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Stuut raises $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners for order-to-cash AI
Stuut raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, with Andreessen Horowitz.
AlleyWatch FundingOriginal AI
TechCrunch StartupsElorian releases Glimpse, a visual reasoning model trained on a few hundred GPUs
Elorian released its first model, Glimpse, as a research preview with API access and a waitlist-only chat interface. Glimpse uses a visual scratch space to crop.
SiliconANGLERapidCanvas raises $29M Series B to build custom enterprise AI applications
RapidCanvas raised $29 million in a Series B round led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India.
Robotics/Hardware
SiliconANGLEMueon raises $65M Series A to develop 3D computing modules
Data center hardware startup Mueon raised $65 million in a Series A led by Maverick Silicon.
Other & Roundup
Crunchbase NewsAsia Startup Funding Hits Near-Record $38.5B in Q3, Driven by AI
Asia's startup funding reached $38.5 billion in Q3, the second-highest quarterly tally on record.
GeekWire
Inrix to sell substantially all assets to Allstate's Arity after 22 years
Bellevue, Wash.-based traffic data company Inrix has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Arity.