Startup funding articles
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startup funding: ETtech Deals Digest: Startup funding falls 30% on year to $73 million this week
Startup funding in the penultimate week of April 2024 declined by nearly 27.9% from the same period a year ago, totalling $74 million across 14 deals. However, deal density in the latest week improved to $5.3 million per deal, as per Tracxn data. From April 6 to April 12, 2023, startups had raised about $2.4 million per deal. Funding was down sequentially as well, from $103 million across 15 funding rounds in the previous week. Of the total corpus raised this week, fundraises of...
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OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M
The OpenAI Startup Fund, a venture fund related to — but technically separate from — OpenAI that invests in early-stage, typically AI-related companies across education, law and the sciences, has quietly closed a $15 million tranche. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, two unnamed investors contributed the $15 million in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Deadline to apply for startup chip funding on the horizon
The tech minister is urging semiconductor leaders to apply for funding through the soon-to-expire Chips Joint Undertaking. UK semiconductor companies and researchers are currently eligible to apply for access to a £5m funding pot for research. British firms gained access to the funding in March when the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced […]