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BREAKING 🚨 Archera raises $15M Series C led by Pivot Investment Partners, with HighSage Ventures, to grow go-to-market and its partner network across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Japan and Latin America

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TRENDING 📈 @bipulsinha says "the cyber tsunami isn't a future prediction. It's here already," pointing to the exposure from vulnerabilities in the PHP engine as proof that all code is buggy

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BREAKING 🚨 @luxor raises a $16M strategic round led by @CMT_Digital, with Canaan, MicroBT, Halo and Steelhead, to scale its agentic cloud platform, AI hardware business and compute derivatives trading

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TRENDING 📈 @AlexTamkin shares new @AnthropicAI research on how AI agents shape experts' judgment calls, testing in a randomized trial with 50 professional data analysts whether experts still make the key decisions

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BREAKING 🚨 Circuit Mind raises $25M, an $18.5M Series A led by Norwest plus a seed led by Third Prime, with Differential, Blackhorn and Lightscape VC, to cover the full electronics design lifecycle and open a U.S. headquarters

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TRENDING 📈 @ataiiam introduces OpenDuet, self-hostable proactive AI agents that work with any agent harness, with human-in-the-loop approvals and computer use, built on @CopilotKit and AG-UI

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BREAKING 🚨 @numeracleinc raises $28M from Edison Partners to hire, expand internationally and take its business verification beyond phone calls to messaging, chat apps, marketplaces and AI agents

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TRENDING 📈 @demishassabis shares Genie 4, @GoogleDeepMind's interactive world model that brings together real-time physics, reasoning and audio: "Simulations within simulations, makes you wonder just how deep the rabbit hole goes"

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BREAKING 🚨 @verahealthai raises $28.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures, with Mantis VC, @svangel, @ycombinator and @GradientVC, to take its clinical search engine into more healthcare markets

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Your phone has years of context about you. Yet most new apps still start from zero. Where you go. What you eat. What you wear. How your interests change over time. @mwahjiwoo and @noramxiao saw an opportunity in all that information sitting in people's camera rolls. So they built @tryrollup An SDK that turns camera rolls into user context, helping apps understand users without starting from scratch Photos stay on the phone, while apps gain insights into users' interests, habits, and preferences For example, screenshot six bomber jackets from different brands, and a shopping app could recognize what you're looking for without asking. But the real breakthrough came when other founders started asking to buy the technology powering Rollup's original shopping app. So J and Nora pivoted from building an app to selling the underlying SDK. Just nine days later, were at six figures in contracted ARR and seven figures in pipeline revenue. Some customers even skipped the free trial and asked to pay immediately. Their vision? A future where every consumer app becomes a personal AI, powered by a deeper understanding of its users. They started by building one personalized shopping app. Now they're building the technology that could make every consumer app personal. 🎙️‍ @noramxiao & @mwahjiwoo, Co-Founders, @tryrollup, with Guest Host: @MaanavA51108, CEO & Co-Founder, @trymemoir_ai on Fondo @thestartpod 01:08 Meet Rollup Co-Founders J Yim and Nora Xiao 02:13 Turning camera rolls into personal context 03:17 From shopping app to SDK 04:22 Unlocking the value of personal photos 05:11 Identifying moments, trends, and shopping intent 06:18 Six figures in contracted ARR after nine days 07:14 Finding product-market fit 08:16 The strategy behind Rollup's pivot 09:12 Building a strong co-founder relationship 10:21 What inspired J and Nora to become entrepreneurs 12:14 The future of personal AI 13:19 Expanding beyond photos 14:08 Privacy, on-device AI, and user trust

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TRENDING 📈 @Yuchenj_UW calls it "the real 1-person billion-dollar company," quoting @AnthropicAI's update on its drug discovery work: "A solo smart, high-agency CEO + AI can have an outsized impact on the world"

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BREAKING 🚨 @infisical raises $40M Series B at a $600M valuation led by @eladgil, with @GradientVC and @ycombinator, to build security infrastructure for AI agents and grow its engineering and go-to-market teams

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BREAKING 🚨 @hexanalytics raises $100M at a $1.2B valuation, co-led by @peakxvpartners and @137ventures, with @AmplifyPartners, @a16z, @Redpoint and @sequoia, to scale its team and go-to-market for its AI analytics platform