#startup-funding
5 stories taggedstartup-funding.

Passionfroot raises $15 million to connect B2B brands with specialist creators
The Berlin startup says AI is flooding the software market with lookalike products, pushing companies toward trusted human voices on LinkedIn, podcasts and newsletters to stand out.

Meet the robots being trained to build solar farms faster than any human crew
A startup called Gritt says its AI-controlled machines can help an eight-person crew install four times as many solar panels in a day. It just raised $34 million to prove it.

Rime raises $24 million to make AI phone calls feel less like talking to a robot
The San Francisco startup trains its voice models on real recorded conversations, not scraped internet audio. Its bet: better data means enterprise customers stop hanging up.

Indian AI startup Emergent hits $1.5 billion valuation after $130 million raise
The Bengaluru-based company lets non-technical business owners build software by typing plain instructions. It now has 200,000 paying customers and $120 million in annual revenue.

PixVerse Raises $439 Million and Hits $2 Billion Valuation in AI Video Push
The Singapore startup lets users generate 4K video from a single image. Alibaba is already a customer, and 150 million people have signed up.