Venture Capital

Venture Capital (VC) News

• Etched.ai, an AI chip startup focused on specialized chips for model inference, raised a $300M round at a $10.3B valuation led by Sequoia TechCrunch

• Underdog, a fantasy sports platform, raised a $35M Series B at a $485M valuation led by BlackRock and Acies Investment PR Newswire

• Wellumio, a provider of a portable brain imaging solution for point-of-care stroke detection, raised a $9.75M pre-Series A led by Nuance Connected Capital FinSMEs

• Assured, a healthcare technology company, raised a $19M Series A led by Insight Partners The Saas News

• telli, a German startup building AI agents for customer-facing operations, raised a $15M seed round led by redalpine Vestbee

• Phoenix Lab (Cheiron), an AI drug discovery startup, raised an $8M seed round led by Menlo Ventures CityBiz

• European AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise funds from Samsung at a $23B valuation Reuters