Month: August 2025

Aira raises €150m to fund heat pump rollout across Europe Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/aira-e150m-heat-pump-rollout/

The 16 startups backed by Nik Storonsky’s QuantumLight Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/quantumlight-list/

Small may well be beautiful in the AI race Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/openai-gpt5-mistral-lovable-john-thornhill-opinion/

Pronto’s 10-minute house help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days Pronto has raised $11 million in an all-equity Series A round co-led by General Catalyst and Glade Brook Capital at a post-money valuation of $45 million. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/prontos-10-minute-house-help-pitch-sparked-a-3-6x-valuation-jump-in-just-90-days/

Seoul-based Datumo raises $15.5M to take on Scale AI, backed by Salesforce Datumo began as an AI data labeling company and now wants to help businesses build safer AI with tools and data that enable testing, monitoring, and improving their models — without requiring technical expertise. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/seoul-based-datumo-raises-15-5m-to-expand-llm-evaluation-challenging-scale-ai/

Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch businesses, under the belief that what made them successful influencers is what can also make

iOS 26 beta 6 adds new ringtones, snappy app launches, and more The new developer beta release, iOS 26 beta 6, adds new ringtones, faster app launches, and fixes the Camera swipe direction issues. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/ios-26-beta-6-adds-new-ringtones-snappy-app-launches-and-more/

Poshmark CEO and founder to step down After nearly 15 years, Manish Chandra will transition to being a member of the board of directors. Namsun Kim, who has served as executive chairman since April, has been appointed as his successor. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/poshmark-ceo-and-founder-to-step-down/

Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker’s centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/truemeds-challenged-how-indians-buy-medicine-and-saw-a-3-6x-jump-in-valuation/