Starcloud, an orbital-compute developer founded in 2024, raised a $250 million extension to its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, led by Manhattan West Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Ci…
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, has raised approximately $200M in total capital, including a $170M Series A on March 30, 2026, reaching a $1.1B post-money valuation and becoming the fastest Y Combina…
Barclays initiated coverage of Bitdeer Technologies Group with an Overweight rating and a $15 price target, implying roughly 56% upside from the stock's $9.63 trading price, citing the Bitcoin miner's…
Nvidia is in discussions to invest in AI data marketplace Mercor at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth since its Series C round nine months ago. Mercor, which counts OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nv…
LangChain, the AI startup with $125M in Series B funding from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Research Engineer for its LangSmith Engine team in New York, NY or S…
LangChain, the AI startup with $125M in Series B funding from IVC, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer for its AI observability and evals platform…
Prestige venture firms are increasingly securing better prices than other investors in the same funding round through dual valuation deals, a practice that has become pervasive in the current AI-drive…
Anthropic's plan to embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text drew criticism from venture investor Bill Gurley, who argued on August 12th that Anthropic would control both the marking system…
Exa, an applied AI lab that powers search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers, is hiring an ML Research Engineer in Singapore with a salary range of SGD 90k–300k per year. The …
Starcloud, a startup founded on January 1, 2024, is building data centers in orbit to address AI's energy bottleneck, leveraging solar power and declining launch costs. The company raised $170 million…
Decade, a Brazilian AI-assisted wealth advisory founded by former Nubank executives including former CTO Vitor Olivier, emerged from stealth in May 2026 after raising an $85 million seed round, which …
LangChain, the AI agent development platform backed by $125M in Series B funding from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Deployed Engineer (Early Career) in New York…
Exa CEO Will Bryk said on August 3rd that Exa's index now serves 80 billion pages and tracks 1.4 trillion URLs, nearly triple the 500 billion URLs reported in May, with expectations to reach "Google-s…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13–15 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, will feature leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, Flock Safety, Benchmark, Harvey AI, and Cerebras on its main s…
Ollama, the leading platform for accessing open AI models, announced it has raised $88 million from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and other investors. Founded by Docker veterans, Ollama now serves …
Ollama, the 14-person team behind the open-source AI model runner, closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88M. The tool now runs inside 85% of the Fortune 500, with …
Ollama, a 14-person open-source AI infrastructure company, raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million. The tool, which lets developers run…
Benchmark raised its price target on Hut 8 to $165 from $85, nearly doubling its previous estimate, after the Bitcoin miner secured $16.8 billion in contracted lease value across two hyperscale AI dat…
Benchmark partner Peter Fenton predicts open-weight AI will dominate token usage within two years, driven by developer-led adoption and cost pressure. The forecast suggests premium pricing for proprie…
Tencent is preparing to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta's planned acquisition. The move signals Tencent's ambition to enhance i…