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TLDR: Search startup Perplexity AI has raised $73.6 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm IVP, valuing the company at approximately $520 million. The investors in the round included

TLDR: US venture capital fundraising has hit a 6-year low, with $79.2bn raised in 2023, down 25% from 2022. The decline is attributed to less investor interest in early-stage investments, concerns about

TL;DR: Search startup Perplexity AI has raised $73.6 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm IVP. The round also included investments from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Databricks, and Bessemer Venture

TLDR Crypto venture capital firm Polychain Capital has confirmed that the X account of its founder and CEO, Olaf Carlson-Wee, has been compromised. The hacker has been posting phishing links disguised as

TLDR: More women are starting their own businesses, accounting for nearly half of new entrepreneurs in recent years, according to a report from Gusto. While progress has been made, a funding gap

TLDR: – Venture capitalist Jai Malik has decided to shut down his industrial startup-focused fund, Countdown Capital. – In a letter to his limited partners, Malik explained that the increasing power and

Venture capital funding drooped in 2023 amid global economic slowdown TLDR: Venture capital funding dropped 38% in 2023 amid a global economic slowdown Venture capital investors have continued to hold back on

TLDR: Exponent Founders Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, has raised $75 million for its Fund II vehicle. The firm will use the funds to invest in inception and early-stage companies in

TLDR: Nine Houston startups secured funding in the fourth quarter of 2023. Amperon Holdings Inc. raised $20 million in its latest round of funding to accelerate its energy analytics and grid decarbonization

TLDR: Houston startups concluded 2023 with a number of successful funding rounds, ranging from seed rounds to series C rounds and extensions. Key startups that secured funding in the fourth quarter of