Startups 02/23

Razorpay expands offerings with AI-driven payments, moves merchants to native payment orchestration

AI health-care startup OpenEvidence raises funding from Sequoia at $1 billion valuation

How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI

AI recruiting startup Mercor nabs $100M investment at $2B valuation

How AI Helps Companies Think Like Startups

Crunchbase is using AI to predict company funding

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€2.85 million to accelerate AI in drug discovery

Crunchbase launches AI tools to predict where startups are heading, including funding, acquisitions, and IPOs, based on its 17 years of startup data (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)