BlueQubit, a San Francisco-based quantum software startup founded by Stanford alumni, thinks it might have the answer. To further its mission, it’s now raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Nyca Partners. The idea is to marry enterprise applications and advanced quantum hardware.

The sports media company-slash-league operator’s social content is by Gen Z, for Gen Z. “Don’t tell them what to do,” CEO Dan Porter said.

With a league turning out five-star prospects, there’s no denying that OTE has fundamentally altered the hoops landscape.

Auxa Health, a healthcare company founded in January 2022, revolutionizes how healthcare organizations and individuals navigate the complex world of Medicare, Medicaid, and public benefits. By consolidating information on health plans, state and federal programs, and community resources into a single, AI-powered platform, Auxa Health simplifies access to essential benefits and services.

In April 2023, Leonard, who also manages the musical artist Grimes, introduced Elf.Tech—a fully synthetic version of Grimes’ voice. This platform enables anyone to use the AI-generated rendition of her vocals, with Grimes receiving 50% of the proceeds. The system is powered by Triniti’s AI voice API.

Delfi aims to democratize Wall Street by making financial risk management solutions accessible to firms of all sizes and exposure. Too many are hit by volatility in interest rates, foreign exchange, and commodities but lack the resources and know-how to develop robust hedging strategies. Delfi aims to change this by bringing AI and machine learning risk management algorithms to the real economy.

The portal will provide lawyers and legal professionals access to pro bono opportunities dedicated to safeguarding the electoral process in the 2024 U.S. General Election.

Astrocade AI announced a $12 million seed funding round for its AI-based social gaming platform for casual games. The money came from AME Cloud Ventures, Nvidia Ventures, Venture Reality Fund, and gaming and tech veterans Eric Schmidt, Niccolo De Masi, John Riccitiello, David Baszucki, Jerry Yang, Mike Abbott and more.

A “one-stop shop” for health care information, Auxa Health aims to make benefits navigation easier to understand. Its accomplishments led to a highlight on the Nasdaq tower in Manhattan.

ComplyAdvantage, a leader in financial crime intelligence, today announced its acquisition of Golden (Golden Recursion Inc). Golden is a San Francisco-based innovator automating the construction of one of the world’s largest knowledge graphs, which shows interconnected data points and their relationships for the purpose of analyzing complex information.  

Music tech studio CreateSafe, co-founded by Grimes’ manager Daouda Leonard, officially launched today its generative AI-powered platform, Triniti — available on the web as a free open beta. Triniti enables artists to create an AI voice clone, generate text-to-audio samples, ask a chatbot music industry-related questions, monetize creations and manage music IP.

Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer Grimes is delving deeper into artificial intelligence with a new project that would allow creators to use over 200 AI-generated tracks featuring her voice in their video content. The artist teamed up with Los Angeles-based design and development studio CreateSafe and music technology platform Slip.stream to allow creators to incorporate GrimesAI songs in their videos, podcasts and livestreams on any platform.

With more than 10,000 attorneys across the country, the U.S. Department of Justice describes itself as “the world’s largest law office.” Given that broad scope, it is particularly notable that the DOJ today announced a partnership with the justice tech company Paladin to provide every DOJ attorney with access to Paladin’s pro bono platform where they can search and sign up for opportunities to provide legal help at no cost.

If you're of a certain age, the idea of elite high school girls basketball might conjure up images of all-day AAU tournaments in gyms with padded-walls and no air conditioning, players sweating through cheap reversible jerseys in front of a sprinkling of parents sitting on hard, retractable risers using roster sheets to fan themselves. Needless to say, the stakes have gone up.

The company makes its commercial launch today, buoyed by $2.4 million pre-seed funding. Nina Capital led the round and was joined by a group of investors, including Eli Lilly (Lilly Ventures), Mayo Clinic, Two Lanterns Venture Partners, Asset Management Ventures and Chaac Ventures.

Vysioneer, a cutting-edge oncology AI solutions company, was awarded a top presentation of the evening by the judges, earning preferential consideration to present at upcoming pitch nights of Princeton Alumni Angels, Wharton Alumni Angels and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels. Meet the founder, Jen-Tang (JT) Lu *17, as he highlights Vysioneer’s inspiring journey, exciting visions, and the robust Princeton Entrepreneurship network.

The duo symbolizes the transformative potential of Overtime Elite, which offers young athletes a new path to maximize their earning potential outside of the NCAA and propel them to professional stardom.

The deal, also struck with AI development studio CreateSafe, will allow the singer to better monitor tracks released using her AI vocals and ensure a proper royalty split.

As fans begin to slowly trickle into State Farm Arena, their eyes are on the handful of Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics who are completing individual pregame routines before Game 3 of the first-round playoff matchup. In the corner of the arena, 6-foot-7 identical twins unassumingly take their courtside seats, trying to go as unnoticed as possible by the early arriving crowd. Still, every few minutes they are interrupted by someone wanting a photo.

Identity Automation, the digital identity platform for education, and PIXM, a computer vision cybersecurity startup,  today announced the release of a report that illustrates the prevalence of student-targeted phishing attacks in K-12 and outlines the anatomy of such hacking attempts.

In the new age of "all things delivered" and expedited service, it can be easy to lose sight of the environmental impact of last-mile delivery. But as the market grows rapidly and related emissions skyrocket, mobile fueling provides a key solution, explains Frank Mycroft, CEO and founder of Booster.

In May 2021, John Calipari was ranting to reporters, as he is wont to do, about the future of college basketball and what was best for the sport (especially his Kentucky program). At the time, an upstart professional league, Overtime Elite, was gobbling up five-star high school talent by offering six-figure contracts, and caught the Hall of Fame coach’s attention.

Prime Video has signed a deal with Overtime Elite (OTE) for the exclusive global streaming rights to 20 live games per season for the next three years.

For the past several years, Wall Street dealmakers have been decamping for smaller boutique investment banks or starting their own firms. Without a big organization behind them, they find themselves without familiar back-office functions that support M&A, like having a Finra license. Federico Baradello, who practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis before he founded Finalis, is trying to solve that problem.

Golden, a crypto firm building a data protocol with web3 tools, raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by a16z crypto, bringing the total amount raised to date to $60 million. Other participants in the round include Solana co-founder Raj Gokal, Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann. Also among the investors was Matt Bellamy, the lead singer of rock band Muse and a partner at Helium-3 Ventures.

Dan Porter ’88’s latest project, Overtime, is changing the way teens play and watch sports and perhaps upending an entire industry.

Chris Cleveland, founder of PIXM, talks about phishers’ evasive maneuvers and how organizations can tap Computer Vision to keep email and its users safe.

Overtime, a sports media company targeting Gen-Z and millennials, has raised $100 million in series D funding. The series D round is being led by Liberty Media Corporation, which owns several sports and media entities including Formula 1, the Atlanta Braves, SiriusXM and Live Nation.

Golden is building a decentralized platform to discover and verify knowledge.

Overtime announced Liberty Media led a $100 million funding round that also includes investment firm Winslow Capital. They join previous investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions, Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global fund and venture capital firm Sapphire, all of which increased their stake.

Skyfront displayed its newest-version hybrid drone at last week’s Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas. The company makes hybrid (gasoline and battery) powered drones because gasoline, for the same amount of weight, provides more power, explained Hemant Chaudhary, mechanical and controls engineer for the Redwood City, California, firm.

Overtime Sports Inc., the digital media company, has raised $100 million in funding to expand its leagues for the next generation of athletes.

The Penn Quarter-based policy software company first announced plans to go public last fall via a merger deal with special purpose acquisition company Duddell Street Acquisition Corp. Following the official close of the deal — expected for July 29 — FiscalNote will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NOTE.” Trading is expected to begin Monday, Aug. 1.

Pau Gasol’s involvement provides OTE and its student-athletes with an important international perspective as the company sets its sights on continued global growth and opportunities on and off the court. In September, OTE is sending their post-grads to Spain to play exhibitions against top-level competition.

ANIMO Ventures, Chaac Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Tribe Capital and The Fund, and other venture capital firms, have invested $10.7m in Finalis, the fastest-growing technology platform for dealmakers. The seed funding will accelerate Finalis’ market growth, development of its dealmaking technology platform, and overseas expansion.

PIXM, an anti-phishing company, discovered that a fake login portal was used as a substitute for Facebook’s landing page. When people entered their account information on the page, their information was stolen.

Fuel delivery firm Booster said on Wednesday it had raised $125 million in a late-stage funding round led by investment firm Rose Park Advisors with participation from Japan's Mitsubishi Corp.

PIXM announced the expansion of its anti-phishing products with the launch of PIXM Mobile, which protects individuals and enterprises from targeted and unknown phishing attacks on mobile devices.

Daymond John, the investor, entrepreneur, author, and star of ABC’s Shark Tank takes his talents to Overtime to enhance its footprint in media, tech, e-commerce, and beyond.

Booster, the leading mobile energy delivery platform, announces that it has been selected by Forbes as one of the top startup employers in the U.S. for the second consecutive year.

Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has raised $8 million in Series A funding (bringing Paladin’s total financing to over $12M), which it plans to use to further develop its product and expand its market internationally.

Paladin, a Chicago-based tech startup that helps law firms and corporations streamline pro bono opportunities through a software platform, has raised $8 million in its latest funding drive, bringing total financing of the public benefit corporation to $12 million.

Naasir Cunningham, the No. 1 basketball prospect in ESPN's Class of 2024, is signing with Overtime Elite (OTE), he told ESPN on Monday.

Overtime, a burgeoning sports media company, is hoping to build an ESPN for the TikTok and Fortnite crowd. Last week, it wrapped its first-ever Overtime Elite (OTE) season, where the company paid teenagers $100,000 to essentially give up their collegiate eligibility in exchange for exposure.

Computer vision (CV) cybersecurity startup, Pixm, announced it had raised $4.3 million in seed funding. Pixm provides an AI-based browser extension designed to enable organizations to use CV technology, a type of AI that uses convolutional networks and machine learning models trained on millions of labeled images to identify phishing attacks in real-time.

Overtime Elite Chief Content Officer joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss creating a virtual reality-enabled basketball stadium, adopting audience and sports-viewing innovations, and sports streaming in the metaverse.

Overtime Elite has partnered with Meta Quest to make Quest 2 the league’s official VR headset. As part of the partnership, Overtime Elite and Meta are teaming up to create immersive VR experiences that will bring fans up close and personal with the next generation of elite basketball stars.

The new pro league Overtime Elite is luring young phenoms with hefty salaries, viral success, and a better path to the N.B.A.

Overtime Elite (OTE) promises to pay six-figure salaries and offer access to high-level coaching and skill development in a sports-academy setting, to prepare athletes for a pro career. OTE has also hired teachers and academic administrators so that players can secure their high school diplomas. The operation has financial backing from an All-Star investor lineup, which includes Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions fund, Drake, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and a slew of NBA players like Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Trae Young.

Kristen Sonday, CEO of Paladin, was recognized in Crain's Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list for helping to provide access to legal services to everyone and close the ‘justice gap’.

FiscalNote Holdings Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based provider of services used to track government policy, struck a deal to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company at a valuation of $1.3 billion.

Paladin said this week it's expanding its platform to the U.K. after partnering with a handful of local law firms. One of its key partner firms, Clifford Chance, was able to increase its amount of pro bono work by almost 100% in the U.S. by using Paladin, and decided to bring the service to its London headquarters.

An upstart basketball league (Overtime Elite), one built on millions of internet followers and on paying high-school-age players professional wages, begins its inaugural season today. The leadership of Overtime Elite, which will showcase top players from age 16 to 18, is already eyeing ways to expand, including the possibility of striking a traditional media rights deal.

Topps has just announced its foray back into the world of basketball trading cards with an exclusive partnership with Overtime Elite (OTE).

Overtime chosen as #24 in "LinkedIn Top Startups 2021: The 50 U.S. companies on the rise". Overtime is a sports news startup producing original content across YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok in both long- and short-form formats. The company is funded by some big-name athletes like Devin Booker and Trae Young as well as prominent venture capital firms, including Andreessen Horowitz and Greycroft.