Funding rounds, fund news, and where startup money is flowing.
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Reuters ·
Silver Lake and Intel (INTC.O)-backed chipmaker Altera is preparing for an initial public offering that could raise over $2 billion as early as 2026 …
Lucinda Shen / Axios ·
Xapien, an AI background check and due diligence company, raised $56 million in Series B funding led by Spectrum Equity, CEO Chris Green tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Mark Chediak / Bloomberg ·
A startup that builds off-grid power systems for data centers said it raised $120 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital, an investor in artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic PBC.
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal ·
NEA, Atreides and Jim Clark are among investors putting $875 million into firm making chips designed for fast running of AI models
Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·
Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension round that has doubled its valuation …
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu ·
Arlequin AI has secured Series A funding to develop its topological neural network architecture and expand the deployment of AI tools …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times ·
Tech investors are rediscovering the kind of long-shot sci-fi bets that helped build Silicon Valley.
Bloomberg ·
Grab Holdings Ltd., the biggest ride-hailing and food-delivery firm in Southeast Asia, is in talks to buy a majority stake in Singapore-based buy …
Bloomberg ·
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is slated to lead a $300 million investment in AI training and benchmarking startup UniPat AI …
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media ·
CEO Keith Peiris took Lightfield from a painful pivot to 5,000 business customers, 400% net dollar retention, and a Series A led by a16z.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
As AI agents gain access to the same sensitive corporate data and systems as human workers while operating at machine speed, enterprises are prone to new security risks.
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune ·
Stablecoins have made it exceptionally easy to move money across borders instantaneously. The problem that remains for users …
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times ·
The round was led by Wellington Management, a firm known for investing in start-ups on the path toward potential initial public offerings.
Chris Metinko / Axios ·
Euno, an enterprise AI context platform, raised a $23 million Series A led by N47, Euno CEO Sarah Levy tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg ·
Legal tech startup Harvey is now valued at $15.6 billion after raising $550 million in a new funding round aimed at powering efforts to build its own AI models.
Ryan Lawler / Axios ·
Savvy Wealth, which provides tech and back-office infrastructure for independent financial advisors, raised $100 million in Series C funding …
The Information ·
Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut …
John Koetsier / Forbes ·
Figure AI pulled the wraps off Index last week. It's a billion-dollar bet on real-world data for robot AI training …
Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg ·
Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. has raised $2 billion in a new round of funding that vaulted its valuation to $48 billion.
Bloomberg ·
Ramp is in early talks with investors for a new round of funding at a roughly $60 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the efforts …
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch ·
Silicon Valley is known for embracing the ethos of "move fast and break things." Poseidon Aerospace's co-founder and CEO David Zagaynov just wants to move things fast.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg ·
Celero Communications, a maker of networking chips, has raised $275 million in a funding round that values the startup at more than $3 billion …
Micah Barkley / Bloomberg ·
Healthcare automation startup Forus has raised $150 million at a $3 billion valuation just months after completing a previous funding round.
Ryan Lawler / Axios ·
Blee, a marketing compliance software startup, raised $27 million in seed and Series A financing, founder and CEO Guy Shahar tells Axios exclusively.
Adam Satariano / New York Times ·
Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
Bloomberg ·
UForce, a London-based drone startup, is in discussions to raise new financing at a valuation of about $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg ·
Shein Global Holdings Ltd. has lost about $5 billion in market value since its initial public offering as it finished one of the worst opening weeks …
Reuters ·
Indian space tech startup Pixxel said on Monday it had raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Singapore state investor Temasek …
Emily Forlini / Fortune ·
OpenAI has changed several evaluation benchmarks for its GPT-6 Astra model since first publishing a blog post announcement mid-afternoon on Sept. 3.
Moneycontrol ·
The downround, which marks a nearly 70% correction from Slice's earlier valuation, comes after funding talks with Accel …
Eve Bender / MobiHealthNews ·
The financing includes a $90 million Series C equity round and $130 million in debt facilities.
Echo Wang / Reuters ·
Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing days …
Bloomberg ·
Nscale, a cloud computing firm focused on artificial intelligence, is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion …
Bloomberg ·
Moonshot AI is considering raising up to $5 billion in its planned Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this year, people familiar with the matter said …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg ·
The company, which helps divide AI tasks among different chips, raised $300 million in its latest round
Bloomberg ·
Crusoe, a cloud-computing provider and data center developer doing business with OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. …
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg ·
Health and fitness ring-maker Oura Inc. filed for an initial public offering, showing soaring revenue as well as increasing losses.
The Information ·
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI developer led by ex-OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is in talks to raise at least $1 billion …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
Ultrahuman, an Indian startup best known for making smart rings, has raised $70 million in a new funding round that includes backing …
Meir Orbach / CTech ·
The Israeli cloud security company was valued at $1.5 billion when it raised $250 million in January, and has since attracted fresh backing …
Pragyan Kalita / Reuters ·
PlusAI has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check firm Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp (TVA.O) …
Anil Dash ·
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it's not "venture capital" anymore.
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg ·
Israeli cybersecurity startup Guardio raised funds from investors including Assaf Rappaport, the founder of cloud security firm Wiz …
Iain Martin / Forbes ·
A little-known company called Fluidstack has become a test bed for Google's plans to sell its own AI chip.
Juro Osawa / The Information ·
Moonshot AI, whose Kimi K3 open-source model has become a global hit, has filed confidentially an application for a Hong Kong initial public offering …
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch ·
When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether …
Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal ·
The company, valued at more than $100 million, uses agentic AI to block threats
Ian Thomas / CNBC ·
Despite recent advancements in oncology, the branch of medicine focused on the study, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer …
Chris Metinko / Axios ·
Conveo, which helps big brands understand market trends, raised a $50 million Series A led by DST Global, Conveo CEO Dieter De Mesmaeker tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal ·
Founded just last year, the startup already has 650 employees and is expanding its forward-deployed engineering teams around the world
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team …
Bloomberg ·
Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. is set to close a new round of funding that would vault its valuation to about $47 billion, according to people familiar with the efforts.
Monique Mulima / Bloomberg ·
SB Energy Inc., a data center firm backed by SoftBank Group Corp., filed for a US initial public offering to fund …
Anna Tong / Forbes ·
Twenty three year-old Spencer Mateega pivoted his YC startup into the fastest unicorn in the accelerator's history, fueling …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information ·
Developers and chip designers are increasingly upbeat about the benefits of using AI to supercharge the process of designing and optimizing AI chips …
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News ·
Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
Unacademy, once one of India's most valuable edtech startups, has been acquired by rival upGrad at a valuation of just over $200 million …
Bloomberg ·
Salesforce Inc. is investing in human resources software company HiBob as part of a more than $160 million funding round that values …
Jing Yang / The Information ·
Shares of Chinese online fashion giant Shein ended flat on its first day of trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange …
Anthropic ·
On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems.