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Skan AI, co-founded by Avinash Misra and Manish Garg, has raised $63 million in a Series C round co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, bringing its total funding to approximately $120 million. The co…
PitchBook's Q2 2026 U.S. VC Valuations report shows that 87.5% of U.S. venture dollars in the first half of 2026 went to AI megadeals, with AI companies seeing median valuation step-ups of 2.2x versus 1.6x for non-AI fir…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24-year-old founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion AI-focused fund unravel after excessive borrowing left him vulnerable when his bets faltered, forcing a fire sale to…
Blacksmith, a San Francisco developer tools startup, saw its valuation surge from $18.84 million to approximately $546 million in about a year, a roughly 29x increase, driven by AI-driven demand for faster CI pipelines. …
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who publicly dismissed AI-driven job loss predictions, invested in AI startup June through his Time Ventures vehicle, which raised $20 million in pre-seed funding on August 3, 2026, to automa…
Blacksmith, an AI code-testing startup founded in 2024, raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at $550 million, nearly 10 times its previous $60 million valuation from less than a year…
The AI industry is heading for an inevitable bubble, and the biggest losers will be mid-tier 'wrapper' startups that rely on APIs like GPT-4 and Claude, as well as companies that over-leveraged on GPU hardware, according…
SimpleX Chat, a private messaging network with over 400,000 users, is offering its users the chance to invest through a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) on Wefunder, with the first $450,000 receiving a $40 milli…
Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised $400 million in a Series C round at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its $6.6 billion valuation from its Series B in December. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and c…
Jordan Zietz, the 24-year-old founder of AI startup LemonLime, denied forcing anyone to get a tattoo for a job interview after his LinkedIn post sparked backlash. He told WIRED that no one permanently branded themselves …
Lovable raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation on August 12, led by Menlo Ventures alongside EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, with Business Insider reporting the valuation is more than doubl…
Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, announced on Wednesday a new funding round of $400 million, valuing the company at approximately $12.7 billion (127 billion Swedish kronor), nearly double its December 2025 valuation of $6.…
Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI software-building startup, has raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Menlo Ventures and EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, doubling its valuation to $13.3 billion from $6.6 billion in…
Coreweave's stock surged 18% in premarket trading after the AI cloud company reported second-quarter revenue that doubled year over year, driven by surging demand from hyperscalers. The company described the quarter as '…
River AI, founded by Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, less than four months after incorporation. The round also included Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinato…
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company valued at about $965 billion, is targeting a stock market debut in September or early October, according to The Wall Street Journal, in what could rival or surpass SpaceX's …
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has begun its pre-IPO tutoring process, hiring Citic Securities to guide preparations for a mainland China listing, with a mandatory tutoring period of at least three months that could lead …
Discovered Materials, founded by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, launched on August 12, 2026, with AI agents that propose new semiconductor materials and a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed with participation fro…
AI agent memory has become a crowded corner of AI infrastructure funding in 2025 and 2026, with startups like Letta, Mem0, and Zep building persistent memory systems on vector databases and retrieval to fix the stateless…
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has initiated its pre-IPO tutoring process for a mainland China listing, hiring Citic Securities to guide the preparation, according to a filing with China's securities regulator on Wednesda…