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2 days ago

This AI matchmaking startup says it can find your 'soulmate' - but be prepared to spend $50K

Keeper uses layered AI to identify potential soulmates, promises to tell users when no soulmate match exists, and raised $4 million in pre-seed funding.
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1 month ago
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The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/28/2025

NYC startups Valthos ($30M), Wild Moose ($7M), and Etiq ($750K) secured funding rounds on 10/28/2025.
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1 month ago
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The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/29/2025

Syllo raised $30M and Arya Health raised $18.2M, underscoring venture investment in AI-driven legal tech and healthcare startups in NYC.
fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI's 'after-code' gap | TechCrunch

As AI accelerates code production, it is widening a bottleneck in the far larger "after-code" phase of software development - the testing, security checks, and deployment work that still consumes nearly 70% of engineering time. Harness's tools help automate this sprawling, error-prone layer, even as enterprises grapple with rising AI code volume and the risks of shipping even a single line of faulty software into production systems.
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fromAlleywatch
4 weeks ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 11/13/2025

NYC startups raised early-stage funding: Datum Cloud $10M, Incentiv $1M, and RealReports $1M, increasing reported equity totals for each company.
New York City
fromAlleywatch
1 month ago

#NYCtech Week in Review: 10/26/25 - 11/1/25

Multiple NYC startups secured venture funding this week, including Syllo ($30M), Valthos ($30M), Arya Health ($18.2M), The Snow League ($13.5M), and SimplyWise ($12M).
Venture
fromAlleywatch
3 days ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 12/9/2025

Parallel Learning raised $20M Series B for K-12 teletherapy; Bags raised $2.75M to expand an AI financial management platform for small businesses.
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers | TechCrunch

Aircraft startup Boom Supersonic said Tuesday it will start selling a version of its turbine engine as a stationary power plant, and that its first customer will be data center startup Crusoe. Crusoe will buy 29 of Boom's 42-megawatt turbines for $1.25 billion to generate 1.21 gigawatts for its data centers. Boom said it will announce more details about a turbine factory next year, with first deliveries occurring in 2027.
Startup companies
fromFortune
4 days ago

Slack Starts $80 Million App Investment Fund | Fortune

Since Slack's launch in early 2013, the company has raised more than $320 million in funding-its $160 million round in April boosted the San Francisco company's private valuation to nearly $3 billion. The workplace messaging software has amassed 2 million daily active users since the service officially launched in February 2014-that's almost double the tally from six months ago. And many Slack users stay connected to the service an average of 10 hours daily, Underwood said.
Venture
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
4 days ago

Unconventional AI scores $475M to tackle AI's energy problem

Unconventional AI aims to build nature-inspired neuromorphic chips to drastically reduce AI energy use and scale inference efficiency.
Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund SkildAI at $14B, nearly tripling its value | TechCrunch

Skild AI is pursuing a funding round led by SoftBank and Nvidia to raise over $1 billion at a $14 billion valuation for its robot-agnostic foundation model.
Startup companies
fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 days ago

AI computer startup hits $4.5 billion valuation in seed round

Unconventional AI raised $475 million at a $4.5 billion valuation to build a more energy-efficient, biologically inspired computer architecture for AI.
#ai
Real estate
fromwww.housingwire.com
1 week ago

Ridley raises $64M to expand real estate platform

Ridley is building a consumer-led, lower-cost real estate marketplace offering buy-side access to private and public listings, predictive analytics, and reduced fees.
Startup companies
fromThe Drum
1 week ago

Facebook and Seedrs host 'The Big App' event in London to find Europe's best mobile app developers

Facebook and Seedrs launched an eleven-week European competition to discover top mobile app developers and award a crowdsourced £350,000 fund to winners.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Three best friends built an AI startup - and have a pact to drink one beer if it all collapses

"The day the company collapses is the day we drink that beer," Ondracek said.
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fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Exclusive: Gravis Robotics raises $23M to bring AI autonomy to construction sites | Fortune

Gravis Robotics raised $23 million to scale autonomous construction machines and expand in the U.K., U.S., and EU to address operator shortages.
Startup companies
fromresund Startups
2 weeks ago

Noahs Secures 1.9M to Revolutionize Convenience Retail with Digital Food Hubs

Noahs raised €1.9M to scale its plug-and-play platform converting convenience locations into multi-brand digital food hubs, targeting 10,000 locations by 2030.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Southeast Asia's tech sector is in a slump-but one VC sees signs that 'things will work out quite well here in the long run' | Fortune

Countries like Indonesia and Vietnam have very low GDP per capita, which means the willingness to buy your product or service is still extremely challenging [and low],
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Fundraising
fromAxios
3 weeks ago

Agentio raises $40M for creator ads

Major advertisers are shifting ad spend into creator-driven social campaigns; Agentio automates creator-brand ads and raised $56M, valued at $340M.
Fundraising
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Ramp hits $32B valuation, just three months after hitting $22.5B | TechCrunch

Ramp's valuation surged from $13B to $32B in 2025 after raising multiple funding rounds, totaling $2.3B, driven by expense management fintech growth.
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus

Jeff Bezos is getting a new job. He'll reportedly become co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new startup that he's partly funding. The company's exact plans are still unknown, but its focus is on AI that could improve manufacturing in fields including computing, automobiles, and aerospace. The New York Times reports that Project Prometheus is already one of the better funded early-stage start-ups in the world, with $6.2 billion in investment, in part from Bezos himself.
Venture
Tech industry
fromABA Journal
1 month ago

Clio completes $1B acquisition of vLex and announces $5B company valuation

Clio acquired vLex for $1 billion and raised $500 million, securing a $5 billion valuation and expanding an AI-driven legal intelligence platform.
Bicycling
fromBikeMag
4 weeks ago

One Company Secures $60M to Power the Next Wave of 3D-Printed Bike Components

Carbon raised $60 million to scale production, materials, and next-generation 3D-printing systems for lattice-structured bike saddles, grips, and engineered components.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia | TechCrunch

WisdomAI, the new AI data analytics startup from Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar, has landed a fresh $50 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from new investor NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm). This round comes roughly six months after the startup announced a seed round of $23 million led by Coatue. WisdomAI offers AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even "dirty" data, meaning data that hasn't been cleaned of typos or errors.
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1 month ago
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Clio Completes Historic $1 Billion vLex Acquisition, Announces $500 Million Series G at $5 Billion Valuation, Plus Exclusive Interview with CEO and CFO

fromLawSites
2 months ago
Venture

Filevine Raises $400M in Two-Round Funding to Scale AI-Powered Legal Platform; I Speak with Its CEO

fromLawSites
1 month ago
Fundraising

Clio Completes Historic $1 Billion vLex Acquisition, Announces $500 Million Series G at $5 Billion Valuation, Plus Exclusive Interview with CEO and CFO

fromLawSites
2 months ago
Venture

Filevine Raises $400M in Two-Round Funding to Scale AI-Powered Legal Platform; I Speak with Its CEO

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fromFortune
1 month ago

DeFi founder who graduated Harvard at 18 raises $68 million for crypto trading protocol Lighter | Fortune

Lighter is a decentralized exchange and blockchain enabling perpetual futures and soon spot trading, raising $68 million and attracting major investors at $1.5 billion valuation.
Science
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

A Sperm Racing Startup Raised $10 Million This Year

Sperm racing exists as a competitive spectacle in 2025 and a business venture, raising funding, selling fertility supplements, and prompting ethical and scientific skepticism.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 month ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 11/5/2025

Multiple NYC startups closed funding on 11/5/2025, including Teleskope ($25M Series A), AUI ($20M venture), Synonym ($18.4M), Parable ($16.5M), and iVerify ($12.3M).
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fromBitcoin Magazine
1 month ago

What If Your Bitcoin Could Unlock Instant Cash At Just 5%-Without Selling A Satoshi?

Lava raised $200M and launched a bitcoin-backed revolving line of credit (BLOC) offering flexible collateralized borrowing with bitcoin and low starting interest rates.
Startup companies
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

The cofounder of the AI 'cheating' app Cluely says engineers can't make viral content and that's why their startups flop

Most startups fail because they can't get seen; distribution and bold, attention-grabbing content are essential for growth.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Nvidia is reportedly investing up to $1B in Poolside | TechCrunch

Semiconductor giant Nvidia is looking to invest at least $500 million, and up to $1 billion, in Poolside, which builds AI models for software development, according to reporting from Bloomberg, which cited sources. This investment would be part of a $2 billion funding round Poolside is raising at a $12 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. Nvidia's investment could rise to $1 billion if the company successfully completes the rest of the funding round, Bloomberg reported.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Nvidia backs $6 billion battery recycling giant in bid to power the AI boom

Redwood Materials raised $350 million, valuing the company above $6 billion while scaling US-made battery energy storage to power AI data centers and stabilize the grid.
Environment
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Exclusive: One startup's quest to store electricity in the ocean | TechCrunch

Sizable Energy is developing sea-based pumped-storage using sealed flexible reservoirs and salty water to provide large-scale grid energy storage where topography prevents traditional pumped hydro.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

European AI rising star Nexos.ai raises $30M to unlock enterprise AI adoption | TechCrunch

Nexos.ai raised €30M to provide a neutral intermediary platform that secures corporate data between employees and LLMs while preserving AI-driven productivity.
Venture
fromFortune Crypto
1 month ago

Exclusive: Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo raises $500 million round led by Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital and Greenoaks | Fortune Crypto

Tempo raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation to build a Stripe- and Paradigm-backed payments blockchain focused on dollar stablecoins.
Agriculture
fromFood & Beverage Magazine
1 month ago

Grow-NY Summit to Award $3 Million to Global Startups Redefining Food, Agriculture and Sustainability - Food & Beverage Magazine

Grow-NY awards $3 million at the November 12-13, 2025 Food & Ag Summit to accelerate sustainable, transparent, and innovative food and agriculture startups.
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

Fuuse raises 6m as EV charge point platform powers toward profitability

Electric vehicle charging software company Fuuse has raised a further £6 million from its existing investors, Par Equity and YFM Equity Partners, as it accelerates growth and moves closer to profitability. The Lancaster-based platform - which provides EV charge point management software and services - said the follow-on investment came at an increased valuation after the company more than doubled its recurring revenues since its previous funding round.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
2 months ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/9/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/9/2025 featuring funding details for Class 3 Technologies and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Class 3 Technologies - $2M CLIMATE TECH Class 3 Technologies, a platform that helps large property owners and institutions protect their organizations from climate-driven disasters with its simulation engine, has raised $2M in funding according to a recent SEC filing.
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Startup companies
fromFortune
2 months ago

HavocAI raises $85M to sell autonomous boats to the U.S. military | Fortune

HavocAI raised $85M to scale rapid manufacturing of autonomous boats to compete for $3.3B in Defense Department unmanned surface vessel funding.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere | TechCrunch

Base Power raised $1 billion at a $3 billion valuation to expand its large-capacity home battery leasing business and grid electricity services beyond Texas.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
2 months ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 9/29/2025

Multiple NYC startups raised new funding: Valence $50M Series B, Neura Health $11.4M Series A, Doorstep AI $8M Seed.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Bezos says AI spending boom is a bubble that will pay off

When people get very excited, as they are today about artificial intelligence for example, is every experiment gets funded, every company gets funded, the good ideas and the bad ideas, Bezos said, pointing to companies getting billions of dollars of funding before they have a product. Investors have a hard time in the middle of this excitement distinguishing between the good ideas and the bad ideas.
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fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup | TechCrunch

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company's assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle. The news was first reported by Wired, which cited an email sent to Sunshine's shareholders. Dazzle is setting out to build an AI personal assistant, the report cited anonymous sources as saying, and added that all of Sunshine's employees will move to the new company.
Startup companies
fromAlleywatch
2 months ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 9/23/2025

Capital Rx | Judi Health - $252M Series F HEALTHTECH Capital Rx, a full-service pharmacy and health benefits management platform, has raised $252M in Series F funding led by Wellington Management and General Catalyst. Founded by AJ Loiacono, Joseph Alexander, and Ryan Kelly in 2017, Capital Rx has now raised a total of $601M in reported equity funding. The company also announced it is rebranding itself to Judi Health.
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fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

Willo raises 3M to launch 'blue tick' verification for job candidates amid AI hiring surge

Willo raised £3 million to launch Willo Verified Profiles, an automated 'blue tick' credential verification product to combat AI-generated job application fraud.
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

Crypto entrepreneur raises 750m for Britain's biggest AI data centre

I'll go on record as to say I'm the best thing that's ever happened to him,
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
2 months ago

This company is turning empty offices across America into farms

Area 2 Farms is a three-year-old company based in Arlington, Virginia, that's taking the concept of indoor farming to unusual spaces. Its first farm, in Arlington, grows dozens of varieties of crops in a low-slung brick building tucked between a dog day care and a car repair shop. With a new infusion of venture capital, the company is planning to expand, and it's looking to empty office buildings as potential future farms.
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Startup companies
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Intercom cofounder says TikTok and 'The Social Network' led some founders to start companies for the wrong reasons

Founders have become fashionable lifestyle figures, tempting some to launch startups for follower-driven image instead of genuine ambition.
fromAlleywatch
2 months ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 9/24/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 9/24/2025 featuring funding details for Syllo, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Syllo - $5.75M Syllo, an AI-powered litigation workspace for attorneys, has raised $5.75M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the round comes from two investors. Founded by Jeffrey Chivers and Theodore Rostow in 2019, Syllo has now raised a total of $15.5M in reported equity funding.
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fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps | TechCrunch

Emergent, a company built by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, aims to become a similar platform for consumers when it comes to app creation. The platform allows non-technical users to create an app using prompts. While that's not a unique pitch in 2025, Emergent intends to aid users through the app development process, while also managing different APIs and deployment steps so they don't have to worry about various technicalities.
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fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Bay Area biotech company lays off half its workers a year after raising $325M

Arsenal Biosciences is cutting about half its workforce (≈100 employees) to extend its cash runway while shifting from early-stage research into clinical trials.
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fromSilicon Valley Journals
2 months ago

Upscale AI Launches with Over $100 Million Seed Round

Upscale AI launches open‑standard, full‑stack ultra‑low-latency networking and silicon solutions to enable scalable, interoperable AI compute and accelerate AI democratization.
E-Commerce
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

Yaso raises 8m to expand beyond beauty with new products in China

Yaso raised over £8 million to expand from UK beauty into supplements, fashion and food, integrating British brands into Chinese social-commerce platforms.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Live-in offices, air mattresses, and stacks of ramen: Inside the apartments of 6 young tech founders

Many well-funded young tech founders live frugally, sleeping in offices or on minimal furnishings while prioritizing work routines over home comfort.
Startup companies
fromAlleywatch
2 months ago

EliseAI Raises $250M to Scale AI Automation Across Healthcare and Housing

EliseAI uses vertical AI workflows to automate healthcare and rental housing operations, cutting administrative costs, eliminating patient wait times, and boosting revenue.
Information security
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

A new Israeli cybersecurity startup just emerged from stealth and is already valued at $400 million.

Vega raised $65 million at a $400 million valuation to compete in cybersecurity, backed by Accel and other VCs, led by Unit 8200 founders.
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fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Rodatherm Energy wants to make geothermal more efficient, but will it be cheaper? | TechCrunch

Rodatherm raised 38 million to pilot closed-loop, refrigerant-filled steel boreholes for geothermal power, claiming 50% greater efficiency while competing with established firms.
Startup companies
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months ago

Space startup Apex raises $200 million, reaches unicorn status

Apex raised $200 million and became a unicorn to scale satellite-bus manufacturing and pursue vertical integration to meet rising constellation demand.
Venture
fromAlleywatch
3 months ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 9/10/2025

Several NYC startups secured new funding on 9/10/2025, including Highbeam ($30M Series A), Octane ($24.5M), and LEA ($1.25M venture).
Business
fromFast Company
3 months ago

Best Workplaces for Innovators 2025: Large companies

Large companies with 1,000+ employees foster innovation through AI adoption, internal incubators, venture funds, employee-driven events, education, and leadership development.
fromAxios
3 months ago

Exclusive: ProRata.ai raises $40M and launches new search tool

Zoom in: ProRata.ai's product, Gist Answers, lets publishers embed custom AI search on their websites. Publishers can show AI-powered summaries and recommendations exclusively based off their own content or showcase content from ProRata.ai's broader network of 750 publishers. "It's absolutely free to all the websites, and it's actually profit-making, small profit, but profit-making," Gross tells Axios. "Our whole goal is to get this ethical search distributed as far and wide as possible."
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fromFortune
3 months ago

Forget vapes: Nicotine pouch startup Sesh raises $40 million from 8VC, Post Malone, and Diplo to take on Zyn

After vapes staved off the extinction of tobacco, a new generation of nicotine products is promising a safer, albeit no less addictive, form of consumption through tobacco-free pouches made popular by the likes of Zyn and Velo. Now, a celebrity-backed upstart called Sesh is trying to challenge those incumbents. Buoyed by $40 million in venture funding from Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale's 8VC, along with music stars Diplo and Post Malone,
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Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

Forget the marketing playbook. The CEO behind the AI tool Cursor says 2 things made it the go-to for coders.

Cursor's growth resulted primarily from intense product focus ('monk mode') and organic word-of-mouth adoption after an initial social-media push.
fromMedCity News
3 months ago

4 Notable Health Tech Funding Announcements in August - MedCity News

EliseAI Raises $250M in Series E funding New York City-based EliseAI is focused on automating systems in healthcare and housing. For healthcare, it offers a platform that automates conversations with patients over voice, email, text and chat. It also helps schedule appointments with doctors, and sends alerts about billing and payment. Its Series E round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and included participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital.
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fromFortune Crypto
3 months ago

Exclusive: Etherealize raises $40 million to expand Wall Street's use of Ethereum

Etherealize raised $40 million to build Ethereum-based products and infrastructure for onboarding Wall Street financial institutions to crypto.
Intellectual property law
fromFortune
3 months ago

Former Trump officials: Strong intellectual property protections are crucial to America's national security

Failure to protect intellectual property rights will undermine innovation and defense-critical R&D, threatening national security.
fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Nvidia, Google, and Bill Gates help Commonwealth Fusion Systems raise $863M | TechCrunch

As advances in computing and AI have quickened the pace of research and development, the sector has become a hotbed of startup and investor activity. Inside a fusion reaction, atoms are compressed and heated until they form a fourth state of matter known as plasma. When the plasma reaches the right temperature and pressure, those atoms begin to fuse, releasing tremendous amounts of energy in the process.
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fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains | TechCrunch

FieldAI raised $405M to develop physics-rooted, general-purpose embodied AI 'robot brains' that enable robots to safely learn, adapt, and manage risk across diverse platforms and environments.
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fromTechCrunch
5 months ago

Road to Battlefield: Central Eurasia's Gateway to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield | TechCrunch

Central Eurasia launches 'Road to Battlefield' for direct access to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, featuring competitions across nine countries.
Venture
fromTNW | Ecosystems
5 months ago

Switzerland leads the world in deep tech investment, report finds

Swiss venture funding in deep tech reaches 60%, emphasizing the nation's lead in cutting-edge scientific ventures.
AI startups are driving the majority of deep tech investments in Switzerland, reflecting a significant shift in focus.
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