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August 15, 2025 - Deals
Willow Raises $4.2 Million From BoxGroup And Other Investors For Voice-First Interfaces
Willow (YC X25), co-founded by CEO Allan Guo and CTO Lawrence Liu, has raised $4.2 million led by BoxGroup to expand its voice-first interfaces that help knowledge workers ditch keyboards and work 5x faster. After dropping out of Stanford and pivoting through multiple ideas—including a failed healthcare startup—Cahn and Liu discovered the power of voice scribes for doctors and are now bringing that transformative productivity boost to companies like Canva, GitHub, and Webflow.
INVESTORS: BoxGroup, Goodwater Capital, Burst Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Max Mullen, Kaz Nejatian, Dharmesh Shah, Tomer London, Geoff Donaker, Ankur Nagpal, Steven Zhou, Daniel Reid Cahn, John Andrew Entwistle, Mercedes Bent, JJ Fliegelman, Adam Guild, Cory Levy & Nicolas Dessaigne
AMOUNT: $4,200,000
HQ: #SanFrancisco #California
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Samsung Electronics Signs $200 Billion Memorandum Of Understanding With Broadcom For AI SemiconductorsSamsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding for a deal worth more than $200 billion covering AI semiconductors through 2030, including next-generation memory chips, foundry manufacturing, and advanced packaging. The partnership will have Samsung produce Broadcom’s AI accelerators using sub-2-nanometer technology while supplying HBM4 and HBM4E memory, as both companies look to challenge TSMC’s dominance in advanced AI chip production. The agreement, announced at an AI summit in San Francisco, is part of a broader push to expand AI infrastructure capacity, though it remains a statement of intent rather than a binding contract.
AMOUNT: $200,000,000,000
HQ: Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
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Berkshire Hathaway Acquires Taylor Morrison For $6.8 Billion In All-Cash DealBerkshire Hathaway finalized its all-cash acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison in a deal valued at $6.8 billion in equity and approximately $8.5 billion including debt, creating the fourth-largest U.S. homebuilder under Berkshire’s Clayton Properties Group. The acquisition marks CEO Greg Abel’s first major deal since taking over Berkshire and keeps Taylor Morrison Chairman and CEO Sheryl Palmer leading the combined site-built homebuilding operations.
SALE PRICE: $6,800,000,000
HQ: Omaha, Nebraska
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Magnendo Corp Secures $18 Million Series A Investment Led By Penumbra For Robotic Navigation TechnologyMagnendo Corp., an MIT spinout developing magnetic robotic navigation technology for neuro-endovascular intervention, has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round led by Penumbra, with participation from new and existing institutional investors. The Newton, Massachusetts-based company will use the funding to advance productization of its magnetic robotic platform and prepare for first-in-human clinical studies. Magnendo’s technology features a magnetically steerable soft-robotic guidewire designed to improve navigation through the brain’s complex vasculature, potentially enabling faster and safer stroke procedures. According to CEO Yoonho Kim, clinical data suggests the platform can reduce procedure times, minimize vessel collisions, and help narrow performance differences between less experienced and expert physicians, supporting broader access to advanced stroke treatment.
FOUNDERS: Yoonho Kim & Miki Rosenberg
INVESTORS: Penumbra, BASS Ventures & Kakao Ventures
ROUND: Series A
AMOUNT: $18,000,000
HQ: Newton, Massachusetts
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