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AI chip company Kneron raises $49M to scale up its commercial efforts

Kneron, which is developing AI chips to power self-driving cars, among other autonomous machines, today announced that it raised $49 million in an extension to its Series B round from investors includ

Eat Just bags $25M, gets Alibaba’s help to sell alternative protein in China

China is a notoriously difficult market for international startups to crack, but one company seems to have found the recipe for wooing the country’s picky consumers. Three years after Eat Just l

AI-powered VFX startup Wonder Dynamics raises $10M A round

Wonder Dynamics aims to make “blockbuster-level” visual effects achievable by living-room-level creators using AI and cloud services, though it has kept its product closely under wraps. Th

Fleet Space Technologies raises $7.35M for its space-based IoT tech

Australian satellite startup Fleet Space Technologies has raised a $7.35 million round of funding to help launch its next generation of nanosatellites, extremely small satellites it employs to deliver

MioTech gets $7M to build artificial intelligence based tools for wealth managers in Asia

MioTech, a financial tech startup with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, has raised $7 million in Series A funding to develop artificial intelligence based software for investment managers. The round

Mobile hardware lab Nanoport gets $7 million in seed funding

Held at Moscone Center in San Francisco earlier this month, Mobile World Congress Americas was a pretty uninspiring show, but a few interesting startups stood out among the rows and rows of mobile com

Ezetap, racing against bigger rivals like Paytm, just raised $16 million in fresh funding

There are more than 1 billion cellphone users in India, which abruptly went cashless last November. These two developments play nicely into the vision of Ezetap, a six-year-old, Bangalore-based start

Slice Labs raises $3.9M to insure on-demand workers when they’re on the job

Tim Attia, co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, said there’s “a ticking time bomb” threatening the on-demand economy — namely, insurance and liability. Attia’s tackling that pro

Berlin’s Jobspotting Gets Some Seed Love From Horizon Ventures

Berlin-based Jobspotting, a site and iOS app which aims to put a tailored search interface algorithm over third-party recruitment sites and your social connections, has raised an undisclosed round of

Shine Security Raises $3.3M To Combat Attacks On Par With Stuxnet

<a target="_blank" href="http://shinesec.com">Shine Security</a> has raised $3.3 million for its next-generation anti-virus technology. The round was led by Horizon Ventures with further participatio