<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>

<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startup news this week was fairly routine — in a good way: Aside from a minor kerfuffle between Y Combinator and Google, there was no headline-grabbing drama. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For years, big tech companies like Amazon and Google have been trying to make virtual try-ons engaging to encourage consumers to shop more online. Startups also tried to solve for inspiration and fit in fashion using AI. A new startup called Doji is now entering this space with an app designed to make apparel try-ons [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hedra, which offers a video generation and editing suite powered by its Character-3 model, has raised $32M.</p>

<p>Harvey AI is in discussions to raise more than $250 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue that would value it at $5 billion, Reuters reported</p>

<p>AI-powered notetaking app Granola is raising $43 million in funding at a $250 million valuation. It is also launching a team sharing feature.</p>

<p>TensorWave, a data center provider building facilities primarily with AMD hardware, has raised $100 million as it seeks to further build out its data center infrastructure. The funding round was led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, and brings the company&#8217;s total capital raised to $146.7 million, according to Crunchbase. Maverick Silicon, Nexus Venture Partners, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Realta hopes to build power plants cheaply enough to supply power as low as $40 per megawatt-hour.</p>

<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week was busy for startups: While there were no IPOs of note, there were other exits and even unusual liquidity events, as well as a significant [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Gates Foundation is expected to spend $200 billion over the next 20 years to support causes related to health and human development.</p>

<p>Breathe has developed a suite of tools that it says helps automakers and others get the most out of their batteries.</p>

<p>As &#8220;vibe coding&#8221; gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools, a platform that scans for vulnerabilities in AI-generated code has raised a fresh round of funding. Ox Security, which models risk across both AI- and human-produced code, on Wednesday announced that it closed a $60 million [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Finom, an Amsterdam-based digital bank for small- and medium-sized businesses, has raised €92.7 million (roughly $105 million) in a growth investment from General Catalyst&#8217;s Customer Value Fund, the company tells TechCrunch exclusively. The capital infusion &#8220;will be used exclusively and only for growth&#8221; and not for operational expenses or product development, Kos Stiskin, Finom’s chairman [&hellip;]</p>

<p>CNaught is a market maker seeking to ease the pain of buying carbon credits for companies without dedicated teams.</p>

<p>In 2017, Raghav Gupta set out to solve a personal problem: He wanted easy access to the home-cooked meals he grew up eating without having to spend time cooking or spend money on takeout or hiring a private chef. He turned to robotics, which led him to found the startup Posha. Posha, a former TechCrunch [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The autonomous navigation market — where ships, guided by AI, steer themselves, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to sail past $11 billion by 2028. As a result, companies in this space are pushing on an open door. The latest is Orca AI, which closed a Series B funding round of $72.5 million [&hellip;]</p>