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Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation. Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition. VC Chris Degnan and former board adviser to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for competitor Cognition -- and everyone is arguing on X about it.
Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America. Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why are investors betting so big on this category? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, […].
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B. The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.