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The Renaissance IPO ETF (NYSEARCA:IPO), which tracks the largest US-listed IPOs from the past three years, is positioned to gain exposure to the 2026 IPO class, including SpaceX's June listing that raised $86 billion, wi…
Payment data from Ramp shows that Anthropic's most advanced AI model, Fable 5, accounts for only 11% of total enterprise spending on Anthropic models two months after launch, breaking the previous trend of customers quic…
Quintessent, a Santa Barbara, California-based photonics startup led by Alan Liu, raised a $40 million Series A led by Cycle Capital and began sampling its QCOMB-1310-08-08-200-EVK, an eight-wavelength quantum-dot comb l…
Naïve has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding to build autonomous company infrastructure, including Vetta, a production-ready harness for long-horizon AI agents that only bills while working, saving progress and sle…
Payloop, an Austin-based AI margin software company co-founded by CEO John Kim, has sold $4,533,992 of a planned $6,533,992 equity round, leaving $2 million unsold, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Securities an…
Lambda, the San Francisco AI cloud infrastructure provider founded by brothers Stephen and Michael Balaban, is in talks to raise up to $3 billion at a valuation of $12 billion or more, according to Bloomberg, positioning…
Stripe Inc. agreed to pay $7.5 billion to acquire OpenRouter, a platform that routes API requests across more than 400 AI models from over 80 providers, a price roughly 5.7 times OpenRouter's $1.3 billion valuation from …
Lambda, the GPU cloud computing company, is in talks to raise up to $3 billion in new funding as it prepares for a potential IPO in the second half of 2026. The company has raised approximately $2.36 billion in total equ…
Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion at a valuation of up to $12 billion or more, a round that could set the stage for an initial public offering …
Nvidia Corp. is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI Inc. at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, a more than 50% jump from the $20 billion valuation the AI search startup finalized about a year ago, according to The Inform…
Optical interconnect startup Quintessent Inc. raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Cycle Capital, with participation from Goldman Sachs, Susquehanna International Group, Osage University Partners, and others, to…
Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value the AI developer platform at $13 billion or more, nearly tripling its $4.5 billion 2023 valuation, according to Business Insider. The company has retained a bank to gauge…
OneTriangle, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company, launched hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash inference on August 24 at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, with CEO Hannah Chung claiming it is the "f…
Hugging Face, the AI developer platform that raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation in August 2023, is reportedly exploring a sale at a price around $13 billion, nearly triple its previous valuation. The platfor…
Generalist, the robot-model developer founded by Pete Florence, Andrew Barry, and Andy Zeng, has sold $198.2 million of a new equity offering less than three months after closing a $400 million financing, according to a …
Greptile, an AI code review startup backed by Benchmark, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, and Initialized, is hiring a Growth Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $130k–190k/yr. The company, which reviews 5B lines of cod…
Generalist AI, a San Mateo startup founded in 2024 by former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni, has raised approximately $200 million in fresh funding led by 8VC, bringing its total capital to over $650 million and val…
Dogotix, the humanoid robotics unit of XPeng Motors, raised more than $900 million in its initial funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to over $6.3 billion. The company plans to use the funds to develop hardw…
General Intuition, a New York-based startup building foundation models for generalized AI agents that operate in physical space, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from Valor Equity Partners…
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15 about the future of programming and AI's impact on software development. Replit, which has a $9 billion…