Tech Pulse
- Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
- Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
- Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
- Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic
- Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B
