C. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and OG Venture Partners. This follows the company’s $260 million Series B raised in January 2025.
AI models are becoming more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big unknown. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have created independent companies dedicated to deploying AI engineers in their clients’ offices, a bid to help companies figure out how to use their AI
Physical credentials used to be all that was needed for identity management in an enterprise. But now that humans work alongside machines and AI agents in digital environments, even identity tools built for the cloud era are proving inadequate. That’s the gap that Israeli startup Oak is trying to stealthily fill, he says. Co-founded by
DeepSeek, the Chinese developer of large language models, is preparing for its IPO debut in 2027, but it could arrive as soon as ind this year as it also seeks to raise about $1.5 billion in new funding at a valuation of about $71 billion, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after the company raised $7
If you remember running home after school to grab the family landline and call your best friend before dinner, a new device from Pinwheel aims to reboot that experience for a new generation. The kid-focused technology company on Tuesday announced the launch of Pinwheel Home, a modern take on the classic home phone designed to
Nous Research, the startup behind open source agent Hermes, is finalizing a new funding round led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a valuation of $1.5 billion, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. The company is raising at least $75 million and has drawn a