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Startups are not isolated from the world. But this week, the financing news felt positively not correlated from the general news cycle, offering some respite, or perhaps more time to prepare to invest in “planetary and social health”, as plans by a new background.

More interesting starting stories of the week

This week included an exit, a demand, a disappointing sale and a scientific controversy.

Operai students: The former Operai Mira Murati CTO assured two new high -profile advisors with past ties for Openai for his new company, ai Startup Thinking Machines Lab. As for the co -founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, he chose the Google Cloud TPU chips to feed the research conducted by his new startup of ai, Safe Superintelligence.

Friends and enemies: According to reports, Operai is considering spending $ 500 million to acquire IO products, the ai ​​hardware startup that Jony Ive is building with Sam Altman, although the two companies could end up associating in their place. Meanwhile, Openai's dispute with Elon Musk continues, this time with a counter -process against his former supporter.

Leaving part: The head of communications of Deel left the human resources technology company, which is accused of planting a spy at the Ripal Rippleing startup.

Colossal or not: Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected the direct Wolf, but scientists without links with the company challenge the claim, and there is still a debate about its valuation of $ 10.2 billion and if it is undervalued or exaggerated.

Yo-yo: Lyst, the British fashion market once valued at around $ 700 million, has been acquired for only $ 154 million in cash per zozo based in Japan.

Not so solid: Banking solid as a solid service for the bankruptcy protection of Chapter 11, citing “significant and expensive litigation”. He had raised almost $ 81 million, but faced a legal challenge in 2023 when the BTV capital BTV of the B series sued to claim its investment of $ 61 million.

VC news and more interesting financing this week

This week was much softer in the starting land than in the stock market, with many advertisements of agreements and funds.

Road turns: The Nuro Autonomous Driving Startup secured an E $ 106 million series to an assessment of $ 6 billion, below $ 8.6 billion in 2021. The fall in the valuation reflects not only market trends, but also that the company may need less capital, since it results from delivery robots to a license of its technology.

Power for people: Base Power, a fast -growing domestic battery support provider in Texas, raised a B $ 200 million series directed by sum, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Equity Partners value.

Like stripes: SIPAY, a Startup Fintech based in Istanbul that is invoiced as “strip for emerging markets”, raised a B series of $ 78 million at an assessment of $ 875 million to expand out of Türkiye.

Get it to rain: The Rain salary access startup raised a B series of $ 75 million of $ 75 million directed by Prosus, which plans to use to add credit card and save products to its offer.

Looking from above: Brinc Drones, a police drone startup based in Seattle founded by Blake Resnick, from the abandonment of the 25 -year -old University, raised $ 75 million in new funds led by Ventures Index.

Soft generation: Krea, a Startup based in San Francisco that helps designers and visual creativity to use tools of various generative ai models, revealed having collected $ 83 million in several sections, including a series of $ 47 million B.

Still hiring humans: Artisan, a startup sales agent known for his marketing campaign to “stop hiring humans”, raised a $ 25 million series that will help him add 22 members to his 35 people team.

Thousands of millions under administration: Signalfire blocked more than $ 1 billion in fresh capital, carrying its total assets under administration to approximately $ 3 billion. And Himpeau Lerer closed its ninth fund at $ 200 million, above its eighth fund of $ 140 million, and carrying its assets under administration to $ 1.4 billion.

Twice is a charm: The VC firm based in Berlin Revent obtained a Fund II of $ 109 million to invest in new companies of “planetary and social health”. Dig Ventures of DIG of Family VC-Office also raised $ 100 million for its second fund, which will be deployed mainly in Europe to support new companies in early stages in B2B SAAS, ai and cloud infrastructure.

Last but not least

The mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, recently declared in the Strictlyvc event of TechCrunch that he is personally calling the CEO of technology to ask how the city can be more supportive. “I am calling businessmen and saying: 'How can we stay here?' Or “How can we recover?” Said Lurie.