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November 06 Food delivery startup Wonder files for IPO as it explores its next big bite
Following years of fundraising, acquisitions, and expansion, food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company.
Also, the Los Angeles-based startup has now raised more than $650 million, and is working on electric trucks, emergency vehicles, and a driverless platform for the military.

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November 05 Spain's Titan OS raises $46 million; Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds; plus, AI inference startup Fal doubled its valuation
Titan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date.
Also, cybersecurity focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
And Fal is a five year startup and recently raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.

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November 04 Revolut’s valuation jumps 53% to $115B in new share sale as it prepares to launch US bank, and more
Glade Brook, Coatue and T. Rowe Price were among the investors that led the share sale.
Also, India’s EloElo nabbed $80 million from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market. StoryTV has more than 33 million monthly active users according to Sensor Tower figures

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November 03 Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts, and more
-Trajectory is a one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
-Evertrue Capital announces $17M debut fund to back early stage AI and fintech.

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November 02 Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition; plus, Northwood Space raises $375M Series C at a $2B valuation
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
Also, space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion.

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October 30 Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream to build AI world models for construction; plus, Upwind raises $400M; and Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy
-Trained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI.
-The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.
-Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain, Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents

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12 min
October 28 Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?
Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.

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13 min
October 27 Matiks raises $10M to expand its math and puzzle gaming platform; AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, plus, Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs
Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.
Also, "despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
And Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.

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14 min
October 26 Helion could double output of its power plants; plus, startups don’t need to go viral to win customers; and Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation
Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.
Also, at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.
And Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says.

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13 min
October 23 The secret to fast startup growth isn’t early sales say top names in tech; plus, Rivian bought a world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions
At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days.
Also, EV maker Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded by veterans of the gaming and autonomous vehicle industries that uses AI to turn images and videos into lifelike 3D worlds.

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