AI Startups

Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command and control, raised €32 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital with strategic investment from Saab. The company's platform Prevail, which u…

OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively hired over 85 former Salesforce employees in 2026, primarily in sales and marketing roles, as the AI firms shift from research labs to enterprise revenue engines. The poaching spree…

SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in stock on June 16, days after its Nasdaq IPO, marking the largest acquisition in AI developer tooling history. The deal aims to integrate C…

Zeta Labs has brought its AI employee Viktor to Microsoft Teams, extending the product beyond Slack where it already operates in over 20,000 workspaces. Viktor acts as an autonomous team member that reads and writes acro…

Frontier Health, a London startup founded by ex-Palantir healthcare lead Rachel Finegold, raised $16 million in seed funding led by Atomico to deploy its AI agent JUNO for NHS administrative teams. The tool, which saved …

Baseten is finalizing a $1.5bn funding round that values the company at up to $13bn, more than doubling its valuation from January. The San Francisco startup provides software and computing capacity for AI inference, bet…

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched the Talent Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort for engineers and talent leaders building AI-driven recruiting systems. The program aims to address the challenge of noisy recruiting i…

Dream, a sovereign AI infrastructure startup, raised $260 million in a funding round co-led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11, reaching a $3 billion valuation. The company, founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio and …

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, shifting a key model builder from the lab that invented the m…

Original investors in Manus, an AI firm, plan to buy back the company from Meta for $2 billion, according to a report. The deal would reverse Meta's acquisition of the startup and return it to independent ownership.

Yann LeCun warned that AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic face a 'big bubble explosion' due to investor-subsidized operations and insufficiently declining costs. LeCun's own startup, AMI Labs, raised $1 billion for an …

Accenture shares fell after the company reported Q3 new bookings of $19.32 billion, below the $20.66 billion estimate, and issued Q4 revenue guidance of $17.75-$18.4 billion, missing the $18.5 billion consensus. The cons…

The [un]CFO of Unconventional AI, a role created by CEO Naveen Rao, describes building the company's finance, investor strategy, and operations from scratch. The team grew from 14 people to raising $535 million, includin…

Midjourney, known for AI image generation, is building a full-body ultrasound scanner with Butterfly Network and plans to open a spa in San Francisco by late 2027. The scanner uses underwater sensors and a compute cluste…

Pramaana Labs raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to develop an AI system that uses formal verification to ensure accuracy in law, tax, and drug discovery. The startup combines large language models…

At Cannes Lions 2025, NVIDIA partners including Alembic, AWS, Criteo, Higgsfield, KERV.ai and Taboola are showcasing AI-powered advertising and marketing solutions. Alembic uses NVIDIA DGX systems for causal AI at scale,…

Swiss private AI infrastructure startup Prem AI is raising a $100 million Series A round at a target valuation of at least $500 million, according to Bloomberg. The company, led by founder and CEO Simone Giacomelli, help…

Google's accelerator program has supported 2,011 startups across 88 countries over a decade, achieving a 93% survival rate and a collective portfolio valuation of $135.1 billion. The program provides deep technical guida…

Wilco 63 Corporation, a blank-check company sponsored by family office HGM, priced its $200 million IPO at $10 per unit, targeting acquisitions in artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics. The units begin tradin…

Bitzero Holdings Inc., a Canadian data center company backed by Kevin O'Leary, listed its voting shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange under ticker BITZ.U in late December 2025 after raising over $100 million in pri…