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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Uniquity Bio And Vercel Lead Another Huge Week

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The Irvine, California-based startup raised a $175 million round led by ICONIQ Growth this week, after locking up a $135 million round co-led by KKR and L Catterton at a $1 billion valuation last May. And earlier this month, AI cloud infrastructure startup CoreWeave locked up a $1.1 billion valuation. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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AI drug discovery platform Insilico Medicine announces $255 million in Series C funding

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Insilico Medicine is a Hong Kong-based company founded in 2014 around one central premise: that AI-assisted systems can identify novel drug targets for untreated diseases, assist in the development of new treatments and eventually predict how well those treatments may perform in clinical trials. in 2019, and bounced back to a measly 2.5%

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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape

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What a difference a few months makes. Here we are, not even six months later, and the vibe from the responses of our latest survey — this time of eight fintech investors — is a very different one. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know.

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The delivery market is coming down from its pandemic highs

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Within the span of a few months, Berlin-based instant grocery startup Flink secured $750 billion at a $2.85 Instacart, citing “market turbulence,” last month slashed its valuation by 40% and slowed hiring. DoorDash executed a $400 million stock buyback program in May.)

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

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In October, it was reported that Waverly Labs had acquired Abundant’s IP, meaning that its technology may still live on in some form. Chanje reportedly still owes “many” of its former employees months of back pay and promised bonuses, with at least four having filed suit against the startup. Chanje (2015-2021). Image Credits: Chanje.

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The Year’s 10 Biggest VC Funding Rounds: OpenAI, Stripe And Anthropic Top The List For Biggest Raises In 2023

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The deal followed a $1 billion investment in 2019 from Microsoft into the AI startup. tied) Juul , $1.3B, consumer goods: This one may come as a surprise to many. tied) Metropolis , $1.1B, computer vision: One may not expect to find a parking startup on this list, but here we are. Investors were not disclosed for the new round.

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Data Challenges are Killing AI Projects

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Today’s May 28, 2019, Wall Street Journal reports that data challenges are halting AI projects. This is supported by a report this month by Forrester Research Inc. This is not a criticism of IBM’s AI tools. Our AI tools would have the same problems if the data was not collected and curated properly.