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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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Colossal Biosciences In Talks For Funding Round Targeting $23 Billion ValuationColossal Biosciences, the de-extinction biotech startup known for its efforts to recreate the woolly mammoth and other extinct species, is reportedly in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $23 billion–$24 billion, according to Axios. The potential raise would mark a significant jump for the five-year-old company, with investors valuing not only its genetic-engineering programs but also its broader genomics, reproductive technology, conservation, and intellectual property platform. Colossal has begun generating revenue through conservation technology sales and technology spinouts, including Astromech, an AI-driven predictive modeling company, and Form Bio, a computational biology platform, expanding its value beyond de-extinction efforts.
FOUNDERS: Ben Lamm & George Church
TARGET VALUATION: $23,000,000,000
HQ: Dallas, Texas
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