In Brief Posted: 12:40 PM PST · December 23, 2025 Enterprise software company ServiceNow agreed to acquire nine-year-old cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion in…
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Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green |
The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After spending the last six years running Sunshine,…
Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks |
In Brief Posted: 1:10 PM PST · December 22, 2025 Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy…
Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal |
In Brief Posted: 1:51 PM PST · December 19, 2025 AI coding assistant Cursor announced that it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses AI…
Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors |
Caroline Merin, who spent nearly a decade developing on-demand services as the first Latin American general manager for Uber Eats and later the COO of…
Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital |
In Brief Posted: 12:32 PM PST · December 15, 2025 After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns…
SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund Skild AI at $14B, nearly tripling its value |
In Brief Posted: 2:30 PM PST · December 8, 2025 SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to lead an investment of over $1 billion…
Sources: AI synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A at a $1B 'headline' valuation |
3:38 PM PST · December 5, 2025 Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a…
Bret Taylor's Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years |
Sierra, a 21-month-old, San Francisco-based startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, announced on Friday that it reached $100 million in annual revenue…