Welcome to Startup Weekly: your weekly summary of everything that cannot be lost from the world of new companies. Why is it on your entrance tray every Friday? Register here.
Startup News this week was quite routine in a good way: apart from a minor kerfuffle between and combator and Google, there was no holder acceleration drama. Only constant progress and businesses as usual.
More interesting starting stories of the week
With opi plans, acquisitions and new releases, this week sacrifices genuine reasons for optimism and optimism. But don’t get carried away either: we are not ready for Therans 2.0.
Interest movie: Digital Consumer Bank Chime publicly requested an OPI this week. Among other numbers, the paperwork revealed that it paid around $ 33 million to the Dallas Mavericks as part of their marketing efforts.
Neon lightsDatabricks plans to spend about $ 1 billion to acquire Neon, a startup that builds an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgre, hoping that their combined sacrifices allow customers to more efficiently deploy ougies).
Catching the worm: Savings Startups and Inversiones Acorns acquired Earlybird, an investment gift platform for families, for an unleashed amount. EarlyBird will close, and its co -founders will help build acorns early, the Smart Money application of the Startup for children.
Bridge gap: Autunary, the last startup that leaves the association of Porsche with Venture Studio Up.
Friend or enemy: Google launched its AI Futures Fund, a new initiative that seeks to invest in new AI companies that use the Deepmind tools. Also this week, and Combinator launched a letter accusing Google of being a “monopolist” that has “stunted” the EE. UU start ecosystem.
Dual use: The British vertical startup Aerospace is working on a hybrid-electric evtol plane that would capitalize on its position as the only European player in space, among the growing demand for local defense solutions.
Are you kidding? According to reports, Elizabeth Holmes partner Billy Evans is trying to raise $ 50 million in funds for a new blood test startup with a launch that resembles Theranos. ”
VC news and more interesting financing this week
AI was once again a recurring theme in the releases of new companies that announced rounds this week, but these companies focus on a wide range of sectors and problems. In addition, there are new funds for Fintech and new companies based in New York.
Granted: The insurtech startup gave a D $ 120 million series, which includes $ 75 million in primary investments, to launch new products and subscription capabilities.
Moving: Tensorwave, based in Las Vegas, raised a financing round of $ 100 million directed by Magnetar and AMD Ventures for its data center infrastructure, which is based mainly on AMD hardware.
A step ahead: Sprinter Health, a company that offers preventive health services in the home, such as blood raffles, raised a B series round of $ 55 million directed by Catalyst General.
Pan -African: The Egyptian startup Nawy, the largest proptech platform in Africa, said a $ 52 million series a led by partch Africa and $ 23 million in debt financing to support its Mena expansion. Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the EAU are their next markets.
Breakfast Club: The rapidly growing AI granola notes platform raised a B series of $ 43 million at an assessment of $ 250 million and launched a collaboration function for equipment.
Fusion in a bottle: The spin -off fusion of the University of Wisconsin OBWET $ 36 million in fresh funds, which plans to use to finish the design of its Yunque prototype reactor.
Babies who speak: Hedra, a company that helps artists produce podcasts with speakers generated by AI, locked in $ 32 million A16z.
Fashionable: Doji, a startup that hopes to test virtual and social equipment, obtained a round of $ 14 million seeds directed by Thrive Capital that will use to improve its Ayes of AI.
Bigger apple: VC VC signing centered on New York Blay Bench raised $ 160 million for its fourth fund, which will support the founders of the seed stage that builds business software.
Foolishness: The co -founder and CEO of Mercury, Immad Akhund, launched a fund of $ 26 million to support the new companies of early stages more formally than as an Ángel investor. The Fintech company was last valued at $ 3.5 billion in a March financing round.
Last but not least
The CIA officer turned into the investor Eric Sleesinger can be the only American VC that invests exclusively in European defense technology. In a recent episode of the Podcast Strictlyvc Download, he told TechCrunch about the possibly witnessing movement that led him to find 201 companies.