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From obtaining thorny startups to large companies, and from a series of financing to the tours of the G series, buyers and investors who made a crowded news course.

startup-stories-from-the-week">The most interesting startup stories of the week

This week should look like the perfect time for companies to announce the latest startups.

Closed: CELLEBRITE obtained the Israeli phone CELLEBRITE, which obtained the start of Corelium mobile, for $ 170 million in cash, with a transfer of $ 20 million to property rights to close.

He sought and found: IBM Seeing Ai, an Amnesty International platform that allows users to ask questions about the institution’s data using the natural language. Its technology is scheduled to become a major part of Watsonx Ai Labs, AI NYC, the new in New York City.

Access to data: Collbra has acquired a data governance platform, a startup that raised $ 4 million so far to help companies manage employees and customers who can access internal data. Collebra and Raito are located in Brussels.

Challenger: Amd acquired BRIUM, an emerging ghost company that focuses on improving artificial intelligence programs, in a deal that seems to be aimed at challenging the dominance of AI devices in NVIDIA.

crunchy: Snowflake has revealed that it plans to purchase crunchy data, a startup that helps companies build with postgres. The cloud data platform company refused to comment on the evaluation of the deal, but the source estimated it by about $ 250 million.

No more pesto: Record the startup that calls the AI ​​data behind Pesto AI, which is closed after collecting more than $ 8 million to help companies recruit developers remotely.

HmmmARTIME, the start of the video starting from the founder of Evernote Phil Libin, recorded dozens of employees, who will not be invited to stay in the next “season”. The company, previously known as MMHMM, has raised nearly $ 135 million in financing the project through several rounds in the early stages.

Och: Keranabro confirmed the Indian grocery grocery that it was penetrated last May. All her data was erased in the attack.

The legal battle continuesHR Tech Startup Deel has accused its opponent of employing an employee who spent six months in impersonating a client, but also issued a modified complaint about the accusations of spying companies against Deel.

The most interesting VC news and funding news this week

Money flew again this week, but some financing also went to startups that hope to challenge market leaders, expand internationally, and make roads safer.

Lucky Luckey: Defense Tech Startup Anduril raised a giant tour of $ 2.5 billion, including a billion dollars investment from the Founders Fund, doubling the company’s evaluation to $ 30.5 billion in this process.

Movement of the indicator: Anysphere, an artificial intelligence coding index, raised 900 million dollars, rating 9.9 billion dollars. The sources said that the company exceeded $ 500 million of repeated annual revenues.

Brain chips: Neuralink, the start of the ELON Musk computer interface, starts a $ 650 million chain, which was mentioned in pre -money evaluation of about $ 9 billion.

insured: Bolttech, an Insurtech company in Singapore, has completed integrated insurance, a degree of $ 147 million with a rating of $ 2.1 billion.

APUS versus graphics processing units: Speedata, an Israeli chip company that competes with NVIDIA, raised a series of $ 44 million b. The company is developing the APU analysis unit to accelerate AI’s work burdens and data burdens, which will be shown later this month.

From Ireland to Japan: The Irish NOMUPAC company is secured in the C series of $ 40 million from SB Payment Service (SBPS), a subsidiary of Telco Giant Giant Softbank Corp. The capital will be used to expand its access in the main areas, including Asia, as well as on the conditions.

Carefully driving: OBVIO, an emerging company using artificial intelligence and cameras installed on stopping signs to detect unscrupulous driving, raised a 22 million dollar series led by Bain Capital Ventures.

The richest chip: Between February and May this year, startups in North America attracted $ 69.7 billion of investment capital through 1,528 transactions, which exceeds 6.4 billion dollars (742 transactions) and 3 billion dollars (515 transactions), according to Pitchbook data.

Last but not least

Elad Gil began investing in emerging companies from artificial intelligence such as confusion and Harvey before most VCS recognized this direction. Now it puts bets on traditional companies that can help AI to re -invent them and make them more profitable.