AI chip startup Etched raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the company at $10.3 billion, doubling its valuation from $5 billion in December. The company, which builds chips…
Two-year-old AI inference chip startup Etched is raising back-to-back funding rounds at $10.3 billion and $20 billion valuations simultaneously, with Sequoia leading the lower round and Jane Street le…
AI chip startup Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, doubling its valuation in seven months, co-founder and…
AI chip startup Etched has raised $300 million in a Series C round at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, bringing total funding to $1.1 billion, with $1 billion in pre-orders already secured. The roun…
Khosla Ventures, the first outside investor in OpenAI, is in talks to raise up to $5.5 billion across a new set of funds, according to Bloomberg. The record raise would allocate about $1 billion for s…
Glow, an AI security startup founded by ex-Meta VP Roi Tiger, emerged from stealth with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. The company uses AI agents to prevent malicious software fr…
Glow emerged from stealth with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation to advance a prevention-first approach to endpoint security. The funding round was led by Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Green…
Glow Security Inc. exited stealth mode as a unicorn after raising $180 million in Series A funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. The AI-native endpoint security startup, co-led by Sequoia, Cyberstarts,…
Hugging Face confirmed in a July 2026 blog post that it detected and responded to an intrusion into its production infrastructure driven entirely by an autonomous AI agent system, marking the first kn…
Harmonic AI, the $1.45 billion formal reasoning startup co-founded by Robinhood's Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim, argues that AI benchmarks should be human-defined rather than generated by AI systems, a s…
Anthropic raised $580M in a Series B in late 2022 with no product, using a 10-slide deck that led with safety and the team, and a waitlist of 2,500 companies. The company now has $47B in annualized re…
OpenEvidence, the Miami-based AI platform for healthcare professionals, is reportedly considering raising $200 million at a $20 billion valuation, a nearly 6x increase from its $3.5 billion valuation …
Global startup investment hit $510 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing the $440 billion full-year record set in 2025, with over 70% of capital going to AI-focused companies, according to Cru…
Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, to scale Carebricks, a platform that lets health systems build and deploy their own clinical AI agents. The …
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, to deploy AI agents inside hospitals through its Carebricks platform. The startup grew revenue 20-fold…
Bunkerhill Health, a startup deploying AI agents to handle hospital tasks such as reducing wait times and paperwork backlogs, has raised $55 million in total funding, including a $25 million Series B …
Nebius Group has agreed to sell more than $1 billion in computing power to Reflection AI, a US-based AI research lab founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Anto…
Venture capitalists are growing skeptical of AI wrapper startups—companies that build products on top of foundation models like OpenAI's GPT without proprietary data or workflow lock-in. The skepticis…
Apple is preparing for a potential downturn in the AI industry, which is currently fueled by massive debt and unsustainable spending on data center infrastructure. The company anticipates a slowdown i…
Sequoia partner David Cahn estimates the AI industry must earn $3 trillion to justify $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending by 2026, while Apollo economist Torsten Slok warns that a slower payoff c…