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Founder Lodge | SLUSHY.com raises $10,200,000 at Seed on 2024-06-26

SLUSHY.com raises $10,200,000 at Seed on 2024-06-26 in Entertainment, industry founded/co-founded by David Gross

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Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform | Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform --- When AI erotic companion startup Oh raised a $4.5m funding round in January, it had something few in the shadowy new sector could boast. A roster of named investors, publicly backing the company. VCs are often bound by “vice clauses”, which prohibit firms from investing in controversial products like pornography or weapons. As a result, startups working on ethically contentious products often rely on angel investors and family offices to stay afloat. But Oh, which generates NSFW adult content and conversations with both fictional characters as well as bots based on real people, has tapped into a group of seemingly less squeamish investors: crypto VCs. It’s drawn backing from the likes of Tangent, Kosmos Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Bodhi Ventures and Tagus Capital. “Raising money for a business like this from non-crypto VCs is very difficult,” says Oh founder and CEO Nic Young, who positions the startup as a “decentralised platform” and offers payments via crypto. “A lot of crypto VCs don’t have vice clauses — it’s more liberal and free.” Oh wants to use those fresh funds to build the “AI OnlyFans”, with plans to roll out autonomous scantily clad bots that can market themselves on social media and direct message users with spicy conversation starters. The biggest challenge? Convincing enough users it’s not that weird turning to AI when you’re looking for romance. https://lnkd.in/eRF7a5Dn

SparkToro Raised a Very Unusual Round of Funding & We're Open-Sourcing Our Docs - SparkToro

The Short Version Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right for many

Linq Raises $1.1M to Create Secure Platform for Sharing Intimate Images | Femtech Insider

London-based startup Linq has raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding for its platform designed to give users control over their intimate images and help combat revenge porn and "sextortion" scams. Founded in 2024, Linq has developed an app that uses AI technology typically deployed to prevent media piracy, allowing users to grant and revoke access

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Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business

Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating a…

Google DeepMind and partners announce multi-agent safety research funding call.

Google DeepMind and partners are announcing a new technical research funding call of up to $10M for researchers worldwide to strengthen multi-agent safety.

It’s actually open source software that's eating the world

At Lightspeed we’ve been investing aggressively in open source software (OSS) businesses for the past 10 years. Recently, we’ve seen a significant increase in entrepreneurs pitching open source startups, and we’ve also seen greater competition for these deals. We pulled together some numbers in an attempt to measure the acceleration in interest in and funding for OSS businesses in the last few years. The results were staggering even to us.

Why AI agent startup /dev/agents commanded a massive $56M seed round at a $500M valuation | TechCrunch

/dev/agents, a new company by the developers of Android, believes a new operating system is needed to fully realize the potential of AI agents.

Breakout Ventures eyes neuroscience and AI with new fund

The venture capital firm has $114 million to invest

Slack is work chat's runaway train, raises $200M at $3.8B | TechCrunch

The Slack rocketship won't slow down. The business messaging startup has raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms

NSFW AI chatbot startup Oh scores £3.7m - UKTN

Oh, a startup that allows users to chat with AI-generated model characters, has announced a $4.5m (£3.7m) seed funding round.