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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…
AI startups are increasingly hiring attractive social media influencers instead of technical experts to promote their products, according to a report from The Information. The trend has led to a 40% increase in influence…
Tangible, a robotics startup that originally built the Eggie humanoid robot, has pivoted to building an AI foundation model for robotics and is now scraping over 1 million hours of POV video from the internet, according …
ChipAgents, a two-year-old startup, announced at DAC in Long Beach, California, that it closed an extended Series A round, adding $60 million to the $50 million raised in February 2026, bringing total funding to $134 mil…
Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm known for investments in Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to invest in aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, and robotics. Littlehale, …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness lost roughly 67% of its value in July, forcing it to sell a $16 billion public equity portfolio to Citadel at a 10% discount to meet margin calls from p…
Reforged Labs, a generative AI platform for mobile gaming creative strategy and performance marketing, is shutting down after three years, CEO Robert Huynh announced. The company, founded in 2023, served clients includin…
Zenity, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, raised $125 million in a Series C funding round led by Norwest, with new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures. The company, which …
Horizon3.ai announced a $250 million Series E funding round at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, tripling its previous $650 million valuation from its Series D round just over a year ago. The oversubscribed round was co-…
DeepX, a South Korean edge AI chipmaker, has secured new funding at roughly four times its previous valuation, according to Bloomberg, signaling a semiconductor arms race with implications for crypto mining and on-chain …
D-Matrix acquired Wallaroo.ai on August 3, 2026, to orchestrate AI inference across heterogeneous chips, marking its second acquisition in four months. The deal brings Wallaroo's platform, IP, and engineering staff to d-…
Horizon3.ai Inc., a provider of autonomous security solutions, announced it raised $250 million in a Series E round at a valuation of more than $2 billion, with plans to expand into Australia and Singapore. The company's…
Zenity, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup, raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures, to expand its AI agent …
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 the other 43 VC-backe…
Horizon3.ai closed a $250 million Series E funding round, valuing the San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup at roughly $2 billion, up from above $750 million after its $100 million Series D in mid-2025. The company's…
British semiconductor startup Olix, founded by 25-year-old Thiel fellow James Dacombe in 2024, has raised $312 million in a Series B round to build specialized AI inference chips and take on Nvidia. The round includes in…
Ant Group's embodied AI division Robbyant has begun seeking external funding, aiming to raise about 1.5 billion yuan (US$222 million) in its first round and complete a second round by the end of 2024, according to Chines…
Yellow.ai, an enterprise AI agent platform founded in 2016, agreed to go public via a merger with Nasdaq-listed blank-check company Bluerock Acquisition Corp., valuing the combined company at roughly $550 million in pro …
OLIX, a London AI chip developer founded by 25-year-old James Dacombe, raised $312 million in a Series B round led by Fundomo, valuing the company at $3.3 billion before its first processor ships. The round, announced Au…
Olix Computing, a UK-based AI chip startup founded in 2024, closed a $312 million Series B at a $3.3 billion post-money valuation, marking Europe's largest semiconductor funding round. The company, which rebranded from F…