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Metafuels lands $8 million bet on greener skies ahead Dec 14, 2023

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Metafuels sets out to change the landscape of sustainable jet fuel, and has just picked up an $8 million suitcase from baggage carousel 3 at its local ZRH. Ahh, Zurich.

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Procurement software startup Pivot raises $21.6 million just a few months after its creation Dec 13, 2023

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French startup Pivot is an interesting startup story as it is scaling at a rapid pace even though startup investments are down in Europe.

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Tribe Capital eyes leading $75M-plus funding in India’s Shiprocket Dec 13, 2023

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Tribe Capital is in talks to lead a $75 million to $100 million funding into the logistics aggregator Shiprocket, according to a person familiar with the matter, a notable financing deliberation at a time when Indian startups are struggling to raise capital.

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Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January Dec 12, 2023

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AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January.

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Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round Dec 12, 2023

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French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round.

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Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster? Dec 11, 2023

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Texas has been historically known for its oil booms. Today the state is perhaps better known as a magnet for tech companies and tech talent, especially in its capital city of Austin.

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Simply Homes nabs $22M, leverages AI to tackle affordable housing crisis Dec 11, 2023

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The United States has long had an affordable housing crisis, but it’s been exacerbated as of late by a surge in mortgage interest rates and low inventory.

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Mammoth, an X and Threads competitor, embraces news, curation, and more in latest release Dec 08, 2023

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Mammoth, an app from the Mozilla-backed startup focused on building a more consumer-friendly entry point to the world of decentralized social media, is out today with its next big upgrade: Mammoth 2.

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Pimento turns creative briefs into visual mood boards using generative AI Dec 08, 2023

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Pimento is a new French startup that is using generative AI in an interesting way as the company focuses on the first step of creative processes — ideation, brainstorming and moodboarding.

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OurSky lands $9.5M seed to build out developer platform for space data Dec 07, 2023

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A developer platform for the…sky? That’s the vision of OurSky, a startup founded last year that’s aiming to make space observational data more accessible via a software platform and global telescope network.

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