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May 02, 2025 Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M
Supio, a startup that uses AI to automate data collection and analysis for legal teams, has raised $60 million in a funding round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures.

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4 min
May 02, 2025 Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely
AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can be used to “cheat on everything” from job interviews to exams. But some startups are claiming they can catch Cluely’s users.

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3 min
May 01, 2025 Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups
Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat.

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3 min
May 01, 2025 Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere
When it comes to creating images of the earth from above, satellites, drones and planes are the air and spacecraft that tend to come to mind. But a startup called Near Space Labs is taking a very different approach to high-resolution photos from up high.

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6 min
April 30, 2025 Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps
The startup's enzymes modify a cow’s microbiome using enzymes, slashing methane while boosting the nutrients available to the cow.

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5 min
April 30, 2025 From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off
In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition.

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8 min
April 29, 2025 RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries
RepAir recently raised a $15 million extension to its Series A.

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4 min
April 29, 2025 Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla
A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn’t even painted.

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8 min
April 28, 2025 Datadog acquires AI-powered observability startup Metaplane
Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Metaplane, an AI-powered data observability startup, for an undisclosed amount. In a press release, Datadog said that the deal “accelerates” its expansion into data observability, building on the launch of related products.

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5 min
April 28, 2025 Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup
As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about to unlock capabilities…in the application layer in the software stack.”

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5 min