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Major investors are increasingly skeptical Anthropic's IPO can achieve a $1.5T valuation after a market selloff; one says it could be closer to $1T Wall Street Journal
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Unity has held talks to be acquired by a consortium including Silver Lake, which owns 8% of Unity, and Saudi Arabia's PIF, discussing a ~$25B valuation Reuters
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NY-based Kalepa, whose AI platform supports insurance underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management, raised a $75M Series B led by Updata at a $470M valuation Reuters
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Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last public round last year Business Insider
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Sources and company memo: Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC has put its Shanghai IPO on hold as China tightens share sale approvals; YMTC sought to raise ~$4.9B Reuters

Wall Street Journal ·

Major investors are increasingly skeptical Anthropic's IPO can achieve a $1.5T valuation after a market selloff; one says it could be closer to $1T

The AI giant could need to set a significantly lower-than-expected valuation, investors say

Aaron Holmes / The Information ·

Cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, up from $12B in June

Last week my colleagues Jemima and Valida scooped that Cyera, a five-year-old cloud security startup, was mulling a new fundraise …

Business Insider ·

Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last public round last year

AI startup Thinking Machines Lab is set to close a fresh round of funding as soon as this week.

Manya Saini / Reuters ·

NY-based Kalepa, whose AI platform supports insurance underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management, raised a $75M Series B led by Updata at a $470M valuation

Insurance startup Kalepa said on Thursday it had raised $75 million at a $470 million valuation, as investors bet that AI solutions …

Reuters ·

Unity has held talks to be acquired by a consortium including Silver Lake, which owns 8% of Unity, and Saudi Arabia's PIF, discussing a ~$25B valuation

Gaming software provider Unity Software (U.N) has held talks to be acquired by a consortium of investors including private …

Reuters ·

Marc Lore's Wonder Group files confidentially for a US IPO, after raising $650M at a $9B pre-money valuation in July and acquiring Grubhub for $650M in 2025

Wonder Group, a food-delivery startup led by former Walmart executive Marc Lore, said on Thursday it had confidentially filed for a US IPO …

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg ·

Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March

Defense tech startup set to acquire Echodyne Corp., which sells radar sensors to government and commercial customers.

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal ·

Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M+ in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing

CEO Keller Cliffton says the company's skyrocketing valuation is a sign that autonomous delivery has finally gained wider acceptance

Reuters ·

Sources and company memo: Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC has put its Shanghai IPO on hold as China tightens share sale approvals; YMTC sought to raise ~$4.9B

Flash-memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co has put its Shanghai IPO on hold, according to a company memo and three people …

Cristian Dina / The Next Web ·

Berlin-based Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, as it opens its B2B payments infrastructure to AI agents

Claude, ChatGPT and in-house AI agents can now run business payments through Pliant. The Berlin fintech, past $100M in recurring revenue, will expand in North America.

Bloomberg ·

Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise ~$5B at a ~$50B valuation; the AI drug discovery startup last raised $2.1B in May

Alphabet Inc.'s Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise roughly $5 billion in new funds to support its efforts to use artificial intelligence …

Bloomberg ·

Singapore-based, Nigeria-focused payments startup OPay halts its $300M US IPO just hours after pricing it due to inquiries from a Chinese regulator

China made eleventh-hour inquiries into OPay Ltd., prompting the Nigeria-focused payments company to halt its $300 million initial public offering …

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·

Revolut hits a $115B valuation, up from $75B in November 2025, after a secondary share sale led by Glade Brook, Coatue, and others, as it plans a US bank launch

Revolut's investors have completed a secondary share sale that values the British fintech at $115 billion …

Naman Ramachandran / Variety ·

EloElo Group, the company behind Indian microdrama app Story TV, raised an $80M Series C co-led by NBCUniversal and Hornbill, bringing its total raised to $130M

NBCUniversal and India-focused investment firm Hornbill Capital have co-led an $80 million Series C round in EloElo Group …

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE ·

Sentra, which helps restrict and monitor data access for AI agents, raised a $150M Series C led by Capital One Ventures, taking its total funding to $250M+

Data security startup Sentra Inc. today revealed it has raised $150 million in new funding to expand its platform for controlling …

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes ·

Traversal, which provides AI agents for site reliability engineering, raised $120M co-led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Khosla at a $1B valuation

Traversal has raised $120 million in funding to help companies like American Express and Pepsi troubleshoot site outages.

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg ·

AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; source: Fal hit $800M in annualized revenue earlier in 2026

Fal, an AI inference startup that hosts image, video and audio models for creators and developers, has doubled its valuation to $16 billion in a new round of funding.

Aditi Bharade / Business Insider ·

Larridin, which helps companies track how AI affects employee output and identifies areas for better AI adoption, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures

Companies went all in on AI this year, and are now reckoning with heavy bills. One startup wants to get under the hood and figure out which ones are worth it.

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch ·

Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation

Whether developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, or built on open-source alternatives, current AI models share a critical limitation …

John Werner / Forbes ·

Tutor Intelligence, which trains robot foundation models and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking its total funding to $117M

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … When you look at some of what robotics companies are doing today …

Rahul Raj / EU-Startups ·

The Hague-based Braid, whose API lets companies sell eSIM mobile plans under their own brand via 600+ carriers, raised a ~$38M Series A led by Octopus Ventures

Braid, a Dutch company that enables enterprises to launch their own branded mobile connectivity, has raised €34.13 million ($38 million) in a Series A funding round.

Meir Orbach / CTech ·

Bites, whose AI tools deliver personalized training to frontline workers via WhatsApp, SMS, Slack, and other channels, raised a $40M Series A led by PeakSpan

The platform turns company procedures into short, branded videos delivered through WhatsApp, Teams and other familiar channels.

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune ·

Casap, whose AI tools automate dispute and anti-fraud operations for banks, raised a $56M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90M

Credit card fraud is hardly new, but the nature of that fraud is undergoing a major shift. In the past, nearly all scams …

Will Maddox / Axios ·

Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius

Midstream Health, an AI financial system for hospitals, raised a $20 million Series A round to expand its platform …

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare ·

AI-powered medical search engine Vera Health, which says it is used by 800,000+ clinicians in 190 countries, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures

Artificial Intelligence funding round series A venture capital (VC)

Tim Keary / Forbes ·

Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … The SaaSpocalypse has become one of the most controversial topics in enterprise tech.

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune ·

Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M

When Marcelle Flowers' staff told her that two students were waiting at the counter of her Sacramento plumbing shop, she grabbed her wallet.

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider ·

Hyperbolic, which lets companies rent AI compute across ~30 neoclouds, raised a $30M Series A-1 led by Lip-Bu Tan's Walden Catalyst; it has raised $50M to date

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is backing an infrastructure startup that has raised $30 million to help companies rent compute across hundreds of different AI cloud providers.

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal ·

Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation

The AI-for-manufacturers company has raised $66 million at a $400 million valuation

TechNode ·

Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B

Chinese brain-computer interface startup NeuroXess has raised RMB 700 million in Series B funding, co-led by SDIC Juli, Shenzhen Capital Group and Qinzhi Capital.

Bloomberg ·

Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation

Cohere Inc., an artificial intelligence model maker, is in the process of raising a large funding round at a $20.5 billion valuation …

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios ·

Collective, which uses AI to automate bookkeeping for solo business owners, raised a $40M Series B and $60M in nondilutive capital from GC's Customer Value Fund

Collective, a financial services platform for solo business owners, secured $100 million in financing, CEO Hooman Radfar tells Axios.

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters ·

Serval, which offers AI agents for enterprise IT operations like access management, raised $150M led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in December 2025

Serval raised $150 million in a Sequoia-led round at a $3 billion valuation, as the enterprise automation company seeks …

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg ·

Wabi, which is building an AI assistant that integrates into group chats and can take actions like booking appointments, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation

AI assistant startup Wabi Inc. has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation to build out its software that lets groups …

Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg ·

Jio Platforms adds $36B in market value in two trading sessions, hitting a $144B market cap, up from its ~$108B IPO valuation, after India's biggest-ever IPO

Jio Platforms Ltd. has added almost $36 billion in market value in two trading sessions, extending its blistering run …

Lauren McCarthy / New York Times ·

Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation, up from a $22B valuation after raising $1B in May, its last raise before an IPO

The prediction market raised $1 billion in a new funding round and landed a market value almost double that of rival Polymarket.

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios ·

Circuit Mind, which uses AI to automate electronics and circuit design, raised $25M, including an $18.5M Series A led by Norwest, and plans a US relocation

Circuit Mind, a startup developing AI software for electronics design, raised $25 million, CEO Tomide Adesanmi tells Axios Pro exclusively.

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg ·

A profile of Nscale CEO Josh Payne, who is proceeding with plans for a US IPO that sources say is targeting a $30B valuation despite some investor pushback

Sheryl Sandberg says the 32-year-old executive reminds her of Mark Zuckerberg. Josh Payne must now take his startup public at a tumultuous moment for the AI industry.

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg ·

Seoul-based AI chip startup FuriosaAI raised a $620M Series D at a $2.9B valuation, up from $735M in 2025; South Korea's National Growth Fund contributed $280M

South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI quadrupled its valuation to $2.9 billion in a fresh funding round, bolstering its bid to challenge the likes of Nvidia Corp.

Rocket Drew / The Information ·

Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike

Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch …

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg ·

Chinese PCB maker Dongshan rises on its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$1.3B in an IPO, below its $3B goal, at a $30B valuation, amid a tricky IPO market

Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co. shares erased an opening slide to trade higher in their first day of trading in Hong Kong …

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg ·

AI and cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security raised $400M led by Bessemer at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January, for $830M in total funding

Upwind Security, a San Francisco-based startup offering cybersecurity for artificial intelligence and cloud applications …

Financial Times ·

TPG is in talks to acquire UK-based Ark Data Centres, which operates 27 data centers in the UK and Belgium, from Elliott Management at a ~$5B valuation

US private capital group in talks with Elliott over what would be among the booming sector's biggest deals this year

Priyanka Salve / CNBC ·

Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom and digital services company, jumps 21.4% in its trading debut, after raising ~$3.2B in the country's largest-ever IPO

Jio Platforms' shares rose 21.4% on their trading debut Wednesday after a record initial public offering that was lapped up by retail as well as institutional investors.

Valida Pau / The Information ·

Chipmaker Onsemi is in talks to acquire 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for ~$1B; PitchBook: Ferric last raised a $32.1M Series C in December 2024

Semiconductor component maker Onsemi has been discussing an acquisition of 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for close to $1 billion …

Reuters ·

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple raised up to CA$425M led by GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$13.8B, up from CA$10B in 2025

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Canadian financial services company Wealthsimple said on Tuesday it had raised up to C$425 million ($302.5 million), taking its valuation …

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes ·

Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation

Infisical is helping companies like Airbus and Volkswagen use agents without handing over their private credentials.

Bloomberg ·

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1B+ led by Avenir and Lux Capital at a ~$20B valuation, up from $11.5B earlier in 2026

Physical Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence software to power robots for real-world tasks …

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire ·

Avante, which builds an AI platform to help companies manage employee healthcare and other benefits, raised a $30M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2024

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene.

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch ·

Neocloud General Compute, which specializes in bare-metal infrastructure, raised a $100M Series A led by Blackbird and Abstract at an $800M post-money valuation

CoreWeave, a publicly traded neocloud that rents out computing power for AI, has seen its stock price fall to a 12-month low …

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg ·

Hyphenate, which develops reinforcement-learning-driven AI agents to automate corporate finance tasks, raised a $45M Series A, taking its total funding to $54M

Hyphenate Inc. has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, securing capital for an effort …

Financial Times ·

UK stealth AI startup 22one, which is building law enforcement tools, hit a nearly $400M valuation after raising funds from Sequoia, Lux, and others

Steven Richardson has raised funds from investors including Sequoia for company providing tools for police forces

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg ·

Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation

Crypto firm Redotpay is considering filing confidentially for a US initial public offering by year-end, according to people familiar …

Cohere ·

Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing

For nearly two years, one comforting idea has shaped how companies and government contractors adopt open-weight AI models that anyone can download and run.

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune ·

NYC-based Nevis, which uses AI to automate paperwork for financial advisors, raised a $70M Series B led by EQT Ventures, a source says at a $500M valuation

Americans want more financial advisors, but every day there are fewer to go around. One New York-based startup wants to help ease …

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg ·

Bedrock Robotics, which makes driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation

Bedrock Robotics Inc., a startup making driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, hit a $4.1 billion valuation in its latest funding round.

Bloomberg ·

Filing: Chinese PCB maker Dongshan raised ~$1.3B in Hong Kong's biggest IPO in nearly two months, pricing shares at ~$11, or 35% below its Friday Shenzhen close

Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co. a printed circuit board maker, raised about HK$9.9 billion ($1.3 billion) …

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare ·

Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark

Applied artificial intelligence company Baba secured $40 million in series A funding to modernize the Medicare and Medicaid experience.

Ryan Lawler / Axios ·

CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer spend management, cards, and bill payment tools to SMB customers, raised a $21.9M Series A led by LGVP

CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer cards and bill-pay tools to their SMB customers, has raised $21.9 million …

Torsten Slok / Apollo Global Management ·

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens

Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

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