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ERA Real Estate announced its latest affiliation with a full-service brokerage powerhouse with a concentrated footprint in Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara County and the Peninsula’s San Mateo County, now doing business as Real Estate Experts ERA Powered. The company, whose core market comprises nearly 2,500 square miles, with an average sales price of $1.3 million, has […]
At devcom developer conference 2025, Europe’s biggest game developer event, Google Cloud last week released new research, conducted by The Harris Poll, that reveals the widespread adoption of generative (gen) AI in the games industry and its transformative impact on game development and player experiences. The study of 615 game developers in the United States, South Korea, Norway, Finland, and Sweden found that […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Planet Labs announced that its high-resolution, AI-enabled Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites were successfully launched to orbit on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Planet team has successfully made contact with Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 and started the commissioning processes for these satellites. Joining Pelican-1 and Pelican-2, Pelican-3 […]
SANTA CLARA — OpenLight, a leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing based on heterogeneous integration, announced the close of its oversubscribed $34 million Series A. The round is co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; Juniper Networks, now part of HPE; Lam Capital, the corporate […]
San Francisco – San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that Walker Reed Quinn (45), has been charged in connection to multiple vandalism incidents involving Waymo vehicles in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. Mr. Quinn is charged with three counts of vandalism more than $400 (PC 594(b)(1)) and one count of vandalism less than […]
BERKELEY — Copper, which manufactures battery-powered appliances, has closed a $28 million Series A financing to expand its operations into new markets and products. The financing, a combination of equity and debt, was led by Prelude Ventures, which invests in startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. The round also includes Building Ventures, […]
SAN JOSE — eBay, which features an auto marketplace with more than 700 million parts and accessories (P&A), is now offering free returns for qualifying P&A purchases. This lets everyone – from occasional DIYers to seasoned mechanics – shop with confidence, knowing they can return an item for any reason, at no cost. “Buying a […]
PALO ALTO — TinyFish, an enterprise web agent infrastructure company, has launched with $47 million in funding led by ICONIQ to transform complex business operations with enterprise web agents. Purpose-built TinyFish enterprise web agents are already in production at unmatched scale at Fortune 500 companies and other large enterprise brands across industries including hospitality, transportation, […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Nuro, which specializes in autonomous driving technology, has closed a $203 million Series E funding round at a $6 billion valuation. The round includes Uber, returning investor Baillie Gifford, and new investors Icehouse Ventures, Kindred Ventures, NVIDIA, and Pledge Ventures. The additional $97 million in funding follows the first tranche of $106 […]
SANTA CLARA — Celestial AI, a provider of optical interconnect technology addressing the scalability demands of modern AI infrastructure, announced the final close of its $255 million Series C1 funding, adding strategic investors VentureTech Alliance and Samsung Catalyst Fund in the round, with deep semiconductor and foundry partnerships. This latest investment brings the company’s total funding to $520 […]
PALO ALTO — Seemplicity, the exposure action platform that delivers faster fixes and stronger security, has secured a $50 million Series B funding round. The latest financing was led by Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Essentia Venture Capital and existing investors Glilot Capital Partners, NTTVC and S Capital. Seemplicity plans to leverage this funding to increase […]
Best Buy has launched a new digital marketplace available on its website and app that more than doubles the number of products available for sale. The marketplace includes entirely new brands, categories and products that weren’t available to customers before. Best Buy Marketplace, powered by Mirakl, marks the largest expansion ever of Best Buy’s product assortment, […]