Meet the startup that makes quitting cigarettes, vaping and Zyn cool
New York-based Jones just raised $10 million to expand its nicotine lozenge company in the stodgy, $3 billion smoking cessation market.
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Forbes next billion-dollar startups list has accurately predicted 100+ unicorns in 10 years
Of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list’s 225 alumni, 131, or 58%, became unicorns, including DoorDash, Figma, Anduril, Benchling and Rippling. This year, the list is dominated by artificial intelligence.
Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt raised $150 million for household robot startup
Vogt, who resigned from the self-driving car company amid a crisis just six months ago, landed a $550 million valuation for a new company that wants to sell robots for personal uses like cleaning your house.
$10 billion productivity startup Notion wants to build your AI everything app
Notion co-founder Ivan Zhao captivated Silicon Valley investors and everyday consumers alike with a sleek productivity app that went so viral its servers crashed. Now, the profitable startup’s CEO sees a rare opening to break Microsoft and Google’s dominance in the workplace by going early and aggressive on AI.
Revenge of the bootstrapped startup
Founders Srinivas Njay and Bruce Kim bootstrapped interface.ai with $1 million of their own capital. Now the VCs are calling—but they’re waiting for the right partner.
Disney Channel actress launching space data startup
Bridgit Mendler, an actress and singer best known for her roles in Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie” and “Lemonade Mouth,” is adding a CEO title to her resume with her satellite data startup Northwood Space.
$739 million hits start-ups in Q3 – but funding still lags behind 2022
Seventy-seven deals were announced in the third quarter of 2023, with total funding this year slightly outpacing 2020 – but still well below 2021 and 2022, Cut Through Venture’s Australian Venture Capital Funding Report reveals.
E-commerce software startup Shop Circle raises $120 Million to support growing number of online merchants
London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday.
$65 million CSL-backed biotech incubator on the hunt for Aussie start-ups
A new biotech incubator in Melbourne, the Jumar Bioincubator, operated by Cicada Innovations, has put a call-out to early stage start-ups looking to scale their ventures.
‘Daunting’: Australian startup funding slowest Q1 since 2019
In the first three months of 2023, Australian startups reported $661 million of capital raised across 82 deals. That was less than 50% of reported capital raised in Q1 of 2021 and 20% of Q1 in 2022, according to Cut Through Ventures’ quarterly report.