Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search

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May 8, 2025

What We're Reading

  • Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search [TechCrunch] 
  • Reddit intros new profile tools for its business customers [TechCrunch] 
  • Amazon’s newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listings [TechCrunch] 
  • Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ and ‘Cybercab’ trademarks hit roadblocks ahead of June launch [TechCrunch] 

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Parloa, a company that provides an AI platform that empowers organizations across critical industries such as Insurance, e-commerce, utilities, and travel, raises $120MM Series C from Altimeter Capital.

Generative AI • Berlin, Germany

 

Orca AI, a maritime tech startup, empowers shipping companies to enhance their operational safety, efficiency, and sustainability through a single AI and computer-vision-based operations platform, raises $72.5MM Series B from Brighton Park Capital.

Artificial Intelligence • London, United Kingdom

 

Alta Resource Technologies, a company which specializes in using advanced biochemistry to transform mineral separation, raises $4.4MM Seed 2 from Data Collective.

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Anysphere, a company that develops AI tools for professionals, raises $900MM Equity Funding from Thrive Capital.

Developer Tools • Buffalo, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Rainmaker, a firm that develops cloud-seeding technology designed to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds, raises $25MM Series A from Lowercarbon Capital.

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Gruve, a company that provides software development services, raises $20MM Series A from Mayfield.

Artificial Intelligence • Redwood City, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

ChurchSpace, a provider of a marketplace designed to help churches leverage their underutilized church real estate as on-demand event, worship, and kitchen space, raises $1.2MM Series A from Black Ops Ventures.

PropTech • Detroit, MI • Post-Money Valuation

 

RightRev, a provider of revenue recognition automation solutions for businesses, raises $13MM Series A from Innovius Capital.

Automation • Santa Clara, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

 

Posha, a company that developed an AI-powered kitchen robot that autonomously prepares meals, raises $8MM Series A from Accel Partners.

Artificial Intelligence • San Mateo, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Tesseral, an open source authentication infrastructure for B2B software companies, raises $3.3MM Seed from Y Combinator.

Open Source • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Statsig, a software focused on helping people to use data in building products, raises $100MM Series C from ICONIQ.

Big Data • Kirkland, WA • Post-Money Valuation

 

HGGC invests in Fullscript, a firm offering a personal care healthcare platform.

Enterprise Software • Ottawa, Canada

 

Coreweave acquires Weights & Biases, a firm that develops performance visualization for machine learning and helps teams track their models, visualize model performance and easily automate training and improve models.

Visualization • San Francisco, CA • Deal

 

R.W. Beckett acquires Thermo Products, a manufacturer of thermo products specializes in furnaces, air handlers, evaporator coils and related applications.

Industrial Products • Denton, NC • Deal

 

Madison Dearborn Partners intends to acquire significant ownership in NextGen Healthcare, a provider of ambulatory-focused technology solutions.

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Lamar Advertising acquires Premier Outdoor Media, an outdoor media company that offers static and digital billboards.

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Rochester Midland acquires OCS Chemical, a full-service engineering company specializing in water treatment chemicals and services for heating and cooling systems.

Chemicals • Cortlandt Manor, NY • Deal

 

Datadog acquires Eppo Data, a company that develops next-gen A/B experimentation platform that helps companies run experiments by automating analysis, diagnostics and investigations.

A/B Testing • San Francisco, CA • Deal

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