Startups Weekly: Drama or game-changer? You decide

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This week was low on M & A and IPO news, but there is still some drama that must be followed, if this is your thing – and most importantly, some worthy startup companies are funded.

The most interesting startup stories of the week

From trivial to more serious, there was no lack of legal startup developments this week.

appetizersStartups have launched products such as “Truely” to capture people who use an artificial intelligence fraud application, but young people say they are ready to stay one step with devices products that will make it difficult to discover.

BesiegeCaastle is facing the start of the troubled fashion lawsuits and new allegations after its founder accused the mismanagement of financial behavior.

DiscoverHOT ROBITICS Startup has sent the intelligence number, stops and DiSst to at least two brokers who run secondary markets, demanding to stop marketing the company’s shares.

He is still fightingImaguru was the first BERUS start starting center. Now its founders are in exile, but they continue their mission, with the presence of centers in Warsaw and Madrid supported by European institutions.

Serial dramaDel officially agreed to submit legal papers in the lawsuit that her opponent began on alleged espionage.

defectiveLondon -based investor -based investor from the American bankruptcy judge to stop selling EV Canoo assets to its CEO, describing it as a “defective” process.

The most interesting VC news and funding news this week

If all startups that have announced the financing rounds this week have reached their goals, the world may be a better place. In addition, some money is ready to support more entrepreneurs.

Delivery of a networkCast AI, which is the startup construction tools to improve the work burdens of AI and automatic tasks, raised the C series of $ 108 million to supply R&D and its geographical expansion.

Strong operation: Lightrun, an Israeli startup that helps the observation platform that is enabled in AI, is a correction correction code, which was secured in the B series of $ 70 million by New Packer Access alongside Seven Investor Insight Partners.

Legal technologySUPIO, an emerging company that uses artificial intelligence to automate data collection and analyze for legal teams, raised a $ 60 million financing round led by Sapphire Ventures.

A bold visionIXI, a Finnish startup in the hope of bringing the automatic focus to the described glasses, collected $ 36.5 million from the Amazon Alexa Fund and others to work on its first commercial product.

B2B TradeNuvo, a San Francisco -based startup, has gathered the purchase of physical goods among companies, a series of $ 34 million from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital.

And omniretail, which aims to facilitate B2B e -commerce throughout Nigeria and West Africa, raised a series of $ 20 million by Norfund Development Finance Corporation and Norfund VC Timon Capital.

Early detectionNagoya, which works at Nagoya University, which uses Microrna to develop the early Amnesty International Cancer Detection Program, which uses a $ 22 million chain to provide expansion, research and development.

BalloonNear the Space Labs, a start -up company that can contain the Balloon -based air photography platform, dual -use applications, obtained a Bold Capital Partners, a VC company founded by Peter Dialandis.

hotGlacier, an emerging company behind a fleet for recycling from the robot that was already published in many American cities, obtained a 16 million dollar chain led by the Ecological System Safety Fund, with the participation of the Amazon Climate Opening Fund.

NotKintsugi, a sales tax company for artificial intelligence named after Japanese art to repair broken pottery, has collected $ 15 million in Vertex tax technology solutions and $ 3 million of current investors with post -money rating of $ 150 million, an increase of $ 80 million in November.

No further burningHoofprint Biome, which is the start of the vulgar methane emissions by adjusting the microbium for livestock, gathering a series of $ 15 million led by SOSV.

The upper trend in the United KingdomVC, the UK VC company, has launched its headquarters in Fintech, AI and Saas, a new fund worth $ 100 million to double its thesis.

One follow -upThe European platform that focuses on Etreneur Ewor launched its “founder”, which committed approximately $ 68 million for the initiative, which will compete with the Harry Stengles Fellowship project in Europe.

Last but not least

You may not have heard about Partovi, but those who know. A graduate of Harvard University, born in Iranians, has an impressive record in a multi -contract bus that extends to establish and exit many startups and early investment in technology giants. He is now leading the 8 -year -old project company, whose early money works very well.