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•Karthik Idikuda: "Be honest about what you have achieved and what you are still trying to prove"•Raj Soni: "Lasting value comes from solving real, field-level customer problems"•Afiya Choudhury: "Do not be afraid to build something that has never existed before"•Mohammed Thaha: "Be stubborn about the problem you want to solve, but flexible about how you solve it"•Saurabh Kumar: "Great companies can be built from small villages"•Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari on Doordripp: "Why can't fashion be delivered as quickly as groceries?"•Harvey raises $550M at a $15.5B valuation as legal AI revenue crosses $400M•Gimlet Labs raises $300M at a $3B valuation to run AI inference across every chip•Karthik Idikuda: "Be honest about what you have achieved and what you are still trying to prove"•Raj Soni: "Lasting value comes from solving real, field-level customer problems"•Afiya Choudhury: "Do not be afraid to build something that has never existed before"•Mohammed Thaha: "Be stubborn about the problem you want to solve, but flexible about how you solve it"•Saurabh Kumar: "Great companies can be built from small villages"•Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari on Doordripp: "Why can't fashion be delivered as quickly as groceries?"•Harvey raises $550M at a $15.5B valuation as legal AI revenue crosses $400M•Gimlet Labs raises $300M at a $3B valuation to run AI inference across every chip
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Quaise closes $180M to drill five kilometres down and build the first superhot geothermal plant
Technology

Quaise closes $180M to drill five kilometres down and build the first superhot geothermal plant

Quaise Energy has closed a $180 million Series B to commercialise millimetre-wave drilling - a technique intended to reach rock hot enough to make geothermal power viable in far more places than it is today.

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Technology

Cylake raises $245M in convertible notes for cybersecurity 'operational sovereignty'

Cylake has raised $245 million in convertible notes from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital and Redpoint Ventures, for a platform built around what the company calls operational sovereignty.

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Cylake raises $245M in convertible notes for cybersecurity 'operational sovereignty'
AI

Harvey raises $550M at a $15.5B valuation as legal AI revenue crosses $400M

Harvey has raised $550 million at a valuation of roughly $15.5 billion, less than six months after its previous round valued it at $11 billion. The company says it now serves 80% of the top 100 law firms.

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Harvey raises $550M at a $15.5B valuation as legal AI revenue crosses $400M
AI

Gimlet Labs raises $300M at a $3B valuation to run AI inference across every chip

Gimlet Labs has raised $300 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $3 billion valuation, betting that the future of AI inference is heterogeneous - and that no single chip architecture wins outright.

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Gimlet Labs raises $300M at a $3B valuation to run AI inference across every chip
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