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Context gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suite Jun 02, 2025

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AI-powered office suite Context raises $11 million in seed funding from Lux Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and General Catalyst

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Rillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AI May 30, 2025

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Rillet directly pulls data from their customers' banks and platforms to generate financial statements, including the balance sheet and income statement.

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A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding May 30, 2025

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Reflecting on 10 years since its launch, the honeypot maker explains why the company did not take on any VC funding.

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Litehaus raises €1.46M pre-seed to build home-building platform May 29, 2025

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All Thibault Launay and his wife Simi wanted nearly five years ago was to build a dream home in Portugal, where they both now live. But what they encountered instead was a broken system. “Fourteen months of delays, 20% budget overruns, and endless stress managing over 10 subcontractors,” Thibault recalled.

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Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8 billion May 29, 2025

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Salesforce has acquired cloud data management firm Informatica in an $8 billion equity deal, marking a major move in its push to strengthen its AI and data infrastructure capabilities. The announcement, made Tuesday, comes about a year after early rumors of the acquisition sent both companies’ stock prices sliding.

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Rocket Lab backer Outset raises $25M to fund New Zealand’s deep tech moonshots May 28, 2025

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Outset Ventures, the Auckland-based venture firm and incubator that spun out deep tech unicorns like Rocket Lab and LanzaTech, has closed its second fund at an oversubscribed $41.5 million NZD.

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RevenueCat raises $50M as it expands beyond mobile app monetization May 28, 2025

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Key to the company's growth are the next products RevenueCat has on its roadmap, the company's founder says.

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The wild story of how gut health AI toilet startup Throne raised $4M led by Moxxie May 27, 2025

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The tale of how smart toilet startup Throne landed its seed round is so full of serendipities, one could almost believe it was orchestrated by the hand of Fortuna, Roman god of providence.

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A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model May 27, 2025

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A third-party research institute that Anthropic partnered with to test one of its new flagship AI models, Claude Opus 4, recommended against deploying an early version of the model due to its tendency to “scheme” and deceive.

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Hinge Health pops 17%, but joins growing ranks of down round IPOs May 26, 2025

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Hinge Health, a digital physical therapist company, closed its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday at $37.56, up about 17% over the $32 IPO price it set the previous day. That’s a good first-day result.

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