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<p>Volteras has raised $11.1 million to expand its connected car offerings to automakers and companies that want to interact with EVs.</p>

<p>In the construction industry, managers can easily become disconnected from what’s happening on-site. Among the many tasks to juggle are staying apprised of costs, communicating with all stakeholders, and assessing risk related to aspects like contractor billing and performance. Buildots wants to change all of that through AI and computer vision. Founded in 2018 by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AMD has acquired Enosemi, a startup designing custom materials to support silicon photonics product development.</p>

<p>AI-powered office suite Context raises $11 million in seed funding from Lux Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and General Catalyst.</p>

<p>We were blown away by the incredible interest in speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. After a thorough review, we’ve narrowed it down to 20 standout finalists — 10 for breakout sessions and 10 for roundtables. Now it’s your turn to decide. Audience Choice voting is open [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google I/O didn&#8217;t stop startups from taking their chances and announcing some big deals this week. </p>

<p>LM Arena, a crowdsourced benchmarking project that major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, has raised $100 million in a seed funding round that values the organization at $600 million, according to Bloomberg. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)&nbsp;and UC Investments, which manages an investment portfolio for the University of California, led the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An increasing number of meetings have an AI note-taker present that transcribes the call and provides action items. Siro wants to do the same for sales folks who are on the ground and talking to customers face-to-face. The company on Wednesday announced it has secured $50 million in a Series B round led by SignalFire [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The global assistive technology market was valued at more than $22 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow substantially by 2030. Despite the potential market size, many founders building tech to help people with disabilities struggle to secure the kind of early funding needed to get their companies off the ground in the first [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SparkCharge raised $15.5 million in equity and secured a $15 million loan to expand its fleet charging operations.</p>

<p>Gravitee, a platform designed to help companies manage their APIs and other digital traffic pipelines, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC. The new capital, which brings Gravitee&#8217;s total raised to just over $125 million, will be used [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Affiniti founders Aaron Bai and Sahil Phadnis are building the kind of expense management software for main street small businesses that tech startups have enjoyed for years.</p>

<p>With the current economic uncertainties and geopolitical challenges, securing funding for startups in Asia has recently become more difficult. Venture capital firms have also been impacted by the downturn, leading to a decrease in the number of funds being closed. The VC market is &#8220;going through [one of its] cyclical winters marked by high interest [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. Sully Omar, one of the founders of Ottogrid, announced the deal Friday in a post on X. He didn&#8217;t disclose the terms. Ottogrid will sunset its product, according to Omar, but will give customers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The funding round arrives as tech companies and utilities are struggling to secure power for data centers.</p>

<p>Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million in new funding, the company has raised more, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing, submitted Thursday, reveals that Moonvalley actually landed (so far) around $53 million total from a group of 14 unnamed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fieldstone Bio recently raised $5 million in seed funding.</p>