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Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools Jun 16, 2025

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WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another communication-focused startup to its lineup: relationship-management app Clay.

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Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient Jun 13, 2025

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The company, based in the U.K., offers a productivity suite to streamline the legal drafting and review process.

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Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup Jun 13, 2025

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Standard Nuclear was the winning bidder for Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's fuel-related assets at a bankruptcy auction.

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Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A Jun 12, 2025

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Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream

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Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG Jun 12, 2025

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Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

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Mitra Chem is raising $50M for its cheaper, domestic battery materials Jun 11, 2025

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Mitra Chem is developing materials to make lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries store more energy.

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XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month Jun 11, 2025

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XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots.

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An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs and other socially taboo products Jun 10, 2025

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Impact investor and advisor Christian Tooley posed a simple question to the audience at SXSW London last week: What if investors put aside societal prudence for profit? Tooley was mainly referring to vice clauses, the restrictions that limited partners place on venture firms to guardrail their investments.

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Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers Jun 10, 2025

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American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon.

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Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too Jun 09, 2025

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The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling.

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