Sometimes problems are simply: problems. But they are also often feed. This week, he brought us a mixture of startups, before which adversity faces, sometimes his own, and others that bloom.
The most interesting stories of startups from the week
Some startups collected revenues and contracts; Others collected lawsuits.
Swimming: FINTECH startup ramp over the annual revenues up to 700 million dollars. In the last sales of the secondary campaign, it almost doubled its valuation to $ 13 billion.
Bang a gong: Startup forecasting of Gong revenues exceeded $ 300 million annual revenues, putting AI on the path of a potential public offer.
Mach speed: Mach Industries, a startup of defense technology supported by Sequoia, concluded a contract with the American army and has plans for his first factory, said 21-year-old founder Ethan Thornton.
Boomerang: After years of controversy, including the currently spotted legal battle, Ryan Breslow is once again the general director of Bolt, he founded a fintech company, which was once valued at $ 11 billion.
One process: Passes, a direct coinization platform for creators, which collected a series A in the amount of $ 40 million run by Bond Capital in 2024, was sued for the alleged distribution of materials about the sexual abuse of youngsters.
Another lawsuit: According to a federal criminal criticism, one member of the FINTECH -friendly management board will admit to fraud in the brings, and one co -founder was arrested for alleged plotting for investors.
The most interesting VC messages and financing this week
This week, several startups announced large rounds – as usual in artificial intelligence, but also in various categories that help others move in a hairy situation.
Ai Maker: Anthropic collected the E $ 3.5 billion series run by LightSpeed Venture Partners with a valuation price $ 61.5 billion.
You have a partner: Turing, which contributes to the construction of LLM, collected the E series in the amount of $ 111 million led by the sovereign Malaysia Fund Khazanah Nephhazal Berhad with a valuation of $ 2.2 billion.
HR competition: Indian HR Darwinbox HR collected $ 140 million to extend the international arena and challenge competitors akin to DEEL.
Counterattack: Startup of the defense technology in the USA collected a series D price $ 250 million to counteract drones. Alpine Eagle based in Germany secured about $ 10.96 million of financing for its air solution of the same problem.
Avoiding variability: Startup grain based in Tel Aviv emerged with Stealth with $ 50 million financing to help corporations protect themselves against FX variability.
Running tariffs: Thanks to the cross -border trading barriers in the attention center, the exchange raised $ 40 million for the construction of tools that help sellers cope with tariffs and other obstacles.
Avoiding chemistry: Ataraxis AI based in the New York start-up collected a series A in the amount of $ 20.4 million to predict the results of the cancer of individual patients and whether chemistry may be avoided.
Larger fund: Thirty-year-old Foundation Capital, an early supporter of Solana and Cerebras, collected the eleventh flagship fund in the amount of $ 600 million-20% greater than its predecessor.
No less essential
Ed Zitron, the host of the Better Offline podcast, has no patience at all costs and what he calls “rot of rot”, but do not confuse this with technological hatred. In the recent episode of Podcast Equity argued that there is a possibility for the startups to be higher than large technology in putting users first.