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Some startups earned the price at electric speed this week, and we were confirmed that the Defense Tech Red was hot.
The most exciting startup story from the week
Many of this week’s startup stories happened in orbit Y Combinator. Also, Israel once again survived the reputation of its “Startup Nation”.
He was faster: Nine-code website-maker Vex, at the age of 6 months, received the Boatstrapid Veb Coding Startup Base 44-Israeli companies in $ 80 million in cash.
It was too fast: In just three months, the ramp price rose to $ 16 billion after the series, when the start of the cost of spending earlier this year was secondary.
Friends and enemies: Meta’s $ 14.3 billion contract has revealed new details, which can get 49 % startup scale AI, including potential profit payments. We also learned that the Openi is leaving AI on a scale as a data provider after the deal.
Frenemies: The US Department of Defense awarded Openi directly up to $ 200 million, which could further pressure Microsoft’s startup relationship.
ICYMI: Of all the teams presented at the recent Spring 2025 Demo Day, there are 11 startups about which investors have been talking about.
Did not happen: People are still talking that after the police day, the police have been closed to the YC Demo, after which the controversial AI Startup has tried to throw it in a nutshell. Or as its CEO told Tech Crunch, “The most legendary party that never happened.”
Extremely interesting VC and funding news this week
Most of the financial support was either defensive, AI, or both, but there was some surprise. In addition, a VC firm is creating a high goal for its next fund.
Good intuitive: Applied Antilation, a company that is a software -making company for autonomous vehicles, received Million 600 million Series F and tender offerings at a cost of $ 15 billion.
Tune: Munich -based Defense Tech Startup Heelsing stopped investing $ 600 million under Spatif’s founder Daniel Ek, KVC firm, Prima Metarea, which costs $ 12 billion.
New Unicorn: Corologics, about the start of the Israeli observation, became a unicorn after collecting a $ 115 million series, which it will use to double its head count in India, where 100 of its 550 employees are currently residing.
Told: 2 -year -old Defense Tech Startup Mach Industries confirmed that 100 million round funds were collected under the leadership of Khosla Ventures and Bedrock, priced at $ 470 million.
Money flows: Spora, a startup, formerly known as Venice and focused on remittances from Indian Daspura, closed the $ 50 million Series B, led by Sequrea and Griloick, at a cost of 500 million.
The change of heart: Sword Health, an AI -powered digital health startup that began as a virtual physical therapy solution, which has been locked for $ 4 billion for $ 40 million, headed by Investor General Catalist, headed by a funding round. He also returned his IPO projects to at least 2028.
Multiple: Multiplier Holdings announced that $ 27.5 million has been deposited in the seeds and series A rounds after the increasing trend of buying Legacy Service businesses – in this case, accounting firms – and scales them with AI.
Stock where you purchase: Griffin, a startup that helps users to buy stocks from buying brands, such as Walmart, earned $ 11 million in the series A round.
Out of Sweden: Poor, which developers and AI First Business Payment Infrastructure Platform, collected a round of 10 million seeds headed by Excel. Its CEO had previously laid the foundation of Tactile, which was acquired by Shapif in 2018.
Fast: Global VC Endever Catalist is trying to collect 300 million millions for its fifth fund. It will still be the largest of it, as it deepens its condition on the growing startup in emerging markets.
Last but not less than
Early investors in the chameth, Founder-made-VC Alexa Wan Tubel is ready for Fentic 3.0. In an interview, he told Tech Crunch, “The next wave of innovation will not be in line with the surface, but with the maintenance of the basic deep products – tools that meet the changing economy needs and more diverse, digitally meet the ancestral population.”