<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>

<p>It&#8217;s 2025, but business cards are still in vogue — just visit any conference or industry expo and you&#8217;ll end up with a pile that&#8217;s likely to be discarded sooner rather than later. But as smartphones have become our repositories of information and contacts, people are understandably keen to try out digital alternatives to business [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Every year, donors contribute billions of dollars to charities, yet the donation process still feels outdated and cumbersome. Founders Dan Eblagon and Ron Levy believe there is an easier way to donate, leading to the creation of Bono, a platform designed to facilitate a more modern and streamlined approach to giving. The platform (named after [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Datadog is on an acquisition spree. Just a few weeks after snatching up Metaplane, an AI-powered observability startup, the cloud monitoring and security company has acquired Eppo, a feature-flagging and experimentation platform. Eppo will continue supporting existing customers and bringing on new ones under the brand &#8220;Eppo by Datadog.&#8221; Terms of the deal weren&#8217;t disclosed, but [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anysphere, the maker of AI-powered coding tool Cursor, has attracted $900 million in a fresh round of funding led by Thrive Capital, The Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel are also participating in the round, which values Anysphere at about $9 billion, the report said. Cursor [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Legendary investor Warren Buffett announced today that he will ask the Berkshire Hathaway board to have Greg Abel replace him as CEO at the end of 2025. “I think the time has arrived where Greg should become the chief executive officer of the company at year end,” Buffett said at the end of the company’s [&hellip;]</p>