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Many startups have a large number of decisions to make and each one has the chance to affect their trajectory significantly. As a result, some will often rush what might initially be seen as the simplest decision: who to bank with. Yet Rob Burnett, Director of Startup Banking, Grasshopper Bank told FinextraTV in this interview that it might be worth spending longer considering a banking partner. T…
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Nico Rosberg, founder and CEO of Rosberg Ventures, says the “talent is there” in Europe, but it lacks capital and funding is “not quite the same” as in the United States.
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Elon Musk founded xAI in July 2023 with a 12-person staff. In just under a year and a half, the company has been valued at a reported $50 billion.
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VC investment in European startups is projected to decline for a third straight year, according to Atomico but there are signs things are finally stabilizing.
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German aerospace startup Lilium faces insolvency if it doesn’t raise emergency funding from the state government for the southeastern state of Bavaria.
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Venture capital firm Accel says that funding for cloud startups is set to rise 27% in 2024 thanks to a boost from AI the first year of growth in three years.
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Airloom Energy Inc. received $13.75 million in financing to build a pilot in Wyoming to test its technology, the company announced Tuesday.
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43North is a Buffalo-based startup competition that offers $5 million in annual prizes to innovative companies.
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Emerson Collective has participated in AI funding rounds totaling more than $1 billion, according to data provided exclusively to CNBC by Fintrx.
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Distance Technologies, a Helsinki-based mixed-reality startup, raised 10 million euros of funding in a round led by GV, the venture capital arm of Alphabet.