🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-15
Exploring funding insights: AI safety gains traction, but big cloud bills loom.
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Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.
🦺 + 💰 This proves that there is some money in AI safety and security.
Techmeme: AI safety and security startup Virtue AI raised $30M in seed and Series A funding and says its customers include several frontier labs, Uber, and Glean (Sam Sabin/Axios)
By Sam Sabin / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤔 + 💰 Or, this means fewer but bigger AI related cloud bills are coming.
Techmeme: PitchBook: US startups raised $91.5B in Q1 2025, up 116% YoY, while the number of deals fell 25% YoY to 3,003, as more money went into fewer very large rounds (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
By Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
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