Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing. Jack Newton,…
AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals
Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing startup Vapi to handle its inbound phone traffic.…
Hammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuation
Artificial intelligence services at their heart are massive data plays: you need data — a lot of it — to build the models, and then the models need efficient ways…
Signed and sealed: Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays complete $500M, 14-year extension
A news release at 2:15 p.m. ET Wednesday announced the second-biggest contract, in terms of present value, in baseball history, ending a months-long saga with the commitment of the four-time…
OpenAI recently discussed acquiring io Products, a startup co-founded by Jony Ive and Sam Altman to build an AI-powered device, for at least $500M (The Information)
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the Chinese startup behind Manus is in talks with US VC firms and others to raise funding at a $500M+ valuation, up ~5x from its previous valuation (The Information)
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Nerdio nabs $500M to power virtual desktops on Azure
Nerdio, a platform designed to simplify how companies deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, has raised $500 million in a Series C round of funding. The Chicago-based startup says its…
Report: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. asked Blue Jays for $500M in contract talks
The Blue Jays’ last offer before Guerrero’s self-imposed Feb. 18 deadline — the day of Toronto’s first full-squad workout at spring training — was around $500 million, but with significant…
Cherry Ventures raises a new $500M fund for early stage and beyond, but will it be enough?
It’s sometimes said that European VC doesn’t have the firepower to compete with VCs in the U.S., which regularly raise billion-dollar+ funds these days. Perhaps further evidence of this view…
Chris Brown Files $500M Defamation Lawsuit Against Warner Bros.
Chris Brown has reportedly filed a $500 million defamation lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery, Ample, and others for the ‘Chris Brown: A History of Violence’ docuseries. RELATED: Awww! Chris Brown…