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

Encrypted nudes app Linq raises $1.1m to stamp out revenge porn

The app also uses facial recognition technology to prevent someone other than the intended recipient seeing intimate images.

Dealroom.co | Slushy Raises $10.2M in Seed Funding

Slushy, a Miami-based adult content platform, raised $10.2M in Seed funding from Mantis VC, Electric Feel Ventures, Jon Oringer, Sean Rad, Edison Chen, and Brooklyn Johnny. The funds will be used to expand operations and development efforts. Slushy, founded in 2020 by David Gross and Fred Spivock, has integrated AI tools and introduced a new feature, Perfect Match, inspired by dating apps. The platform has seen over 250,000 videos posted to date.

Grant for the web

The Interledger Foundation’s Grant for the Web program awarded $200,000 in total to content publishers and publishing platforms in 2025. Grantees are implementing support for Web Monetization and exploring the viability of a revenue model between ad-supported access and paywalls using Web Monetization..

Getting Started

Now more than ever privacy, impact, openness and cost matter.

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

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.

Anthropic commits to spending $200 billion on Google's cloud and chips: Report

The commitment suggests the AI startup accounts for more than 40 per cent of the revenue backlog Google disclosed to investors last week, according ‌to the report.

Dark Web Informer on Twitter / X

‼️🇺🇸 LAPSUS$ Group is allegedly selling a massive dataset of https://t.co/Q6UlD72i8v, an AI recruiting platform with $500M+ revenue, is being auctioned on a popular cybercrime forum, TG, and their website.▪️Total Size: ~4TB▪️Data Includes: 211GB of database▪️939GB of source… pic.twitter.com/hEvp244uNO— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) March 30, 2026

GGV Capital API-First Index

At GGV Capital, we are focused on finding the most promising developer-first software companies commercializing APIs, having already backed Agora, Authing, Pinwheel, Mindee and Stream. We are going all-in on API companies because they will fundamentally simplify software development. APIs will allow developers to offload lower-value and time-consuming components of application development so they can focus on higher-value work. For example, instead of a company asking its developers to spend months writing code to accept payments for its software, they can get up and running quickly with Stripe. For authentication, they can use Auth0. For chat, they can use Stream.We expect the use of APIs to continue growing exponentially in the next few years, and many promising companies are building with an API-first approach, including Algoia for search, Mux for video, and Commerce Layer for e-commerce. The public markets are also taking notice. Twilio and Agora are now publicly traded. Okta acquired Auth0 for $6.5B. SoFi acquired Galileo for $1.2B. We expect this trend to continue.2023 Q2 Update Highlights 1) Investment activity continues at a slower pace in Q22) Cohere raised one of the largest funding rounds of Q2 at $270M 3) Two additions to the API-First Index: Clerk & LibLab‍2023 Q1 Update Highlights1) Slower investment activity continues in Q1 2023 2) Stripe raised one of the largest funding rounds of 2023 at $6.5B3) Two additions to the API-First Index: Finch & SyncteraIn 2022, we tracked VC deal activity for 120+ API-first companies across categories. Find out what we learned:2022 Year in Review Report.‍‍GGV Capital is tracking 150+ API-first companies. We have now expanded the API-First Index to include the 60+ private companies that have raised $50M+ in funding. With this Index, we are focusing on API-first companies and have not included the broader and flourishing API economy (but are also very excited about this, having backed Kong and Tray.io!). If you are building API-first, we would love to meet you! Please contact us at apifirstindex@ggvc.com to be included in our list.

Ceartas raises $4.5m seed round co-led by The Sidemen

Ceartas, a start-up that uses AI to provide copyright protection for creators, raised $4.5m in seed funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital and Upside.

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM

Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research

Sequoia-backed security startup Vanta will see its valuation soar past $2 billion in new funding round, sources say

Sequoia-backed Vanta is raising a new round of funding that values the startup at more than $2 billion, Business Insider has learned.

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.

Building open, private AI with the Mozilla Builders Accelerator | The Mozilla Blog

AI tools are more accessible than ever. Big tech companies have made this possible, but their focus on growth and monetization prioritizes large-scale prod

any-llm platform: Cloud Vault and Usage Tracking for LLMs

any-llm managed platform adds end-to-end encrypted API key storage and usage tracking to the any-llm ecosystem. Keys are encrypted client-side, never visible to us, while you monitor token usage, costs, and budgets in one place. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more.