Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with founders and CEOs of 20 Indian space-tech startups on Friday at Seva Teerth in New Delhi, praising them as the 'Yuva Urja' of India's space sector. The startups, …
Fortinet acquired Virtue AI on August 17, 2026, for an undisclosed sum, folding the startup's agent red-teaming and MCP security tools into its FortiAIGate platform. The deal comes two months after Me…
Fortinet acquired Virtue AI on August 17, 2026, to secure AI agents against attacks, with terms undisclosed and deemed immaterial. Virtue AI, which raised $30 million in April 2025 from Lightspeed Ven…
Ali Hussain's New York AI finance startup Tabs was last valued at about $400 million and had raised around $90 million, according to Hussain in a Crunchbase News profile. The company, founded in 2023,…
Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a pre-money valuation of at least $12 billion, according to Bloomberg, just six months after its $5 billion valuation from a $3…
Oligo, a cybersecurity startup, has raised $60 million in funding to extend its runtime protection technology to AI agents, bringing its total funding to $140 million. The round was led by Ballistic V…
Patronus AI, a frontier lab developing simulation research and infrastructure for human-aligned AGI, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff - Research in San Francisco with a salary of $175k–300k/yr. T…
Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised $600 million through a dedicated co-investment fund to deepen its stakes in AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, closing in December 2025 as part of a br…
Unsloth AI released a native desktop app on Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, that packages its local model training and inference software for Mac, Windows, and Linux, claiming it is the first desktop app …
Celeris-1, a diffusion-based language model from Celeris, topped Artificial Analysis' speed ranking among comparable nonreasoning models, generating 2,157.9 output tokens per second. The independent b…
Satellite manufacturer K2 Space raised $500 million in a Series D round at a $6.8 billion valuation, more than double its previous $3 billion valuation from December 2025. Kleiner Perkins and Iconiq c…
Live shopping startup Whatnot is in talks to raise a new funding round at about a $20 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter, a significant jump from its $11.5 billion valuati…
Nitzan Shapira and Ran Ribenzaft, who sold Epsagon to Cisco for roughly $500 million, raised a $34 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners for Harmony, an AI agent platform that operates…
Epsagon founders Nitzan Shapira and Ran Ribenzaft raised a $34 million seed round for Harmony, an AI workplace service desk that eliminates tickets and portals by processing employee requests inside S…
Celeris, a new AI research lab backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, has released Celeris-1, a language model built on diffusion architecture that claims to generate output 24 times faster than GPT-5…
Celeris launched Celeris-1 on July 27th, a diffusion-based language model API that completes short reasoning calls in milliseconds and generates long responses at 1,664 tokens per second, targeting vo…
European drone startups are raising billions as NATO and European nations pour record funding into unmanned systems, with Helsing's $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation marking the sector…
Reflection AI signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Amsterdam-based cloud provider Nebius, securing access to Nvidia's newest GB300 chips through 2029. The agreement marks Reflection's s…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup at a $2 billion pre-money valuation, with Lightspeed Venture Partners in discussions to lead a ~$200 million round. The …
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in advanced talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed Venture Partners reportedly leading a $200 million round, according …