Cohere a Toronto-based provider of cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) models, raised $40 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Section 32, returning investor Radical Ventures, and several global AI luminaries, including Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, and …

Explosion, a company that has combined an open-source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced that it raised $6 million in Series A on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire. Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms …

HAAS Alert, a SaaS company that provides real-time automotive collision prevention for public safety and roadway fleets, raised $5 million in seed funding. The round was led by R^2 and Blu Ventures, joined by TechNexus, Stacked Capital, Urban Us, Techstars, Ride Ventures, and Gramercy Fund. The company will use the …

Sunday, an insurtech startup based in Bangkok, raised a $45 million Series B led by Tencent. SCB 10X, Vertex Growth, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Granite Oak, Quona Capital, Aflac Ventures, and Z Venture Capital participated in the round. The new funding will be used to expand in Indonesia …

Vatis Tech, a Bucharest, Romania-based startup, raised €200K in seed round for its AI-powered online speech recognition platform. The funding is provided by Early Game Ventures, Sparking Capital, and Mălin Ștefănescu, President of TechAngels. Company: Vatis Tech, SRL Raised: €200.0K Round: Seed Round Funding Month: September 2021 Investors: Early Game …

Elixia Tech, a Mumbai, India-based supply chain tech startup, raised $1 million in pre-Series A funding led by Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund. The company intends to use the funds to scale up its presence in both domestic and international markets. Company: Elixia Tech Solutions Ltd Raised: $1.0M Round: pre-Series A …

Vowel, a New York, U.S based Virtual meeting platform startup, raised $13.5 million in a Series A round led by David Hornik OF Lobby Capital. Existing investors Amity Ventures and Box Group, with a group of individual investors, including Calendly CEO Tope Awotona, Intercom co-founder Des Traynor, Slack VP Ethan …