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This week he had to be short in the United States, as he started with a holiday. But on the day of the inauguration he kept some founders and following days they brought us more than their right dose of startup news.
Most interesting start stories of the week
This week he reminded us that not all sales are created equal and that it is often worth looking beyond the price. In addition, there were legal problems for a Decacorn Ai.
No Spin: Divvy Homes, a rent for rent supported by A16Z, is selling to a division of Brookfield Properties for about $ 1 billion. However, some shareholders may not see a penny from the sale.
Beauty for sale: The Giant of Consumer Herdustan Unilever has agreed to acquire the Indian Cute Indian Crashica Startup Minimalist supported by about $ 342 million, beyond the evaluation of $ 300 million which according to what was reported in an attempt to fund funding from last year.
Great Markdown: Parking platform based on Metropolis artificial intelligence has acquired the Oosto artificial vision company for a fraction of what the startup had increased so far. Previously known as Anyvision, he had lost supporters for his technology used in controversial surveillance applications.
Legal clash: Assessed at $ 13.8 billion last year, Scale Ai is facing his third legal cause of 2025, with contractors claiming to have suffered psychological damage due to the writing of disturbing content. A spokesman for stairs Ai said he had “numerous guarantees in progress”.
Most interesting VCs and financing news this week
The Rounds of the B series announced this week varied significantly in size, with some of these overcomed other rounds of the C. and for companies that do not yet want to become public, there are even more letters in the alphabet.
Pre-iPo letters: The Databrks’ data analysis platform closed a 10 billion dollar Serie J share financing round to an evaluation of $ 62 billion, with further $ 5.25 billion in debt funding. Meta is supporting the company as a strategic investor.
From the cat to the unicorn: Neko Health, the Swedish startup for scanning of the body co-founded by Daniel Ek of Spotify, and whose name means “cat” in Japanese, has collected a round of Serie B funding from $ 260 million to $ 1.8 billion After the money.
Money to move: Lindus Health, a startup supported by Peter Thiel and Creandum who is currently moving his headquarters from the United Kingdom to the United States, a 55 million dollar Serie B round has been secured to “correct the broken clinical experimentation industry “.
Spend less: The Saas expenditure management platform fueled by artificial intelligence vertex has collected a round of $ 50 million funding led by Lakestar, with an evaluation near $ 500 million, according to sources.
Indian robotics: The autonomous mobile robots based in Indian Startup ATI Motors collected a $ 20 million Serie B to grow internationally. The United States already dominate ATI revenues and the company hopes to further benefit from the demand for robotics produced outside China.
Crypto Crypto Crypto: By exploiting the return of Crypto, angellist and coinlist they joined to launch vehicles for special purposes and vehicles rolled up in cryptocurrency that will allow Crypto founders to collect capital using cryptic coins.
Last but not least
Artificial intelligence is still hot red, but there are always subsectors to which the VCs are more interested. To understand which types of startups that would like to return to return this year, Techcrunch has collected some results of our recent survey on 20 corporate vc. In short: think of companies, not functionality.
