Tag: Artificial intelligence (AI)

SparkLabs closes $50M fund to back AI startups

SparkLabs — an early-stage venture capital firm that has made a name for itself for backing OpenAI as well as a host of...

Grammy CEO says music industry also has AI concerns

Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, caused a stir a few months ago.  He announced that the organization’s prestigious Grammy Awards would...

Investors are already valuing OpenAI at over $100B on the secondaries market

OpenAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at an eye-popping $100 billion-plus valuation, sources told The Wall Street Journal...

VCs are so eager for AI startups, they’re buying into each others’ SPVs at high prices

VCs are increasingly buying shares of late-stage startups on the secondary market as they try to get pieces of the hottest ones —...

The top AI deals in Europe this year

Startups overall are still facing strong headwinds when it comes to raising venture capital funding. Q2 was only a modest improvement on the...

Harmonyze wants to build AI agents to help franchisors make sense of unstructured data

For some businesses, there is a clear path to growth that doesn’t involve acquiring other companies or expanding organically: franchising. The U.S. has...