Sources: Spark Capital gained ~$530M this week when eToro went public; Spark was eToro's largest shareholder at its IPO, with a ~13% stake after investing ~$19M
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Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for ~1,000 restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: Sesame, which makes realistic AI voice assistants, is in talks to raise $200M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, valuing the startup at $1B+
a startup that's created hyper-realistic artificial intelligence voice assistants named Maya and Miles …
Ahead of the Switch 2, Nintendo is branching out to use its characters in cinema, theme parks, and merch in a Disney-like way to create more consistent revenue
Tech Across the Globe … Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital are in talks to co-lead the round. — Revalued
Brooklyn-based Underdog, a fantasy sports and sports betting app, raised $70M in a first Series C tranche at a $1.23B valuation from Spark Capital
I'm incredibly excited to be part of this team — not just because of the headline … Jeremy Levine : Very excited to welcome Spark Capital to team Underdog! Bria Elly : Underdog is growing...like a lot...
Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or customized AI models, raised $75M led by IVP and Spark Capital at a $825M valuation and claims 100+ clients
Baseten, a startup that runs artificial intelligence models for clients on their cloud infrastructure, has raised $75 million in funding, the company said Wednesday.
Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
Wordware, which lets customers like Instacart and Runway create AI agents using natural language instead of code, raised a $30M seed led by Spark Capital
from seasoned engineers to non-technical domain experts—can build AI agents that streamline processes, enhance [image] LinkedIn: Tytus Cytowski : 👉 We represented Wordware (YC S24) in its $30M series ...
Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Berlin-based Qdrant, which makes open source vector database of the same name, raised a $28M Series A led by Spark Capital, after raising $7.5M in April 2023
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