Sword Health, a digital health company known for its AI-powered virtual physical therapy, plans to acquire mental health company Headspace, according to a regulatory filing. The deal, effective Septem…
Emerald AI, a startup that helps AI data centers reduce power use during grid strain, raised $150 million in Series A funding, valuing the company at $1.05 billion. The round, one of the largest for a…
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup, last valued at $4…
Physical AI startups raised $47.4 billion across 521 deals in H1 2026, up nearly 80% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase. Castelion, a hypersonic weapons startup, closed over $1 billion in Se…
California attracted more venture capital than all other 49 U.S. states combined in 2024, with startups in the state raising $366 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from Pitc…
Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it is acquiring OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a major jump from the startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May, with founders receiving $1.5 billion and investors $6 bil…
Robotics startups raised a record $16.3 billion across 492 deals in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook data, as Silicon Valley investors pivot from software to physical AI. Business Insider's inaugural l…
Venture capital investment in social media startups is rebounding in 2026, with PitchBook data showing more than 50 deals totaling $355 million as of July 21, already surpassing 2025's total of $330 m…
OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser announced her departure on Thursday, joining a wave of senior leaders who have left the company since January 2024. PitchBook data shows 25 executives have departed…
Mistral launched Regional Endpoints, Priority Tier, and third-party open-model hosting on August 11, 2026, with EU or US region-pinned inference priced at 10% over list and an SLA-backed tier at 75% o…
PitchBook's Q2 2026 U.S. VC Valuations report shows that 87.5% of U.S. venture dollars in the first half of 2026 went to AI megadeals, with AI companies seeing median valuation step-ups of 2.2x versus…
California's economy grew at a 3.7% annual pace in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest among U.S. states, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The growth was driven by the info…
Europe's IPO pipeline has shrunk from 373 companies at the start of 2025 to 223 by mid-2026, a decline of roughly 40%, according to PitchBook, while US exchanges attract AI and space-related filings. …
Ati Robotics, founded in 2017 by Saurabh Chandra, assembles robots in India with minimal Chinese parts, positioning itself to benefit from a recent US Federal Communications Commission ban on Chinese-…
AI startups captured 81% of the record $297 billion in global venture capital deployed in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook and OECD data, leaving smaller funds, including crypto-focused VCs, competing …
PitchBook data shows $1,786.8 billion in US VC-backed IPO value through July 28, 2026, but SpaceX's June 12 IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation accounts for about $1,770 billion of that total, leaving t…
Silicon Valley venture investors are defending the AI market's frothy valuations as a necessary driver of innovation, with funding in the first half of 2026 reaching $413 billion, surpassing all of 20…
Funding for consumer startups in Southeast Asia has plummeted from US$6 billion in 2022 to US$580 million in the first half of 2026, as investors redirect capital to AI and adjacent sectors, according…
Defense tech startups raised $12.3 billion from venture funds in the first half of 2026, already surpassing the $9.95 billion raised in all of 2025, according to PitchBook data cited by the Financial …
Bots now generate most web traffic for the first time, with Cloudflare reporting automated traffic crossed 50% in June and now accounts for nearly 58% of all webpage requests. A separate report from H…