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It can be said that the aftermath of Deepseek was the largest technical story per week, especially for anyone who is closely monitoring public markets. But private companies, too, topped the headlines.
The most interesting startup stories of the week
In the startup lands, even small profit is worth publishing and can lead to the subscriptions tomorrow’s subscriptions. Meanwhile, we look at integration and purchases and some startups that depend on the task that fights fire.
RetreatThe Voi company, which participated in the Swedish Micromobity Startup in its first profitable year. Although the results of 2024 are modestly positive, the results of 2024 put the motorcycle and electronic bicycle company in a better position to explore the public subscription in the coming years.
IncorporationRobotics Norwegian Robotics, backed by Openai, obtained Kindoid Kind, whose team started from three people working with prominent designer Yves Bihar in 2024.
On the right trackAlan Startup French Insurance revealed that it had achieved nearly $ 525 million of revenues in 2024 and confirmed its goal to reach profitability by 2026.
Firefighters: In the wake of the recent destroyed fires in southern California, Tim de Reicht of Techcrunch has introduced startups that help measuring and relieving fire risk.
The most interesting VC news and funding news this week
Some important tours have been announced this week, but perhaps more interesting, we have seen some increases in the large evaluation.
Hot like fusionHelion Nuclear Emerging Company has raised a funding round of the F 425 million dollar series to help build a microsoft integration reactor. This new round is smaller than the previous round, but the evaluation increased to $ 5.245 billion.
BergeBarcelona-based Travelerk has closed its headquarters at Travelerk a $ 200 million financing round of financing, with a value of $ 2.7 billion-nearly 1.4 billion dollars in its previous evaluation.
Quantum: With the financing of $ 104 million in financing from the B series B, the French company Alice & Bob got one of the largest rounds to start the quantum computing in Europe.
Amnesty International against CancerQUIBIM, a Spanish startup, has developed artificial intelligence models for medical imaging, a $ 50 million series of financing to double the expansion plans in the United States. Its pioneering product, QP-PROSTATE, focuses on the discovery of prostate cancer.
Autodesk ChallengeMotif, an emerging program for the development of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), received $ 46 million in seed and chain A to challenge the former employer of its founders, Autodesk, with a design platform from the next generation of buildings.
Back goalOrganizational deposit revealed that 8VC, Austin -based VC, led by the founder of Palantir Joe Lonsdale, hopes to raise about one billion dollars to its sixth fund. She closed its former pioneering car at $ 880 million in 2023.
Take it to 11: ElevenLABS, which works in the AI Audio field, has announced that it raised $ 180 million in the C tour, and the company’s evaluation of $ 3.3 billion after money. Andressen Horowitz and iconiq growth is a leading investment.
last but Not the least
I apologize for the completion of a negative note, but the data indicates that 2025 will be another brutal year of emerging publication. However, the CEO of Angelist Avlok Kohli gave a more positive look, noting that these numbers “are still very low for the number of companies that have been funded over the two years.”
