With consumers increasingly asking questions of ChatGPT – not Google – product discovery is changing. And the promise to give brands visibility and control over this fast-growing search channel has made Peec AI one of Europe’s hottest startups.
Just four months after its seed round led by 20VC, the Berlin-based startup has raised a $21 million Series A led by European VC firm…
Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework
November 18, 2025
Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck was in software.
“You can make the best hardware on earth, but if…
MCP AI agent security startup Runlayer launches with 8 unicorns, $11M from Khosla’s Keith Rabois and Felicis
November 18, 2025
On Monday, a new Model Context Protocol security startup called Runlayer launched out of stealth with $11 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Felicis.
It was created by third-time founder Andrew Berman (previous companies: baby-monitor maker…
South Korea’s major defense giants have amassed roughly $69 billion in order backlogs as of late 2024, according to media reports. Seoul is also accelerating investment in advanced weapons systems and expanding its defense ties, particularly with Europe. With the new EU-South Korea Security and Defence Partnership in 2024 and growing exports of vehicles and artillery, the country has become…
Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft
November 17, 2025
After a year of frenzied dealmaking and rumors of an upcoming IPO, the financial scrutiny into OpenAI is intensifying. Leaked documents obtained by tech blogger Ed Zitron provide more of a glimpse into OpenAI’s financials – specifically its revenue and compute…
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
November 17, 2025
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly…
Inside Harvey: How a first-year legal associate built one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups
November 17, 2025
Legal AI might not sound like the sexiest category in Silicon Valley, but Harvey‘s CEO Winston Weinberg has captured the attention of virtually every top-tier investor in the Valley. The company’s cap table reads like a who’s who of venture capital: the OpenAI Startup Fund (its first institutional investor), Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Elad Gil, Google Ventures, Coatue, and…
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
November 14, 2025
Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea no one in agriculture seemed to want – an AI model to help design better pesticides. By the time they left, they had a new business model, a new company, and eventually…
Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you
November 14, 2025
Google is rolling out a suite of AI shopping updates just ahead of the holiday season. The company on Thursday unveiled a host of new tools and features, including conversational shopping in Google Search, new shopping features within its Gemini app, agentic checkout, and…
Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI
November 14, 2025
Generative AI has become a key part of coding workflows, but most companies struggle to track its use, let alone its return on investment. Israeli startup Milestone hopes to help with a platform designed to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality.
The catch is that these companies have to give Milestone access to their codebases, a bet that investors initially…
