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San Diego Roundup: Qualcomm, Philter, Stella Labs, VC Funding & More

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AON Devices, headed by former Qualcomm engineer Mouna El Khatib, is developing semiconductors that use ultra-low-power artificial intelligence algorithms for voice and audio recognition by battery-powered applications. Qualcomm Ventures invited 10 artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, virtual reality, and.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

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billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week. The financing brings Postmates’ total funding to nearly $1 billion. Vianai raises $50M seed to transform machine learning. Equity drops every Friday at 6:00 am PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , and all the casts.

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UiPath Snags $225M To Expand Robotic Workforce for Businesses

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New York-based UiPath is the latest such company to score a haul, announcing Tuesday it raised $225 million in a Series C funding round co-led by earlier investor CapitalG —the growth equity investment fund of Google parent company Alphabet—and Sequoia Capital, a new investor.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

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In contrast, San Francisco-based RichRelevance, founded in 2006, has raised nearly $102 million from 11 investors through nine funding rounds, according to CrunchBase. When you get all that data and analyze it, you get interesting insights,” Sheik said.

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Convoy Reloads With $185M For Its Freight Shipment Marketplace

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Convoy , an online marketplace that connects shippers with freight truck fleets and independent drivers, announced today it raised $185 million in a Series C fundraising round led by CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says.

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Empirico Raises $17M, Inks 3-Year Antisense Collaboration with Ionis

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Empirico, a biotech that has developed tools to analyze genomics data and use those insights to identify potential therapeutic targets, has signed a collaboration deal with antisense drug developer Ionis Pharmaceuticals that includes a $10 million equity investment.

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Automation Anywhere Scores $250M To Globalize Bot Workforce

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Automation Anywhere , which supplies customers with armies of software robots to take over manual tasks such as insurance claims processing, announced today it raised $250 million in a first funding round that set its post-money valuation at $1.8

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