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Business 6 min Temasek's Xora Led $53m Into Four-Month-Old Consultancy Hang Ten Hang Ten has raised $85m since May and employs about 25 people. The bet is that enterprise AI is now held back... DA Daniel Koh 17 Sep

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Business 6 min Positron Raised $875m to Build Inference Chips Around Laptop Memory The Asimov chip uses LPDDR5X instead of the high-bandwidth memory everyone is short of. The argument is that a... EV Eva Chin 14 Sep

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Business 6 min Legal AI's Harvey Is Worth 39 Times Its Revenue, and at Least It Has Revenue $550m at about $15.5bn, with ARR past $400m and 80 per cent of the top 100 law firms as customers. Most AI val... DA Daniel Koh 11 Sep

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Finance 6 min Forus Raised Less Money at Three Times the Price, Four Months Later A $150m Series C at $3bn follows a $160m Series B at about $1bn in May. The founders sold roughly five per cen... SA Sarah Chew 9 Sep

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Finance 6 min Mistral Raised €3 Billion. The Gigawatt by 2030 Is Not Funded Yet. Mistral's Series D is led by Samsung at a valuation above €21 billion, nearly double last year's. The money is... SA Sarah Chew 9 Sep

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Business 6 min Atoms Denies Building Robotaxis. It Confirms Uber May Use Its Technology for Ridesharing. The FT says Kalanick's company is building robotaxi tech; Atoms calls itself an industrial software business.... EV Eva Chin 8 Sep

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Statistics 7 min Only Four of 37 AI Infrastructure Rounds Went to New Companies Of 37 disclosed rounds, 33 went to companies that had raised before, at a median of $275m. The boom is in the... NA Nadia Rahim 4 Sep

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Privacy & Data 6 min A Question a Minute Across 225 Agencies Is Six Each Per Day The company says the tool answers a question every minute and that officers at 225 agencies rely on it daily.... PR Priya Nair 1 Sep

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Finance 6 min Pay-to-Play Is Not a Funding Round. It Is a Choice With a Penalty. Reported as a funding round, it is a mechanism: investors who decline to put in more money have their preferre... DA Daniel Koh 1 Sep

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Finance 7 min One Deal Was Two Thirds of Singapore's Fintech Funding This Half The report says investment moderated. Money fell by two thirds while global fintech funding rose 43 per cent,... DA Daniel Koh 31 Aug

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Cloud & Infra 7 min A Startup Worth $1.05bn Wants Data Centres to Turn Themselves Down Emerald AI raised US$150m to slow, pause or move compute when a utility needs demand cut, backed by Nvidia and... KE Kenji Tanaka 30 Aug

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Business 7 min a16z Raised $1.1bn for AI Hardware, Which Is Not the Buildout The Machine Age Fund marks a real reallocation by a firm built on software returns. It also amounts to about o... EV Eva Chin 29 Aug

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Business 9 min Anthropic's $65 Billion Is a Run Rate. The Prospectus Will Have to Say Something Else. Investors were told the annualised run rate reached US$65bn at the end of July, up from US$47bn in May and abo... EV Eva Chin 22 Aug

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Business 8 min A Ten-Week-Old Robotics Startup Just Raised Over US$90 Million Veeda AI, founded by Nvidia's former VP of AI research, is building world models so robots can learn in simula... EV Eva Chin 21 Aug

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ASEAN Tech 5 min Southeast Asia's Tech Funding More Than Doubled. Take Out One Data-Centre Company and It Shrank The region raised $7.4 billion in the first half, against $3.2 billion a year earlier. One Singapore data-cent... SA Sarah Chew 1 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min Cognition raises US$1 billion at a US$26 billion valuation as Devin clears US$492 million in revenue The maker of the AI software engineer Devin has raised US$1 billion, valuing the company at US$26 billion afte... AI AI Tools Desk 2 Jun

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Finance 5 min Anthropic Is Closing a $30 Billion Round at a $900 Billion Valuation — Past OpenAI Anthropic is set to close a funding round of more than $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion — enough... DA Daniel Koh 30 May