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This week confirmed that the deals may still be in a disturbed world, but value ideas and adjustments are now part of the picture.
The most interesting startup stories from the week
Indeterminate time is rarely good for M&AS, which enhances fear that tariffs upheaval -can have compromised on the startup exhaust outlook for 2025. But do not expect the total deal – as confirmed by the news of this week.
price conscious: Anysp there, the company behind the Karsar, is growing so fast that the acquisition by Openai is allegedly away from the table. Whether Openai will acquire Windsurf instead, it is to be confirmed, but the competition between two AI coding subsidiaries is heating up.
Aircraft: Detaidogs acquired an AI-managed data observability startup metaplane, a YC alum that has raised some $ 22.2 million to date. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
hired out: The VC firm and his podcast network, after Turdenine, became the newest companion of Torrenburg A16Z, whose shows are ready to continue.
Size: Ather Energy, an Indian EV startup is demanding to go publicly, trimming its IPO size and target evaluation citing market conditions.
The most interesting VC and funding news this week
This week confirmed that vibe coding could be equally hot, but startups in many other areas also raised funding. In addition, there is still money to be deployed in emerging markets.
Vibe coding: An open source database startup, which benefits from campaigning around the vibe coding tool, an open source database startup raised a $ 200 million series D after seven months of the C round in $ 900 million valuations, which has now officially increased to $ 2 billion.
Adaptive computers, a vibe coding startup that focuses on the non-programmer by day 1, also raised funding: the seed round of $ 7 million led by pebbles.
A lot of chats: Many Chhats, which provide an A-SAP to manage and automate conversations in many messaging channels for businesses, raised a $ 140 million series B led by the Summit partners.
Spotting Falls: Endor Labs, a startup that makes the equipment to scan the AI-based code for weaknesses, locked the $ 93 million series B round led by DFJ Growth.
Sovereign AI: East known as Xayn, a Berlin -based legal AI startup Noxua picked up a $ 92.2 million series B, which follows its axis in developing sovereign AI for cases of law related to law related to legal documents.
Shear currency: Fintech API Brokerage Startup Alpaka raised a $ 52 million series C to expand internationally.
Virtual siso: Cynomi, a London- and Tel Aviv-based startup that provides SMBS with the AI-operated “virtual CISO”, co-in-laws B by Insight Partners and Entry Capital co-in-laws B.
Superpower: After collecting the 150,000-individual weightlist, the Health Tech Startup Superpower publicly launched and announced that it extended a $ 30 million series supported by many celebrities.
Credit financing: Froda, a Swedish Fintech Startup that developed a debt financing platform for SMBs, captured $ 22.7 million series B led by the Swedish Fund Incor Invest.
cheat code: 21 -year -old Columbia student Chungin “Roy”, who was suspended after developing a job interview -cheating equipment, raised $ 5.3 million in seed funding for her startup, which Calluli, which “to cheat on everything” offers AI Tools.
copy paste: Over 75 unicorn founders and supported by VCS, fluent enterprise is distributing $ 40 million to international founders, copying the proven business model in emerging markets.
last but not least
If you remember this, Techstars recently updated its standard deal: it will now invest $ 220,000 in a startup entering its three -month program. It is $ 100,000 more than before, with the terms of the new deal which is of the mirror Y Combinator.
