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June.ai Technologies Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to modernize enterprise software environments, launched today with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Time Ventures, with participation from SV Angel…
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp celebrated a 93% year-over-year revenue surge to $1.94 billion in the second quarter ended June 30, beating analyst expectations of $1.801 billion, as the company's stock jumped more t…
Bending Spoons, the Milanese tech acquirer, announced the purchase of Airtable, the database and workflow startup, for $1.2 billion net of cash, a steep discount from its previous $11 billion valuation. The deal excludes…
SageOx, a startup betting on human-AI coworker teams, raised $15 million in 15 days, from the first investor call on March 12 to a term sheet on March 26, based on team trust and radical transparency rather than a polish…
A developer with 18 years in technology, including six as a CTO, shares lessons from co-founding CatechLabs, where the focus has shifted from building software to building a company. The developer emphasizes that while A…
Cicero, Inc., the legal entity behind AI sales-coaching platform Othello, disclosed a $6.85 million equity round from 35 investors in a Form D filed with the SEC on August 3rd, with CEO Jared Zelman signing the filing on…
Emerald AI founder and CEO Varun Sivaram disclosed $90,229,639 sold toward a planned $150,000,000 equity offering in a Form D filed August 3, 2026, leaving $59,770,361 to sell. The filing lists Sivaram as chief executive…
Exa CEO Will Bryk said on August 3rd that Exa's index now serves 80 billion pages and tracks 1.4 trillion URLs, nearly triple the 500 billion URLs reported in May, with expectations to reach "Google-scale" by early 2027.…
Buildbox, a two-person San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, launched on August 3rd an analytics layer that detects AI agent failures invisible in standard evaluations and traces, such as users repea…
Higgsfield AI, led by co-founders Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, announced a $1 million global competition for AI-generated short films on August 3rd, with the first-place winner receiving $500,000, second place $200,0…
The FFmpeg project thanked AI startup Cursor.ai on Sunday for contributing tokens to several developers, supporting their ongoing work on FFmpeg including development and code review. The amount of credits was not disclo…
Intelligence, the San Francisco-based maker of DesignArena, raised a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures, according to co-founder and CEO Grace Li. The startup, which uses human rankings from its free product t…
DesignArena, an AI tool that uses human feedback to rank AI-generated media, has raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Conviction, A*, Valkyrie, and others. The company, Intel…
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo, who left her role as CEO of AGI Deployment in July 2026 to focus on her chronic illness POTS, has launched ChronicleBio, a startup that has raised $15 million and collected over 3,500 …
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told 6,000 founders at Y Combinator's Startup School that the company's founding algorithm was exactly wrong, yet NVIDIA grew into a $5 trillion company. Huang recounted how a $5 million Sega cont…
Zenity, co-founded by Ben Kliger and Michael Bargury, raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest, with participation from Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, and e…
Elon Musk is recruiting skilled trades workers for SpaceX's AI data center buildout, asking applicants to email three bullet points demonstrating exceptional ability to datacenters@spacex.com. The push follows SpaceX's a…
Nvidia is expanding into AI infrastructure financing by providing minimum revenue guarantees to neocloud operators, a move that positions the company as both supplier and financier. According to research from SemiAnalysi…
Hoplite, a YC S26 startup founded by Bence and Ryan, launched a platform that deploys coding agents in the cloud, porting local setups including sessions, memories, and MCP servers. The founders built a custom agent harn…
Jeff Bezos, through his investment firm Bezos Expeditions, has backed Cambridge-based AI startup CuspAI in a $450 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates, valuing the company a…