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This week would have been a short week because it started on holidays in the United States. However, some of the founders were busy on the day of the inauguration ceremony, and for the next few days, they brought us more than their fair.
The most interesting startup story of this week
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This week, I remembered that not all sales were born in the same way, and in many cases it was worth looking at the other side of the price tag. In addition, AI deco -korn had legal problems.
There is no split: Divvy Homes, a rental housing startup supported by A16Z, will be sold to a category of BrookField Properties for about $ 1 billion. However, some shareholders may not be able to get a money by selling.
Beauty Sales: Consumer Financial Large Hindustan Uneliva has agreed to acquire a peak XV supported Indian skin care emerging company minimalist for about $ 342 million. This exceeds the $ 300 million dollar, which was said to have been requested for financing last year.
Significant price reduction: AI Parked Platform Metropolis has acquired computer vision companies OOSTO in some parts of the startup. Previously, it was known as Anyvision, but it lost its supporters because the technology was used in controversial monitoring applications.
Legal collision: The scale AI, which was evaluated as $ 13.8 billion last year, faced the third worker lawsuit in 2025, and the contractor wrote a prompt about unpleasant content. He claims to have received it. “We are taking a lot of safety measures,” said a spokeswoman for Scale AI.
News of the most interesting VC and financing this week
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The size of the series B -round announced this week was very different, exceeding other series C rounds. And for companies that are still not listed, there are still many characters in the alphabet.
Letter before IPO: Data Analysis Platform Databricks has completed a $ 10 billion J stock procurement round for $ 62 billion, and has raised funds with $ 5.25 billion. Meta supports the company as a strategic investor.
Cat to Unicorn: Sweden's body scance tat -up, NEKO HEALTH, co -founded by Daniel Eku of Spotify, is a name for “cat” in Japanese, a post -money of $ 1.8 billion in the series B -round in the series B -round. I procured the dollar.
Relocation fund: Lindus Health, which is currently relocating its headquarters from the United Kingdom to the United States, is an emerging company supported by Peter THIEL and CREANDUM. Secured.
Reduction of expenditure: AI -utilized SaaS expenditure management platform Vertice, according to the sources, raised $ 50 million in Lakestar -led series C -round, and the valuation has approached $ 500 million.
Indian robot engineering: India -based autonomous moving robot Startup ATI Motors has raised $ 20 million in Series B to aim for international growth. The United States is already a majority of ATI revenue, and the company hopes that it will benefit from the demand of robots manufactured outside China.
Cryptryptrypt: Angellist and Coinlist are partnered using the resurrection of the crypto, and establishes a crypto special vehicle and a crypto trolse -up vehicle that allows the founder of the crypto to raise funds using cryptocoin. I did it.
Last but not least, it's important
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AI is still attracting attention, but there are always sub -sectors that VCs are more interested. In order to know what type of AI startups they want to support this year's most, Techniccrunch has summarized some results from recent surveys for 20 enterprise VCs. In other words, think about companies, not functions.