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AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia Nov 13, 2025

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WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors.

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Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar Nov 12, 2025

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Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.

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How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start Nov 11, 2025

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Startups should start forging connections with late-stage investors while they are still at the early stages.

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6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind Nov 11, 2025

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Amanda Kahlow has been quietly been back in sales and marketing tech for about a year with agentic startup 1Mind.

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Knicks player Miles McBride launches Mmotion, a location-sharing friendship app, also, Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off Nov 10, 2025

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Mmotion is a new friendship app that combines elements of location sharing with social discovery features to find nearby users with shared interests.

Also, Scribe Optimize is the startup's next major offering to help organizations identify where AI will be most useful.

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How startups can lure good talent fairly without big tech bank accounts Nov 10, 2025

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Three industry insiders walk through how startups can set up an employee equity strategy that remains fair as a company grows.

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How one founder plans to save cities from flooding with terraforming robots; plus Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund Nov 07, 2025

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Instead of building seawalls or dikes, Terranova has developed a new way to raise cities to protect them from sea-level rise.

In addition, Chris Sacca’s venture firm Lowercarbon Capital is raising a second fund to back nuclear fusion energy hopefuls, the VC said at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit on Thursday, as reported by Bloomberg.

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Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of stealth; plus, Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models Nov 06, 2025

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Evotrex joins startups like Lightship, Pebble, and Grounded in trying to disrupt the RV market, which is skewing younger.

Also, diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they can be even more powerful applied in software development.

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Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’ Nov 06, 2025

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Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends.

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This startup’s metal stacks could help solve AI’s massive heat problem Nov 05, 2025

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Alloy Enterprises has developed a new additive manufacturing technique that can improve liquid cooling performance while bringing it to new parts of the server rack.

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