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AlphaSense, an AI company backed by Google and Goldman Sachs, raises $150M at a $2.5B valuation.

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AlphaSense has broadened its client base to encompass the majority of companies within the S&P 500 index and virtually every enterprise featured in the Dow 50. AlphaSense, a business-oriented artificial intelligence (AI) platform specializing in business intelligence and search capabilities, has proudly announced the successful conclusion of a $150 million Series E funding round. This pivotal funding round was spearheaded by Bond and boasted participation from Google’s parent company, Alphabet’s investment arm, CapitalG, in addition to esteemed financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and Viking Global. In this latest funding round, the company ’s valuation has surged from $1.7 billion, which was its appraisal when it secured $225 million in its Series D funding round in June 2023, to an impressive $2.5 billion. AlphaSense ’s robust market positioning and sustained growth can be attributed to the recent surge in the field of artificial intelligence. Whi...

Top-five most Googled cryptocurrencies worldwide in 2022

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Bitcoin remains the most-searched cryptocurrency in 2022 by far thanks to its top-brand status and being in a league of its own when it comes to decentralization. Cryptocurrencies have suffered immensely in 2022 from the onslaught of a hawkish Federal Reserve and the implosions of crypto platforms FTX, Terra, Celsius Network, and others. What were the most-searched cryptocurrencies in 2022? Notably, the market valuation of all the cryptocurrencies combined has dropped 70% year-to-date (YTD) to nearly $770 billion, signifying massive capitulations by traders and investors alike. The waning demand has also pushed the internet requests fo6r the keyword "buy cryptocurrency" to their lowest since February 2020, according to Google Trends. Interest in the  the keyword "buy cryptocurrency" over the past five years. Source: Google Trends Nonetheless, the latest Accenture's 2022 Global Consumer Payments report shows that retail interest in cryptocurrencies remains high ...