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Some startups earned the price at electricity speed this week, and we were confirmed that Defense Tech Red is hot.
The most interesting startup stories from the week
This week, many startup stories were somehow in Y Combinator’s orbit. In addition, Israel once again lived up to its “Start-up Nation” reputation.
that was fast: No-Code website-beding platform Wix acquired 6 months of age, bootstapped vib-coding startup base 44-two-or-two Israeli companies-for $ 80 million in cash.
It was also fast: In just three months, the valuation of the ramp increased by $ 16 billion after its series E, when the expenses management startups made a secondary sale earlier this year when the expenses above $ 13 billion.
Friends and enemies: A new details were revealed on the deal of $ 14.3 billion of the meta to acquire 49% startup scale AI, including a possible dividend payment. We also learned that Scale was leaving AI as a data provider after the Openai deal.
Frenemies: The US Department of Defense honored OpenAI directly with a contract of up to $ 200 million, which could give more stress to startup relations with Microsoft.
ICMI: Of all the teams presented in YC’s recent spring 2025 Demo Day, there are 11 startups about which investors are talking about.
Did not happen: People are still talking about the police, which is shutting down the YC Demo Day after the party that the controversial AI startup tried to throw out by Calluli; Or as its CEO told Techcrunch, “The most famous party that has never happened.”
The most interesting VC and funding news this week
Most funding news was either operated by defense technology, AI, or both, but there were some surprises. In addition, a VC firm is making high targets for its next fund.
Good intuition: Applied intuition, software manufacturer for autonomous vehicles, secured the $ 600 million series F and tender offer at an evaluation of $ 15 billion.
fresh thyme: Munich -based Defense Tech Startup Helsing stopped investing € 600 million under the leadership of Spotif’s founder Daniel EK VC firm Prima Materia, which gave Helsing importance in € 12 billion.
New unicorn: The Israeli observability startup coralogics became a unicorn after increasing the $ 115 million series E, which will be used to double its headcount in India, where currently 100 employees are currently based.
Tapaja: Mach Industries, a 2 -year defense tech startup, confirmed that a $ 100 million funding was raised on an evaluation of $ 470 million led by Khosla Ventures and Bedrock.
Money flow: Aspora, a startup, formerly known as Vance and focused on the convenience of remittance from Indian migrants, shut down a $ 50 million series B at an evaluation of $ 500 million by sequor and Graloc.
change of heart: Sword Health, an AI-AI-powered digital health startup that began as a virtual physical therapy solution, closed at $ 4 billion on the evaluation of $ 4 billion in the funding round led to the return of the investor General Catelist. It pushed back its IPO plans to at least 2028.
multiplier effect: Multipleer holdings announced to raise $ 27.5 million in seeds and series A rounds, which was involved in the increasing trend of purchasing Legacy service businesses – in its case – in its case, accounting firms – and scale with AI.
Stock where you shop: Griffin, a startup whose app helps users to buy stocks from brands on which they shop on, such as Walmart, won $ 11 million in a series A round.
Out of Sweden: Polar, developers and AI-first raised a payment infrastructure platform for businesses, raised $ 10 million seed round led by Excel. Its CEO first co-established Tickal, which was acquired by Shopify in 2018.
Rapid: Global VC Endeavor Catalist is demanding to raise $ 300 million for its fifth fund. This will be the largest yet, as it seems to deepen its condition on rapidly growing startups in emerging markets.
last but not least
The chime is ready for an early investor, founder-VC-VC Alexa von Tobel Fintech 3.0. He said, “The next wave of innovation will not be from the superficial twicex, but the fundamental deep product from reinforcement – equipment meeting the needs of a changing economy and more diverse, digitally fulfills the native population,” he explained in an interview.
