AI Startup Funding Rounds
Articles on AI startup funding rounds, valuations, investor deals, and venture capital activity in the AI sector.
Savi Security Addresses AI-Powered Fraud with New Consumer Protection App
Savi Security has raised $7 million in seed funding and is launching its iOS and Android app, designed to protect consumers from sophisticated AI-generated scams like voice cloning and phishing.
Wayve’s $85M Loyalty Play: Why AI Startups Are Paying Employees to Stay — Not Just to Leave
Wayve’s $85M employee tender isn’t just liquidity—it’s a retention weapon in the war for AI talent. Here’s how startups are turning equity sales into loyalty engines, and why investors are betting big on the future.
Liquid Gold: How Structured Secondary Tenders Keep AI Talent from Walking Out the Door
As AI startups experience soaring valuations but face prolonged IPO paths, companies like Wayve, ElevenLabs, and Clay are offering structured tender offers to give employees early liquidity and prevent critical talent defections.
AI Lab Built on Poker Algorithms Now Powers $500M Quant Trading Firm
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab co-founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers who created the first no-limit poker AI, has raised a $500 million valuation Series A led by Creandum to scale reinforcement learning models for automated trading.