Protego Ventures closes $125 million Israeli defense tech fund
Protego Ventures has closed its first fund with $125 million in capital commitments, TechCrunch reported. The Israeli firm plans to invest $5 million to $50 million per company in defense and security technology. Ares Management c...
Rayon raises €10 million for interior design software
Paris-based Rayon has raised €10 million in a Series A round led by Partech, The Next Web reported. Northzone, Foundamental and Seedcamp also participated. Rayon said it will spend the funding on a 3D mode, more AI features for it...
Atomic raises $12.5 million to expand supply-chain planning software
Atomic has secured a $12.5 million Series A round led by Klass Capital and Madrona Venture Group, bringing the Boston startup's total funding to just north of $15 million. Its software simulates inventory scenarios and recommends ...
Marble raises €6.5 million for fraud and compliance software
Paris-based Marble raised €6.5 million in a Series A round led by Smartfin, bringing its total funding to €9 million. The company develops open-source software that banks, fintechs and payment providers use to detect fraud and mee...
Study finds all 21 tested cars contacted outside domains
Every vehicle in a 21-car study transmitted data to at least one outside domain over Wi-Fi, researchers from Northeastern University and Consumer Reports found. More than half contacted advertising, tracking or analytics domains. ...
Researchers demonstrate offline multilingual voice assistant on Raspberry Pi
Researchers report that LUMO, an offline voice assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of memory, can recognize speech, generate replies and speak them without a cloud connection. Its language model uses four-bit compressi...
