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    Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

    Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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    EU plans new fund to help tech companies scale

    EU plans new fund to help tech companies scale

    Shorouk Express The fund seeks to counter a “clear funding gap” that European companies experience when scaling risky, capital-intensive technologies that need investments above €100 million. The lack of scale-up capital “poses several risks for the EU,” such as the loss of companies and critical technologies domestically, according to the plan. “A European scale-up with…

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    Arcade raises M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful | TechCrunch

    Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful | TechCrunch

    [ad_1] Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But…

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