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Science lab automation and robotics startup Automata raises $40M

October 3, 2023
Automata, a company that combines software and hardware to automate science labs around the globe, has raised $40 million in an equity-based round of funding, as the U.K.-based startup looks to double down on recent growth across Europe and the U.S. Founded out of London in 2015, Automata in its original guise targeted myriad industries […]

Ten Key Labs wants to simplify managing equity for startups

October 3, 2023
Amar Varma, a three-time entrepreneur and VC, experienced firsthand the challenge of dealing with administering equity stakes within a startup. It’s his belief that many existing solutions — e.g. spreadsheets and even software-as-a-service tools — require founders to handle an outsize amount of the management and accounting work manually, and often end up complicating rather […]

Venture capital spring is here

October 3, 2023
Over the past six months, I have seen a trickle of early-stage financings turn into a river, and I predict we will soon see a gush.

HCVC is back with a new $75 million deep tech fund

October 3, 2023
Paris-based VC firm HCVC just announced the final closing of its second fund simply called “Fund II”. And the team has managed to raise $75 million (€69 million) so that it can back pre-seed and seed companies in Europe and North America. Originally focused on hardware startup investments, HCVC quickly evolved to invest in deep […]

Why Big Tech’s bet on AI assistants is so risky

October 3, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, tech companies have been feverishly trying to come up with the killer app for the technology. First it was online search, with mixed results. Now…