Startups Weekly: Founders may be raising less, but deals haven’t been lacking

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BI: Omni, a business intelligence platform that helps organizations better analyze their data, closed a $69 million Series B round.

Problem zolved: Zolve, a neobank for highly skilled foreigners moving to the U.S.without credit history, raised $51 million in equity for its Series B round.

Butterfly effect: Manus, the “agentic” AI platform launched by Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, is generating a ton of buzz, although some early users warned it is no panacea, writes TechCrunch’s newly appointed AI editor Kyle Wiggers.

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Author / Journalist: Anna Heim

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Published On: 2025-03-14 @ 17:05:00 (13 hours ago)

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