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TetraGen Robotics, a Winnipeg-based autonomous welding robotics company, has raised $1.8 million CAD in an oversubscribed seed round led by Calgary's StepChange Capital, with participation from Vancouver's Emend Vision F…
Skild AI, a Pittsburgh-based robotics startup founded in 2023 by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, has raised over $2.2 billion in total funding, with a $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank and joined by NVIDIA's NVentur…
Stoa Markets, founded by Berat Celik, Eren Berke Saglam, and Kaan Yigit, launched on July 31 a request-for-quotation marketplace for institutions to buy and sell GPUs and AI servers through vetted counterparties, reporti…
Lumilens exited stealth with over $700 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $5.51 billion, and announced it is shipping its first scale-out optical interconnect product to a hyperscale customer under a mul…
Stoa Markets (YC S26), founded by Eren, Berat, and Kaan, launched a marketplace for new and used GPUs and AI servers, aiming to standardize hardware trading and provide resale evidence for lenders. The platform received …
Lambda, the AI cloud infrastructure company, closed a $1 billion syndicated senior secured credit facility led by J.P. Morgan, nearly quadrupling its previous $275 million facility from August 2025, to finance next-gener…
Point2 Technology, an AI data center interconnect specialist, raised $136 million in Series B funding led by LB Investment, with participation from Arm and existing investors Nvidia, Molex, and Bosch Ventures. The compan…
AI companies are relying on investor funding to cover the gap between high infrastructure costs and low subscription revenue, according to an analysis of the industry's financial sustainability. The piece warns that with…
Discovered Materials raised $9 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners and angel investors including Paul Graham, to use AI agents to find thermall…
Corma, a Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based startup founded in 2025, emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to build AI models for …
Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that discover semiconductor materials in months instead of decades. Co-founded by materials scien…
UBS analysis shows OpenAI and Anthropic could account for more than 48% of Google Cloud's revenue by 2027, up from a projected 27% in 2026, raising concerns about Alphabet's infrastructure bet. Google Cloud's Q4 2025 rev…
Echovane Inc., an AI-native market research automation startup, has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Titan Capital and Neon Fund. The company, founded by Smriti Gupta, Vipul Nair, and Himadri Roy, …
Discovered Materials, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners to use AI agents to discover new semiconductor materials that can reduce heat in chips. The company…
Isselthal industries, a software engineering and AI/data science agency, reported that as of mid-2026 it had not met its April and July milestones for securing an EXIST grant and a concrete product, though it succeeded i…
Erebor Bank, the digital national bank co-founded by Oculus founder and Anduril Industries chief Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise approximately $1.5 billion at a valuation of at least $8 billion, nearly doubling its v…
More than 80 developer teams gathered at the National Incubation Centre (NIC) Islamabad on August 8–9 for the AI Seekho Builders Day Hackathon 2026, organized by Google Developer Group (GDG) Islamabad in collaboration wi…
Fidji Simo, former CEO of Instacart and former top executive at OpenAI, has launched ChronicleBio, a startup using AI to analyze blood and segment patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) into more …
Scott Galloway and Ed Elson debate the bull and bear cases for the stock market at record highs, highlighting the market's dependence on cash-burning AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic and the fragility of the AI tra…
Germany recorded 3,053 tech start-up foundations in the first half of 2026, a 52 percent increase over the second half of 2025 and the highest six-month total on record, according to a study by the German Startups Associ…