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October 10, 2023

AMD to Acquire Open-Source AI Software Expert Nod.ai

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai to expand the company’s open AI software capabilities

September 27, 2023

WeRide Named Top 10 to Fortune 2023 Change the World List

New York, September 27, 2023 -- Fortune magazine released its "2023 Change the World" list, featuring 59 companies which make a positive impact on the world's environment and society. WeRide, a leading global autonomous driving technology company, ranked eighth on the list. Among the top 10, Tesla and General Motors ranked 1st

September 26, 2023

Exo® Introduces a New Age of Ultrasound with Exo Iris™

Exo (pronounced “echo”), a medical imaging software and device company, today unveiled a category-redefining handheld ultrasound device, Exo Iris™, to put high-performance medical imaging into the hands—and pockets—of every caregiver

September 06, 2023

$110M In Funding Will Help d-Matrix Get Generative AI Inference Platform To Market

Company sees a window where they can launch their cost-effective solution and get traction ahead of other’s next-gen silicon

June 30, 2023

WeRide gets approval to operate fully driverless Robotaxi in Beijing

WeRide officially obtained the permit to carry out “unmanned remote stage” demonstration application in the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone (hereinafter referred to as the “demonstration zone”). Its Robotaxi can now conduct fully driverless operations in Beijing.

May 24, 2023

Ayar Labs Adds $25 Million in Expansion of Its $130 Million Series C

New Funding Fuels Acceleration of Optical I/O Roadmap Supporting Generative AI, Machine Learning and HPC Applications

March 07, 2023

Point2 Announces Industry’s Lowest Power 112G Mixed-Signal SoC for 800G Active Electrical Cables

AECs Built with the New Point2 Purpose-Built SoC Consume 40% Less Power and 40% Less Cable Volume to Accelerate the Era of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Datacenters

November 15, 2022

New Microsoft partnership accelerates generative AI development

Microsoft and d-Matrix today announced that the Microsoft Project Bonsai reinforcement learning will be supported on the d-Matrix DIMC technology, which the two vendors hope will provide a significant acceleration for AI inference

November 09, 2022

NVIDIA AI Turbocharges Industrial Research, Scientific Discovery in the Cloud on Rescale HPC-as-a-Service Platform

As industrial giants increasingly turn to the cloud, NVIDIA teams with Rescale to bring the full stack of NVIDIA AI software to every major cloud service provider

October 05, 2022

WorkSpan Raises $30 million in Series C Funding for Customers to Drive Revenue Growth with their Partners

Startup WorkSpan raised $30 million to keep growing as it helps top tech companies like Microsoft, Cisco, and SAP manage relationships with partners

August 01, 2022

FiscalNote to Begin Trading on NYSE Under the Ticker Symbol "NOTE"

Duddell Street Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DSAC) ("Duddell Street"), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, today announced the completion of its business combination (the "Business Combination") with FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. ("FiscalNote"), a leading AI-driven enterprise SaaS company that delivers legal and regulatory data and insights

July 26, 2022

Exo® Acquires Medo AI to Make Medical Imaging as Easy as Snapping a Smartphone Photo

By integrating Medo’s AI, Exo enables more caregivers in more settings to capture and interpret medical images – allowing faster and more accurate diagnoses and treatment

April 26, 2022

Ayar Labs Raises $130 Million in Series C Funding

Ayar Labs Raises $130 Million in Series C Funding, Accelerating Commercialization of Industry’s First In-Package Optical I/O Products

April 20, 2022

d-Matrix Announces $44 Million in Funding

d-Matrix Announces $44 Million in Funding to Build a One-of-a-Kind Compute Platform Targeted for At-Scale Transformer AI Datacenter Inference

March 1, 2022

Balbix Announces $70M Series C Funding to Fuel Innovation in Cybersecurity Posture Automation

Total funding now over $100M on momentum of record growth and enterprise adoption

November 23, 2021

Rescale Closes $105 Million in Expanded Series C Funding

Rescale, the leading hybrid cloud high performance computing (HPC) platform enabling intelligent computing for digital R&D, today announced it has closed $105 million in an expanded Series C funding round

November 4, 2021

DigiLens Series D Values the Company at Over $500M with Samsung Electronics Leading the Funding Round

With Over $50 Million Raised in this Round DigiLens’ Technology Becomes a De Facto Standard for XR Glasses and The Company Strengthens its Licensing Business Model and Global Reach

September 24, 2021

Edison Acquired by Yipit to Accelerate Mission of Offering Independent & Privacy-Focused Email Products

Edison are now joining the Yipit family!

August 26, 2021

Volta Charging to List on NYSE Under the Ticker "VLTA"

Volta Inc. ("Volta"), an industry leader in commerce-centric electric vehicle ("EV") charging networks and Tortoise Acquisition Corp. II ("TortoiseCorp II"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, today announced the completion of their previously announced business combination

July 29, 2021

Exo Secures $220M in Series C Funding Round

Exo will commercialize an affordable handheld ultrasound device and workflow platform for a new era of medical care

May 13, 2021

WeRide secures Series C funding round, boosting the company’s valuation to US$3.3 billion

This comes just four months after its Series B fundraising of US$310 million, with the new round resulting in the company’s valuation at US$3.3 billion

March 09, 2021

World’s First Brain-Inspired AI Inferencing Chip Taped Out on the Azure Cloud

Chip startup, d-Matrix, experienced first-hand the power of having the combination of the Azure compute cloud and an experienced partner in Six Nines to help them navigate their robust set of needs to operate and drive to results successfully

March 09, 2021

Hiya Ranked #1 on the Forbes list of Best Startup Employers in the US

For No.1 Hiya, reputation and employee satisfaction are top of mind

February 02, 2021

Rescale raises $50M to help public clouds fix the “developer experience” in the HPC domain

Rescale, a San Francisco, California-based startup developing a software platform and hardware infrastructure for scientific and engineering simulation, has raised $50 million

January 22, 2021

Ad-supported EV charging network developer Volta raises $125 million

Volta, the developer of a network of electric vehicle charging stations that monetize using advertising, has raised $125 million in new funding in a process managed by Goldman Sachs

January 22, 2021

Autonomous vehicle startup WeRide raises $320 million

WeRide, a Guangzhou, China-based startup developing autonomous vehicle systems, today announced it has raised a total of $310 million in series B funding after completing series B2 and B3 rounds. The fundraising follows the closure of a $200 million strategic round by Chinese bus maker Yutong in December, which added $110 million to WeRide’s series B haul.

December 04, 2020

FiscalNote raises $160 million to help companies track government legislation

FiscalNote, a global technology company that provides software and political intelligence around legislative and regulatory risk, announced that it has secured $160 million in growth capital and debt financing led by Arrowroot Capital and Runway Growth Capital. Amidst macroeconomic and public health uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic -- as well as heightened political tensions around the world -- FiscalNote continues to amplify its capacity to meet increasing demand for deeper domestic and international political and regulatory information.

August 20, 2020

Exo raises $40 million to bring high-quality ultrasound to handheld devices

Founded in 2015, Redwood City-based Exo emerged from stealth last August with around $48 million spread across several funding rounds. Notable backers include Intel Capital, which returned for this series B+ round alongside lead investors Fiscus Ventures, Reimagined Ventures, and Action Potential Venture Capital. With another $40 million in the bank, Exo said it’s now well-positioned to bring its data and workflow apps to market and to conclude product development for its handheld ultrasound device

August 05, 2019

Exo Imaging Emerges from Stealth Mode with $35M Series B Financing Round to Advance Development of the Exo Ultrasound Platform

Exo Imaging, Inc., a company pioneering a high-performance ultrasound platform based on patented Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (pMUT) technology and artificial intelligence (AI) for imaging and therapeutic applications, announced a $35M Series B financing round. The company was founded in 2015 and has raised nearly $50M to date. Intel Capital led the Series B. Other investors in Exo include: Applied Ventures, Bold Capital, Creative Ventures, Longevity Vision Fund, Magnetar Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners, OSF Healthcare, Rising Tide Fund, Sony Innovation Fund, and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.

July 23, 2018

Volta’s ad-supported electric vehicle charging service raises $35 million

That sentiment was echoed across the company’s investor base, which has grown with the $35 million Series C round to include a slew of new investors including: GE Ventures, Orsted Venture, Nautilus Venture Partners, and Idinvest all join as new investors. Initial investors Virgo Investment Group and Autotech Ventures, also returned to put capital into the company. In all Volta has raised $60 million since it was founded in 2010.

Oct 19, 2017

Hiya, a Whitepages spinout, nabs $18M for its smart caller ID technology

Hiya is today announcing its first outside funding to grow its business: a Series A of $18 million led by Balderton with participation also from Nautilus Venture Partners and Lumia Capital.

Sep 26, 2017

JingChi Raises $52M in Pre-A Investment Rounds to Fuel Growth and Development of Autonomous Fleets for US and China

JingChi Inc. ("JingChi"), the leading self-driving technology company from China, announced today the completion of a combined $52 million pre-A investment round from lead investor Qiming Venture ("Qiming"), strategic investor NVIDIA GPU Ventures, and a consortium of other investors. The investment allows JingChi to rapidly expand its research and development teams globally, and ramp up deployment of a fully Level 4 autonomous driving test fleet in China by the end of 2017. Duane Kuang, Founding Partner at Qiming, will join JingChi’s board of directors.

July 16, 2017

Welcome Edison. EasilyDo Changes Name; Unveils New AI-Based Email Features and Launches Trends Dashboard

EasilyDo, Inc., creator of popular Email and Smart Assistant apps, today announced a corporate name change to Edison Software (www.edison.tech). The company’s signature mail and virtual assistant apps are being rebranded as Edison Mail (Email) and Edison Assistant, respectively.

May 15, 2017

3D Sensor Start-Up AIRY3D Raises US$3.5 Million in Seed Financing

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - May 15, 2017) - AIRY3D Inc., a Canadian start-up company in 3D computer vision, today announced that it has raised US$3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round co-led by CRCM Ventures and R7 Partners. Other investors include WI Harper Group, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners and several angel investors that are affiliates of TandemLaunch, the Montreal-based incubator that spun out AIRY3D.

January 19, 2017

DigiLens Raises $22 Million For Consumer-Focused Augmented Reality Products

DigiLens raised an additional $22 million in a Series B investment round from Sony, Foxconn, Continental and Panasonic, along with venture investors including Alsop Louie Partners, Bold Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners and Dolby Family Ventures.

January 13, 2017

Maluuba + Microsoft: Towards Artificial General Intelligence

We are incredibly excited to announce an important milestone on our journey so far. As of today, Maluuba has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft. As we turn the page on this new chapter, we thought we would discuss this exciting development and share our thoughts on what’s next to come.

November 3, 2016

Intel to Acquire VR Startup VOKE for Immersive Sports

Intel Is Building a Broad Portfolio of Best-In-Class Solutions to Deliver Immersive Sports Experiences for Athletes, Fans and Content Producers

March 14, 2016

VR sports and music startup Voke raises $12.5M from Intel Capital, Sacramento Kings, A&E and others

Voke, a virtual reality technology company that specializes in live streams of sports and music events, has raised $12.5 million in venture capital, the company confirmed to GeekWire today.

Maluuba Raises $6.2M in Series A Funding

Maluuba, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based machine-learning company, raised C$9m ($6.2m) in Series A funding.

Fitness tracker maker Skulpt picks up $4.1 mln Series A

Fitness tracker maker Skulpt has raised $4.1 million in Series A funding. Nautilus Venture Partners led the round with participation from Caerus Venture Partners.

Nod Labs Gets $13.5 Million In Funding To Push Nod Backspin, A Gaming Ring To Rule VR Headsets

Gesture recognition and motion tracking hardware startup Nod Labs has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to market the latest addition to its ring controller family – the Nod Backspin.

February 9, 2015

Exclusive: Former Foxconn and Samsung execs launch VC firm

Nautilus Venture Partners has quietly launched as a new Silicon Valley venture capital firm, with a focus on helping startups partner with large tech corporations, Fortune has learned. The plan is to provide many of the same benefits of corporate VC groups, but without the long waits for investment decisions or possible conflicts of interest.